Grilled: 2008 Taste of the Nation

Gabriel Kreuther, The Modern

The worst kitchen injury you have witnessed?
Probably on myself when I was an apprentice. I sliced my finger on a slicer pretty deeply. The worst I have seen was pretty recently. A guy working at the restaurant put his whole finger in a little band saw. He was cutting through a bone and literally cut off his entire finger.

Did he return to your kitchen?
Yeah, he’s there. But he isn’t using the band saw anymore. [Laughs]