avocado are loaded with healthy fats , but the stylish fruits beat a serious health jeopardy for home chef : As Konbini reports , emergency rooms in England are seeing an increase in knife - related hand injuries , all from people trying to prepare avocados . Surgeons chalk the phenomenon up to the food ’s fairly recent trendiness and have coined a nickname , " avocado hired hand , " for these types of wounds .
No prescribed stats exist just yet , butaccording toThe Times of London , a multitude of avocado - refer accident have led to " serious boldness and tendon injuries , requiring intricate surgical procedure . " Some patient role have even lost function in their hurt appendage .
On this side of the pond , according toThe New York Times , " the United States [ does n’t ] cart track kitchen injuries by ingredient , " so it ’s hard to know for sure how many people are being injure while prepping the fruit . That said , one Mental Floss editor program is all too familiar with the peril of avocados : " My beau once sliced opened his finger hear to pit an avocado , " she says . " A passel of line and a slip to Urgent Care afterward and he still ca n’t bend the finger fully . "
Things have gotten so out of , uh , hired hand in England ’s ER rooms that the British Association of Plastic , Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons is now admonish avocado fan about the safety risk . One observe credit card operating surgeon , Simon Eccles , even enjoin the yield need warning recording label .
" It needs to be recognisable , " Sir John Carew Eccles — who address an norm of four affected role a week for alligator pear - related accident — tellsThe Times . " Perhaps we could have a cartoon mental picture of an avocado with a tongue , and a big red crisscross going through it ? "
Avocados are tricky to prep , thanks to their oval shapes , hard pits , and pantry texture . Butto peel them , all one pauperization is a butter knife , or even a spoon — and judging from a bevy of gruesome ER pictures , many house chefs get knife - well-chosen , and use sharp blades to slice and cube the food .
In myopic , choose a piercing or serrated sword to cut a slippery , oblong fruit is definitely an avocadon’t . Some advice : manoeuver open of the chef knives the next time you ’re in the mood for avocado toast , and prefer for a crude tool . Your mitt ( and notecase — ER trip are expensive ) will give thanks you .
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