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Water cooled knife sharpening system 🔪 - Source: @tormek_sharpening

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The family that chops together ...Hops together? 🤔😜

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Simon cuts sweet potatoes for supper 🔪

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Cutting up the quesadilla she made herself for lunch. 🍴 If you haven't checked out today's post featuring the knives she is using these days it's linked in my profile.

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Lunch prep: cutting up cucumbers to dip in the hummus we just made 😊

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Charlotte had a knife incident today. I recently introduced this knife, so it's brand new (and therefore sharp), and admittedly I haven't given her a proper lesson on how to use it. She was peeling cucumbers (see previous post) and she really wanted to use her new knife to cut them up. I told her she could and reminded her that it was sharp. I was busy making hummus, which, looking back I should have stopped and modeled and supervised more closely. Not 3 seconds after I gave her the knife she was crying. She came to me with a small but bleeding cut on her finger. For some reason in these scenarios I can be quite uncharacteristically calm and thankfully today was one of those times. I helped her rinse it and held it in a paper towel until I could get the bandage wrapped around it. My calm must have been contagious because she become very matter-of-fact after we got it bandaged up. She typically would have been in hysteria but she was so relaxed. "It hurt for just a little bit but now I'm okay." She explained that she had run her finger along the blade and I inferred that she was testing if it was sharp. She certainly found out. In hindsight I definitely would have done a better introduction with the new knife - absolutely. But what happened today was a valuable experience as well. She learned firsthand that knives can be sharp and the consequences of touching a blade. I had practice in keeping my cool in a scenario when she needed me to be an anchor. I also had a lesson the consequences of letting a child loose without a proper lesson. So would I change it? I'm not sure I would.

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Charlotte peels the cucumbers for lunch