Who cuts vegetables against their thumb?

[KenK]

I have to remind myself sometimes that it really is the fastest and best way for some things.

 

[MandyH]

I do. Two years ago I cut the tip of my ring finger off cutting corn on the cob so I switched lol.

 

[scratch'n'peck]

Yep, certain veggies.

 

[caspernc]

fung shway(SP) You are always supposed to cut towards your body and you will not get hurt.

Been around for a LONG time, and I do this and I never get cut unless I don't do it!

 

[arabianequine]

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I always heard to cut away from your body. So you don't cut your stomach or?

 

[Kudzu]

My wife

 

[BettyR]

I always use a cutting board...My son sharpens my knives on a belt grinder and keeps them scalpel sharp. If I tried that I wouldn't have any flesh left on my thumb.

He doesn't sharpen my steak knives so in a pinch I could use one for that.

 

[MeatKing]

always with the cutting bored.. Never towards me... But I am sure all my knives are "'Right Handed Knives" Since I"m left handed, I try to get hubbie to do most cutting up

 

[Beekissed]

Me...always have and never use a vegetable peeler either. Sometimes I cut myself merely because I have cut a groove deeper and deeper into my thumb and finally hit a soft spot past my callous.

 

[KenK]

I keep all my kitchen knives sharp enough to shave and the only cuts I've ever had, more than a minor nick here and there, were with a vegetable peeler and a grater. In both cases I took off most of a thumb nail and a lot of the goody underneath. Makes me queasy thinking about it now.