knife safety
Careful cutting practices
Knife safety refers to practices that prevent injury when handling knives—keeping blades sharp (dull knives slip), cutting away from the body, storing knives properly, and never catching a falling knife.
The term appears most often in culinary education and workplace training: We covered knife safety on the first day of cooking class.
- sharpFine-edged, or astute
- sharp edgeHoned cutting surface
- bladeFlat cutting edge
- cuttingDividing via sharp edge
- cutting boardSurface for slicing food
handle · finger guard · grip · fingers · blood · wound · slice · careful · away · toward · guard · sheath · storage · dull · accident · edge · control · chopping
- knife skillspinch grip, claw grip, chopping, slicing, dicing
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- Outdoor Safetyfirst aid kit, emergency whistle, bear spray, survival kit, emergency beacon
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