I've got this nifty cheese grater
It's pretty cool.. has a large and small blade for shredding cheese.. so I can do it at the dinner table right onto my food.
I want to get a food processor though.. just haven't gotten one yet.
Also, may want to go get that thumb stitched up by a doctor.
Okay this is seriously gross
So I was washing my cheese grater thingy and the plastic top came off and I was trying to force it back on and my hand slipped. My thumb slid across one of the surfaces -really- hard and I took off a fair amount of skin from my first two fingers but OMG my thumb is fucking bleeding like a stuck pig and it looks just straight up gorry.
I nearly fainted, and yes, I'm a lightweight and I've cut myself way worse but I can't even describe the horror!
Yes, I'm a gigantic baby. I do kind of wish I had a tape recorder because I cursed for like ten minutes straight and some of those were pretty impressive swears.
So. Gross.
*holds out thumb* So who wants to kiss it better first! Don't worry, it's got two bandaids on it now...ew, the blood's still soaking through...ewewewew...
Su-Chen Ling
18 years ago
Ginnie
18 years ago
Yes, but you see Rachyl I don't care how cost effective it is. I'm not fucking shredding four cups of cheese by hand, and my little food precessor is for salasa and..and...and salsa.
Amberelle DeEspionne
18 years ago
I'm with Roz... cooking is overrated. I don't own a cheese shredder or a food processor.. If I do actually make something at home, a bag o cheese is the way to go!
Aishe
18 years ago
homemade cooking is the only way to go! I'm making homemade chicken soup now, as a matter of fact. My grandma's recipe. Hers was the best!
Thaddeus Grey
18 years ago
You know, I wasn't even grating cheese with it :. I was grating hard boiled eggs.
Fozz, sensitive man that he is, saw that I had been cut and immediately looked to the egg salad bowl to make sure I hadn't ruined it.
*injured sniff*
Fozz, sensitive man that he is, saw that I had been cut and immediately looked to the egg salad bowl to make sure I hadn't ruined it.
*injured sniff*
Aishe
18 years ago
LOL. Oh, just like a man.
Is it any better today? Mind you, I'm still not gonna kiss it, but I suppose I could dirve up there and administer first aid if necessary.
Is it any better today? Mind you, I'm still not gonna kiss it, but I suppose I could dirve up there and administer first aid if necessary.
Alexandra
18 years ago
Nothing like home made cooking for me too, I love to cook *nods*
Hope it's a bit better for you now hun and the bleeding has stoped, if not go see a doctor it could get infected and that will realllly hurt
Hope it's a bit better for you now hun and the bleeding has stoped, if not go see a doctor it could get infected and that will realllly hurt
Ginnie
18 years ago
I use a pastry cutter to make egg salad I use a pastry cutter They call it a doughblender, but it's the same thing. It works really well and it's much easier to clean than an egg slicer or cheese grater and much faster than a knife.
Hooray for multifunction tools. I'm with Alton Brown on that one, why own something if it only does one job?
Hooray for multifunction tools. I'm with Alton Brown on that one, why own something if it only does one job?
Nyra
18 years ago
Sorry to hear you got hurt! Hope it feels better soon
Simple solution: Go Vegan!
I love to cook and eat. But I am very very very carefull in cleaning and chopping. I nearly hacked off the tip of my left index finger when I was a teenager. *nods* Not fun!
Simple solution: Go Vegan!
I love to cook and eat. But I am very very very carefull in cleaning and chopping. I nearly hacked off the tip of my left index finger when I was a teenager. *nods* Not fun!
Thaddeus Grey
18 years ago
Yeah, it's better today; still wants to bleed a little bit and looks absolutely horrifying but it only hurts a little now.
Su-Chen Ling
18 years ago
Hehe.. well.. if any of ya'll are near by, come on over. I plan to make Shrimp Enchilliada's for dinner.. my specialty.. an experimeng gone totally good... I drool just THINKING about it.
Alec Devereaux
18 years ago
The blood is the best part of egg salad! He doesn't know what he's missing.
Feel better - cheese grater cuts are a bummer. Can't really get them stitched and they can sometimes leave divots for awhile. Nipped the blade edge of my hand on an industrial one when I used to work in a kitchen as a teenager. Good times! The hand helds hurt a lot more, incidentally. Sorry.
And yeah, we're a gourmet crew here...by "crew," I mean "me," generally. Tonight was going to be fajita night but I got lazy and opted for burrito night, tomorrow I'm thinking habanero marinade for the burgers - didn't use all of the salsa, onion and peppers tonight, so I'll have to figure out something for those peppers. Yum! Friday I don't cook, so I better figure it out soon. :P
Heal up!
Feel better - cheese grater cuts are a bummer. Can't really get them stitched and they can sometimes leave divots for awhile. Nipped the blade edge of my hand on an industrial one when I used to work in a kitchen as a teenager. Good times! The hand helds hurt a lot more, incidentally. Sorry.
And yeah, we're a gourmet crew here...by "crew," I mean "me," generally. Tonight was going to be fajita night but I got lazy and opted for burrito night, tomorrow I'm thinking habanero marinade for the burgers - didn't use all of the salsa, onion and peppers tonight, so I'll have to figure out something for those peppers. Yum! Friday I don't cook, so I better figure it out soon. :P
Heal up!
Fallon
18 years ago
I use the cheese grater for hard boiled eggs too...but I hold them in the palm of my hand.
When my daughter was nine, I had just got a new set of knives...that she knew she wasn't supposed to use. *sigh* Got a call at work from our landlord...came home to a kid with a bandaged hand, and took her straight to the doctor. Eleven stitches later, I took her home, went into the bathroom where she had tried to take care of things herself, and I almost fainted. It looked like a pig had been slaughtered there!
Thank god I took her to the doctor first... She had cut into the skin between her thumb and forefinger...I still get queasy when I think about it.
When my daughter was nine, I had just got a new set of knives...that she knew she wasn't supposed to use. *sigh* Got a call at work from our landlord...came home to a kid with a bandaged hand, and took her straight to the doctor. Eleven stitches later, I took her home, went into the bathroom where she had tried to take care of things herself, and I almost fainted. It looked like a pig had been slaughtered there!
Thank god I took her to the doctor first... She had cut into the skin between her thumb and forefinger...I still get queasy when I think about it.
Milazo
18 years ago
You know what cube steaks are? Well the machine that makes those tried to eat my index and middle fingers on my right hand once. That was not pleasant. Got 7 weeks off work with full workman's comp though!
And I will forever be leery of homemade carrot cake, as well. O_o
And I will forever be leery of homemade carrot cake, as well. O_o
Thaddeus Grey
18 years ago
My father in law cut his finger clean off in some sort of printed circuit board making machine. Suppose I have no right to complain but good lord this is an ugly ouchie.
Sad thing is that I didn't even hurt myself making anything, was just trying to clean it.. I'm really careful with the grater because just thinking about cutting myself on it squicks me out really bad, then I go and do something like that while trying to put it back together .
Sad thing is that I didn't even hurt myself making anything, was just trying to clean it.
. I'm really careful with the grater because just thinking about cutting myself on it squicks me out really bad, then I go and do something like that while trying to put it back together .
Mathias
18 years ago
squick?
Cyrus
18 years ago
I have a great uncle who worked in a machine shop his whole life. I think there are over three missing fingertips. Some from the first knuckle and one from the second.
yeah, let me just say, keep yer fingers safe!
yeah, let me just say, keep yer fingers safe!
Ginnie
18 years ago
I sliced my finger while cutting cheese cakes once. Does that count as a really bad work related accident? Ok good. Cause I ruined three cakes. (I worked for a Cheese cake bakery when my daughter was two-ish.) I pulled the knife from the cake, and my finger was in the wrong spot, I jerked and spun flinging blood on the two other cakes on my table. It was very gross.
I hope your finger gets better soon. *huggle*
I hope your finger gets better soon. *huggle*
Simon Huntington
18 years ago
I caught a bullet with only an oven mitt and a cheese grater once. Really. I SWEAR!
Shay
18 years ago
o.O