6 hours ago, rarerollingobject said:But the impressive part of all that is that even despite losing a significant portion of my fingertip to the mandoline when slicing the pears and bleeding non stop for five hours and eventually requiring proper medical attention, I still managed to get my eyeliner on more or less straight the next day, bloodied stump notwithstanding. This is my bandaged mandoline stump.
Is a serious mandoline injury the sign of a TRUE eGulleter?
Yup. Five hours of prep with a chunk out of your finger is officially hardcore.
I took a serious chunk out of a finger one night during service, when I was working alone and had nobody to cover for me. Fortunately one of the in-laws of the building's owner was an RN, and had me bandaged up in a trice (and I only needed to throw out about 1/2 cup of vegetables, because I had the foresight to injure myself on about the fifth stroke of the mando).
The irony is that I *was* using the hand-guard...I was taking round slices from the end of something or other (I forget if it was a carrot or a zucchini, but that's immaterial) and the veg caught on the lip at the top of the mando because I'd pulled it too far back. The little finger of the hand holding the hand-guard slammed into the blade, and a slice almost 1/4" (1/2 cm) in diameter got left behind. It healed up well enough, but it was almost 2 years before I got back the feeling in that fingertip.
