Every time I go to cut food, I always get annoyed by the hand opening. I’m not always handling the board so much to need a hand hold. It’s always laying flat. The only time I need the hand hold is when I pick it up.
Then today, I realized … it’s a melee weapon.
If that thought seems novel to you, your homework for this weekend is to watch a few Jackie Chan movies.
Jackie Chan can turn any living space into a dojo and weapons room.
But you’re right, I should watch a Jackie Chan movie, it’s been years.
In winter, mostly preschool aged kids use these to slide down a snowy hill:
Used as you describe they’re just as dangerous. Hitting someone with the edge can do serious damage. And they do.Buy yourself a nicer board, without opening or those annoying grooves
I do have a nicer board … a big thick one I use most often.
I use several boards for different things … one specifically for meat … one for just garlic and onions … another for fruits … and a general one for everything else.
It’s the smaller cheaper ones that annoy me. I use them because they’re cheap and you use for a year or two and replace them easily. I just don’t understand why you need a handhold for a small cutting board. But today I was holding in my hand and just started playing around with it wrapping my fingers around the hand hold and I automatically started treating it like a weapon to push, pull, swing and hit things with.
I’ve also been gifted older type cutting boards that look like a paddle. These ones are definitely melee weapons.
They’re melee weapons … lol
The hole is for lining it up with the trash can and then sliding food into it
I’ve heard of that and I’ve seen that but I never do that.
I do quite a bit of my own cooking. I learned from my mom who worked in a commercial kitchen and I worked next to her for a few summers.
Every cutting board she had was just one large block with no holes. We’d cut tons of food and every time to needed to clear it, you pick it up and dump it into the sink or trash can. It’s just faster that way.
I never saw the use of taking a few extra moments to guide the board to the trash can, align it to the top of the can, then carefully move all the scraps to the hole.
A faster way is to just pick up the board, move it to the trash can, use the nonsharp end of your knife as a scraper and push everything off in one quick move.
My board is wider than the can. But I’m not sure about “that’s what the whole is for”. My board has a round hole like for a thumb. I find it useful for hanging it up to dry, after cleaning.
