mm bruschetta

[dragonlady7]

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i made the sourdough ciabatta left over from last week into bruschetta tonight which was great except the part where I cut myself with the fucking breadknife

anyway i have a friend who’s a doctor and he says if you’re ever kidnapped and they’re like “we’re gonna cut off one of your fingers and send it with the ransom note” the finger you should ask them to cut off is your index finger because you don’t need it so I feel totally fine about this knife injury

yeah you need your pinkies for grip strength, but forefinger? nah your middle finger can do it just fine.

so NO PROBLEM

Comments

[conuly]

Wait, your doctor friend says that pinkies are more important than the point finger? Huh.

[dragonlady7]

Yeah. He says the pinkie is really crucial for grip strength, but in cases where a patient loses the index finger, with minimal PT they can adapt and just seamlessly use the middle finger in its place; it opposes the thumb just as dextrously and generally there's little to no loss of function.
IDK about keyboards but I can see how that'd be true, I can reach most of the relevant keys with the other index finger, but the little stuff I hit with my pinkies would be a real pain to manage with the super-useless ring finger.
(Which, apparently, is also crucial for grip strength, so you really don't want to lose it.)