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  • DaveOPMA
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    7 months ago

    Sliced my finger wide open with a bread knife somehow. About 1.5cm long by over half a cm high, on the side of my index finger.

    In unrelated news, I made sourdough over the weekend! I used to do it semi-regularly pre-COVID but over COVID we couldn’t buy flour so were rationing what we had, then later I started using a cheats recipe for overnight sourdough buns (that had yeast in it to cheat). This is the first time I’ve made a real sourdough in probably over 4 years. It came out really good.

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      7 months ago

      Damn that sounds painful. I think our bread knife is the sharpest knife in the block. Use it to score the fat on pork belly as the teeth are great for getting through flesh.

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      7 months ago

      We just use a bread maker here, but I found using a sharp straight edge knife a lot better for cutting slices than the serrated knife. Granted our bread knife cost like $15 many years ago, so I’m not sure if more expensive ones are better.

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        7 months ago

        This was at someone else’s house with their bread knife, ours is a lot less sharp 😆. Though I’m convinced I chopped myself because the “flat” side of the knife is towards the hand instead of away from it, I commonly use the side of my finger to guide the knife, I don’t often cut myself so easily. So it must be a problem with the knife! 😅

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      7 months ago

      My 3yo asked me why I cut my finger on a knife. “You don’t hold this end” (gesturing at the air), “you hold this end where it’s not sharp”.

      Thanks, I could have done with that advice a little earlier.