WARNING: Not for the faint hearted! Kitchens can be scary places and a chef's job is pretty dangerous sometimes! We asked you to share your kitchen injury stories and chef accidents on social media and now we feel a bit queasy ourselves...

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Mikey Andrew Barrett:

"I was filleting halibut as I'm nearly finished the waitress walks in and shouts "that's your coffee!".. making me jump and my knife slipped . I was the only chef on that day so I had to continue my shift, changing my bandages every 5 minutes. After my 12 hour shift, I went to A&E where I found out I had caused a lot of nerve damage and even split an artery, hence why I bled for so long . Ended up getting an adrenaline injection directly in my wound which hurt like hell . I was sent home and was signed of for a month. Thumb is all healed now though!"

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Jacob Tarring:

Tried to catch a falling knife. Severed 2 tendons in my hand. The weird thing is, it didn't hurt.

Mark West:

"I was on a busy Saturday prepping for a bistro night & went over towards the pan bash area & slipped on a wet floor with my right arm totally submerged in a 5 foot high stock pot on a gas burner bubbling away! A trip to hospital, 1st degree burns from hand to bicep, a month off work, daily trips to hospital, thousands of blisters appearing every day after gelanet was taken off was not good! I've lost most of the freckles on my right arm in the process & my right arm always burns first in the sun, even with factor 50 on. No wet floor sign up too! The classic mistake. In hindsight having a sink area next to a massive stock pot on a single gas burner was not the best health & safety practice ever!..."

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Alex James Standen:

"Good Friday this year, walking round to put something in rational slip on dropped food item, put my arm out to catch myself and put it straight down on top of stove. Fun times."

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Laura Claridge:

On a Sunday, headed to work early, after a cheeky Saturday night out, feeling miserable. I was slicing away on the meat slicer, last job, 20kgs of fennel on 3mm thick. On my 3rd last fennel, my left thumb slipped off the guard and went straight across the blade. I bandaged it up. found my piece of thumb in the fennel, threw it out and washed the blade. I carried on slicing the last 2 fennel, tubbed it up, labelled & dated it and put it away. Knocked off, went to after hours, bandaged it up, it was 'all good'... I went back two days later as the first doctor had put the wrong dressing on it and it had gotten infected so it had to all be ripped back open, cleaned and bandaged again. I had a week off work and I still don't have all that much feeling in my thumb..."

+6Alex Warren:

"I slipped on a wet floor and my left hand went through a faulty guard and straight into a dough mixer.  I had a shattered thumb, 4 smashed bones on the back of my hand and muscle and nerve damage.  After 2 operations and 6 months off work, I still lost 30% of use in my hand. The surgeons said I'd never be a chef again, physiotherapists said I'd never be a chef again... I proved them all wrong."

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