That moment I realized I'd been gripping my knife wrong for 8 years

I've been line cooking at this joint in Austin since 2016 and always had wrist pain after a double shift. Some random pastry chef walked by my station last Tuesday, watched me for like 30 seconds, and just said 'dude you're pinching your knife blade not choking up on the handle.' She showed me a proper pinch grip and now I can chop onions for three hours straight without my forearm screaming. How do you break a habit that feels natural but is secretly wrecking your body?

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janaw117d ago

Austin? 2016? I thought you were gonna say somewhere cool, not somewhere that's basically 100 degrees in a walk-in cooler for half the year. Eight years of knife pain and it took a random pastry chef two seconds to fix it? That's legit wild. My cousin worked at Franklin Barbecue for a summer and came home with a permanent callus on his middle finger from gripping his knife wrong. I bet that wrist pain is gone now though, right? Like a whole new world.

evangarcia7d ago

Whole new world" is spot on, I used to think grip didn't matter that much but that chef proved me dead wrong.