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These 23 People Endured the Worst Kitchen Injuries

5.

I had a dollar store chefs knife go clean through an avocado pit and into my finger down to the bone.

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I once looked at a waitresses’ bum while slicing green onions. Chef knife went into my thumb at the top knuckle down to the bone: five stitches.

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At one restaurant, we cleaned the flat-top by pouring a skim of oil over it and scraping it with a charcoal brick while it was still hot. Cleaning the corners was an art form, because if you pushed that goddamn brick right to the edge, you’d squirt hot oil up your arm. Second degree burns to 50% of my forearm on two separate occasions.

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A knife went over the edge of the counter and fell. I think my mom knocked it over accidentally, but I put it near the edge. It went through the flesh under the calcaneus. I didn’t notice until I finished the step and heard the knife hit the floor. I put a band-aid on it and went to the county fair. I was 11 or something.

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i’m a line-cook and just last week I poured 350 degree oil all over my legs and ran outside while taking my pants off to jump into the snow bank.

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.