Avocado Hand

[LovelyBath77]

Apparently people are injuring themselves cutting their hands when opening an avocado, and this is becoming common. I mean how hard is to to cut an avocado, carefully, and prise the stone out with a spoon?

I've never injured myself slicing an avocado and I eat one daily. I did anyway and now I'm pregnant my mum and MIL can't stop throwing them at me.

You just place it down and cut it in half.

I halve all my potatoes in the palm of my hand. I didn't think anything of it until I saw my visiting friend wincing at every cut!

I always sling a sharp knife straight into the stone and it comes clean out. Never cut myself and all digits remain.

All these novice avocado eaters.

Only works on a fairly ripe avocado homity, squeeze the avocado and kind of prise it out with the other hand

Good grief Penelope why on earth would you do that? You must have pretty blunt knives!

I've done this. I'm not stupid, or middle class (just greedy).
It isn't the machete-ing of the stone that does it, it's the twisting to release it, when the avocado is riper than you previously thought.

Whenever I use a spoon, the poor avocado ends up bludgeoned and only fit for guacamole (which is also delicious, to be fair).

Twas only a little nick though, definitely not a&e worthy.

Also, I once separated frozen burgers with a fork, and drove the fucker right into the palm of my hand. Now that smarted.

I chopped the tip of my finger off when I used my spiralizer without the safety guard - now that was stupid!

I have never had an avocado-related injury (that I can remember anyway) as I just scoop the stone out with my fingers and then lick them

I have, however, sliced off a chunk of flesh near the knuckle on my thumb when using a cheese slicer.

Good grief Penelope why on earth would you do that? shock You must have pretty blunt knives!
Ha ha! Actually, the opposite. DH loves very sharp knives. I'm 'discouraged' from cutting things on plates and blunting the knives. It might have started because I'm lazy and don't want to keep washing our very heavy chopping board. I can't really remember. But after reading about these injuries I think I'll find a new method buy a light chopping board

I nearly cut my hand in half, from the palm side, washing up a cake knife after a stressful kids Birthday party. It cut my hand like butter but the cake was nothing but crumbs.
It bled for months, lovely.

Does no one else get hold of the stone with their teeth? Pops right out!