Kitchen Safety: Preventing Slips and Slices

Always use a serrated (with teeth) knife when chopping tomatoes or anything else remotely rounded or slippery!  I keep my Wustof knives fairly sharp, yet once a week somehow the knife slips and slices my fingers.  I do not need to illustrate this with a photo of my finger, nor do you wish to see one. Just trust me on this.

One of the steps I’m taking (more to come later) is resorting to using steak knives to cut tomatoes.  It pulls at the skin of the tomato more than I’d like, but the teeth on the knife are much less likely to slip or cut my fingers.

A serrated steak knife looks something like this:

(photo | adam mulligan)

And interestingly, Williams-Sonoma sells a Tomato Knife that looks like this:

One day I’ll learn better knife skills…but for now I’ll just find safer cutting devices!