Whether it is an ax, hatchet, or knife, many people just have never learned how to use anything that is sharp properly and safely. To the video’s credit, they at least showed a way of using a knife.
I have sliced myself in the kitchen three times, and it’s always been when cutting vegetables. I may very well slice bagels more often than vegetables, and I can’t imagine hurting myself on a bagel. The difference is you make ONE cut through a bagel, vs a few dozen on an onion, pepper, carrot, celery, etc. It’s easy to become distracted when you’re making a few dozen cuts through several pieces of vegetable. One, two, or even a dozen bagels, I’m still careful.
Personally, I hold the bagel vertical on the cutting board, hand above the knife and on the outside of the bagel, and cut through, trying to keep the cut in the center. I’ve never come close to taking off a piece of flesh. I don’t see how, with proper technique, slicing a bagel can be as dangerous as they say in the article.
I think that it would be more sporting to give the bagel better odds.
How’s about tossin’ the sucker in the air and takin’ a swipe at it with a machete?
When my wife gets out her new knife for food preparation, I leave the room. I don’t want to think about it.
I use my Katana, a machete is too wide and drags through the bagel. The Katana makes a nice smooth slice, I just can’t seem to get the two halves even which presents a problem in the toaster.
I cut bagels into four thin slices using a thin-bladed knife with a serrated edge and an identical bevel on both sides of the blade (not a steak knife). I lay the bagel flat on a plate and cut around the bagel, one side at a time, turning the bagel until the cuts meet. With thin slices the toasted bagel is like bagel chips.
Are you using one of those fancy Serrated Bread Katanas?
I’m using the famous Solingen Wüsthof Katanas, very rare. I keep a nakiri bocho in my left hand in case I miss, at which point I chop the bagel in to little bits and make bagel chips out of it.
I give the bagle a stake knife. - its honourable combat if the opponant is armed and dilishous.
Cutting bagels is very dangerous. One of the most dangerous kitchen activities I have encountered, in fact. I have sliced myself several times, twice on the foot by dropping the knife.
Edge tools, edge tools… don’t play with them.
No worries here, I still have all four corners on my tote’n chip so I know what I’m doing.
Flailing bagel knives would be a problem for this gal:
Sorry, I just had to post it. They run her show on our public access channel, unblurred and uncensored, through some loophole in the local access rules. Morbidly fascinating and quickly unstimulating after initial shock.