I have a pretty brutal scar and a loss of feeling in the tip of my left index finger from attempting to chop my finger off while cutting onions. My fingernails didn’t even factor into the equation. You got lucky! :P
I did the same thing once (except it was cutting an apple and it was using a butter knife) – it still managed to chop off the good part of my nail off though.
I did this once too. Was pretty dumb considering I was using my husbands brand new chefs knife. Damn thing is able to cut through bone so I was pretty lucky. Now I just use the vegetable or paring knives :P
I too stapled my finger not long back, with an electric nail gun (Ouchie) so you have my sympathy Jem. To add to the comment “So that’s what nails are for…” I think the answer has to be “To poke your eyes out with if you dare to make fun of my poor cut finger” hehe
Eeesh, gives you that sickly feeling when you know you’ve almost cut something off, eh?! At least you’re okay, though.
We recently bought an Onion Chopper which is a rather strange machine, but does the job okay. Alternatively just use a food processor (this requires less effort).
Katy said:
On 08 Sep at 10:56 pm
other uses include:
1. painting pretty colours
2. bogey extraction
3. scratching
Nellie said:
On 08 Sep at 11:13 pm
I have a pretty brutal scar and a loss of feeling in the tip of my left index finger from attempting to chop my finger off while cutting onions. My fingernails didn’t even factor into the equation. You got lucky! :P
Aaron said:
On 08 Sep at 11:26 pm
4. Biting while nervous/bored
Please be careful in the future. I’ve almost had that happen to me and it scared me for a while.
Kaytlin said:
On 08 Sep at 11:45 pm
*envisions hand with long fingernails, one of them chopped off bluntly*
Well, that is one circumstance they can come in handy!
Stephanie said:
On 09 Sep at 12:27 am
who needs biology when you can learn the functions of bodily systems in every day near-disasters? :D
Teesee said:
On 09 Sep at 12:57 am
I did the same thing once (except it was cutting an apple and it was using a butter knife) – it still managed to chop off the good part of my nail off though.
Vickie said:
On 09 Sep at 2:35 am
Or maybe we’re just not meant to cut onions! :O
Caasi said:
On 09 Sep at 3:15 am
I did this once too. Was pretty dumb considering I was using my husbands brand new chefs knife. Damn thing is able to cut through bone so I was pretty lucky. Now I just use the vegetable or paring knives :P
Jabed said:
On 09 Sep at 7:19 am
Nope, they are for stapling and punching holes through, don’t try it, bloody painful!
Mari said:
On 09 Sep at 8:05 am
We were almost telling the tale of nine-fingered Jem and the peculiar-shaped onion in the food…
</botched LOTR reference>
Seriously, you got lucky.
I’ve stapled through the pad of my thumb before. That’ll ruin your day.
Mumblies said:
On 09 Sep at 11:22 am
I too stapled my finger not long back, with an electric nail gun (Ouchie) so you have my sympathy Jem. To add to the comment “So that’s what nails are for…” I think the answer has to be “To poke your eyes out with if you dare to make fun of my poor cut finger” hehe
Dave said:
On 10 Sep at 7:05 am
Eeesh, gives you that sickly feeling when you know you’ve almost cut something off, eh?! At least you’re okay, though.
We recently bought an Onion Chopper which is a rather strange machine, but does the job okay. Alternatively just use a food processor (this requires less effort).
Dizzy said:
On 10 Sep at 1:47 pm
That’s creepy! O_O;;;
Maggie said:
On 10 Sep at 2:47 pm
Hehe.. lol, I was actually expecting not such a short entry.. it amused me. :)
I cut two of my fingers a couple of weeks back.. damn, it hurt! And wouldn’t stop bleeding!! T_T
Fingernails are indeed quite handy~
Erin said:
On 10 Sep at 3:58 pm
Yikes. Being domesticated is totally dangerous work.
Chris said:
On 18 Sep at 12:05 am
I knew they had some purpose…
If only I had discovered it before biting all mine to stumps!