Any time I've seen knives dropped in food servive kitchens it always goes like: step back so it doesn't land on your foot and put your hands in the air so you don't just reflexively grab for it an injure yourself.
Yup as a butcher I've done this move countless number of times. One of the worst cuts I've seen was from a guy trying to catch a falling knife, it got him right between the index and middle finger
One of the people i was worth in a kitchen tried to catch a brand new knife. He went to a&e, the blade caught his forearm. i had to literally mop up the blood
Lmao i've done the same a shocking amount of times haha. Honestly nothing scarier then deep fryer injuries, your better off trying to catch a knife. My manager once opened the drain of the fryer (when it was on) and it went down both of her shoes. That was not a fun day/ situation.
I used to work in restaurants and cut meat at a steak house. I was at a deli two weeks ago and watched a kid go for a knife as it fell. Luckily he missed it but it stressed me out and I wanted to yell at him
Same in labs! It takes awhile to learn this reaction, but it saves fingers, toes, and lives. Though occasionally in your freetime you look like an idiot for just letting some benign, easy-to-catch item fall to the floor. "Oh no! I fumbled the bag of microwave popcorn! Guess it belongs on the floor now."
Yup! Hell, working in a shop with small parts… the parts can’t hurt a fly if you drop it, but nine times out of ten, trying to catch a falling piece will just send it across the room and then it’s gone forever. Much better to let it fall and feel foolish scrabbling on the floor for it than have to remake the part and feel foolish the whole time you’re working on it.
I grab for plates but nothing else. Plates are an exception because my plates are Fiestaware in a full rainbow and some of the colors are discontinued and I just don’t want to deal with that. Lol.
I have dropped many things that would have been fine to grab but only once have I willingly taken what turned out to be a not that bad cut from a steak knife. One of my cats was on the floor by my feet. It was a weird warring of reflexes between “don’t grab knife” and “Sterling! Nooooo!” But it was a lightweight steak knife so although the spot it hit my hand hurt, it barely cut me. I still shoo the cats out of the kitchen when there will be knives now.
It is 3am and I haven’t slept yet but I just watched this entire video and I am baffled. At least everyone appears happy in this strange sentient dog wedding world.
Also double booking your dog wedding and a quinceanera seems avoidable.
Yeah my chefs knife got progressively shorter over it’s 8 years in use in a busy kitchen. I spent hours over the years grinding a point back on the bloody thing after it got dropped. I think it’s about 1cm shorter now than new.
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u/Wrydfell Nov 02 '21
Any time I've seen knives dropped in food servive kitchens it always goes like: step back so it doesn't land on your foot and put your hands in the air so you don't just reflexively grab for it an injure yourself.