Spent 45 minutes trying to slice a single onion before I noticed my knife was backwards

I was prepping for service the other night and this red onion just would not cut right. I kept struggling, thinking the blade was dull or something. After way too long I looked down and realized I had the knife turned around, using the spine side down. Idk how I missed it but my saute guy caught me and laughed for a solid minute. Has anyone else done something this dumb during prep?

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davis.noah25d ago

lol the "blade was dull" part got me because my buddy once spent 10 minutes trying to chop a bell pepper with the back of a chef's knife, swearing it was the worst knife he'd ever bought (it was a perfectly good Wusthof, he just had it backwards).

alex_nguyen25d ago

Haha I once used a steak knife to open a bag of flour and wondered why it wouldn't cut...