On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:05:05 -0700, sf > wrote:

>On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:31:38 +0100, "Ophelia" ku>
>wrote:
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>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> > I did look this up. Apparently at least for the Chef's knife, which is
>> > the large one, you are supposed to put your thumb and finger on either
>> > side of the blade itself. I will try this. Not sure this will work on a
>> > smaller knife though. But that woman chef did not do that. She had all
>> > of the fingers and thumb wrapped around the handle. And that just didn't
>> > work for me.
>>
>> I guess everyone will do what suits them best.
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>Just keep your knife sharp enough that you don't need to use your left
>hand to apply pressure when cutting, please.
>Accidents happen that way.

An accident, so that's how you happened... what a moroon... there are
many chores where both hands on a knife is advantageous and much
safer... there are even knives designed to be used with both hands,
and there are helper gadgets that one places on a blade so as to use
both hands.