Chef Injuries No.3...beware of the grater !

OK its a beetroot reconstruction not blood as I could not stomach taking a picture at the actual accident scene as it was too horrific ! but you get the point. Graters are dangerous..!!! well in the wrong hands ! ha ha !

OK your in the kitchen you have just turned 25kg of potatoes with a highly dangerous turning knife, you have just chopped 16kg of carrots with a blade that was too sharp to use in a Quentin Tarantino movie and you have just danced with 30 pieces of battered haddock over a deep hot fryer over lunch service. I am sure you will agree that all those things are living in the hard and fast culinary kitchen danger zone !
So you then move onto using the grater where you think you have reached a safe point ! Not so ! while grating a piece of Truffle for a soup garnish, Senior Sous Chef Mark took his eye of the ball for a Milly second as he eyed up his girlfriend as she walked into the kitchen and bam he managed to grate his finger and obliterate his nail ! Ouch ! to be fair when she walked in I took me eye of the ball to but I was only eating a Chip butty at the time and all I got was Ketchup down my apron ! ha ha !
I was going to start another blog series called Chefs with silly bandages but I thought that might trivialise what I think is highlighting a very dangerous piece of kit. You look at the picture of Mark and you can decide. Ha Ha !