INCIDENT Mandolines, the paddle-like slicers are good for turning potatoes into French fries, cabbage into coleslaw, zucchini into noodles and a block of cheese into a spaghetti condiment. They’re also good at turning hands into thumb less, blood-gushing appendages. It’s unlikely that mandolines alone are to blame but emergency rooms are seeing more and more kitchen wounds. The number of patients injured by slicers or choppers nearly doubled between 2001 and 2011, when an estimated 21,699 people sought treatment for cuts, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.  NEED TO KNOW To glove or not to glove - that is the question!!! BUSINESS / REGULATIONS Martha […]