this man peeling cassava
  • 114 points kingtaco_17

    No look is great for basketball. But not the kitchen

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    11 points Roibeart_McLianain

    That's not true. You're supposed to be able to look away when using the knife. I'm not saying this guy is doing great. It looks wasteful and dangerous, but not constantly looking at your hands while chopping is not necessarily a bad thing. When you have proper knife skills, you won't be cutting yourself.

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    6 points Plenty-Reporter-9239

    Yeah but we are human and sometimes you mess up

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    3 points ronirocket

    To me it looks like he doesn’t want to see it when he messes up. As if he knows one day he’s going to take a whole finger off, and he knows that’s gonna be gross as hell, so he looks away every time to make sure he never sees it.

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  • 86 points [deleted]

    [deleted]

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    18 points dangledingle

    Franky Four Fingers *

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    10 points byebybuy

    Thaddeus Three Fingers

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    3 points Bearded_Toast

    Tommy Two Fingers

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    2 points jxncuch

    Sonny solo finger

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    2 points kungfungus

    Noah no fingers

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    2 points Gummy_Sama

    Hansel Handless

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    1 points Whiskey615

    Freddie Forearms

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    1 points Over_Ad9254

    Frank the shoulderman

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    1 points Montgraves

    Eddie Elbows

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    28 points sileplictis

    Currently

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    3 points Avia_NZ

    He’s going to go from 5 down to 0, real fast one day

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  • 41 points hivemind_disruptor

    This cassava variety has thick peel and the way to unpeel is to use force to separate from the root. So it doesn't need to be sharp, and most likely it is rather dull. At the end he uses the blade to actually chop, instead of slice.

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    10 points Grub-lord

    Would also make sense as to why he cuts so hard to chop the ends off. Assumed he was just messing around, but if it was a dull knife you'd need to chop harder

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  • 10 points Louisiana_sitar_club

    WATCH WHAT YOU’RE DOING

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  • 39 points [deleted]

    [deleted]

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    12 points Tjaeng

    Nah, Cassava contains enough toxic stuff that gets turned into cyanide in the body as it is (hence need for processing during cooking). Concentrations of that stuff is much higher in the skin and fibrous parts close to the skin, so it’s better to peel those off.

    The fibrous parts close to the outer skin layer always need to come off.. That part is not necessarily thinner on small cassava tubers (they can get huge, likeadult human-length) so not surprised it looks line he’s cutting off a lot.

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    8 points Adkit

    Unless only the middle part is useable. I have no clue what a cassava is so this video either impresses me or infuriates me.

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    5 points Versipilies

    Its a starchy vegetable used kind of like potato. Its generally boiled into a mash and/or powdered and turned into bread, pudding, boba tea pearls, etc. Most English speakers will probably know it as tapioca.

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  • 10 points showcase25

    The pay is not enough

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  • 6 points Nomad-2020

    So much water waste

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    13 points [deleted]

    If you're not in a desert or arid area, it's not wasted. I'm tired of people assuming stuff like this is wasted. It goes right back from where you fucking got it.

    Some people in this world have chosen to live in areas that aren't antithetical to normal life. The only consequence of using or "wasting" water in those areas is a higher water bill.

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    6 points Nomad-2020

    It goes right back from where you fucking got it.

    You mean the used water from the sewage system goes back to the water supply system as a tap water? Seriously?

    I only heard they do that in Singapore - and that's only because 1) Singapore has a severe drinking water shortage and 2) Singapore can afford the cost.

    And this video is probably not from Singapore lol

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    10 points [deleted]

    Sewage systems filter the water and return it to the source. You realize the water doesn't just disappear after going into the sewage system right?

    Edit: I'm not on a sewage system, I have a septic tank buried in my yard. Leach lines extend from it and allow everything to slowly Leach into the earth. The water then travels a couple hundred feet down into the aquifer. After 4-6 feet of dirt, it's clean enough to drink. My local aquifer feeds multiple springs that lead back into the river our water comes from. Y'know natural water processes.

    Every sewage system in the "first world" use dirt and charcoal to filter it clean and then return the water to the source.

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    2 points hike_me

    The sewage treatment system in my town dumps the treated water into the ocean, not the lake our drinking water comes from, so the treated water does not go back where it came from. This is super common.

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    5 points bigbutterbuffalo

    I mean then it just evaporates and reenters the water cycle

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    1 points hike_me

    Yes, but saying we can waste clean drinking water because it eventually “re-enters the water cycle” is disingenuous. Just because the water re-enters the water cycle doesn’t mean our reservoir is replenished in a timely fashion.

    We’ve had a drought for much of the past year and the lake our drinking water comes from has seen a significant drop in water level.

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    2 points bigbutterbuffalo

    Too much water being pulled out for corporate purposes and too many people increasing pop in area each generation. My local lake has a Musk data center draining it

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    2 points D0ctorGamer

    You ever heard of a well?

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  • 3 points Conscious_Owl6162

    I can’t type without looking at the keyboard, so this would leave me without fingers.

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  • 2 points Myst3ry13

    Don’t worry fingers grow back 😬😂

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  • 8 points IAMImportant

    oh look, a 1m old repost bot

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    3 points joker38

    Age is not measured with spacial units.

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    1 points IAMImportant

    yes

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    7 points Agronopolopogis

    I've never seen it

    .. but I've seen plenty of useless comments like these.

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    -8 points IAMImportant

    I didn't ask

    yes... bots are very useful.

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    5 points Agronopolopogis

    Brought me this video for the first time ¯\(ツ)/¯

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    -8 points IAMImportant

    I've seen plenty of useless comments like these.

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  • 2 points MisterBowTies

    "hey stubby how did you get your name?"

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  • 1 points Critical_Seat_1907

    I think he's done that before.

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  • 1 points EnvironmentalAide335

    What you can't see can't hurt you in action...

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  • 1 points ilfollevolo

    All it takes is one wrong cut

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  • 1 points BK_Mason

    “My cassava looks like it has a fingernail…”

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  • 1 points EnvironmentalBag6409

    That method wastes too many materials and is quite dangerous.
    It seems like almost 30% of usable materials are thrown away.
    The only thing worth mentioning is its speed.

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  • 1 points somethingsoddhere

    He’s using his palm as the guide

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  • 1 points SuchFudge1109

    This is dangerous

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  • 1 points Achylife

    One slip and those fingers are being peeled.

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  • 1 points orsare1983

    What a waste of water

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    1 points [deleted]

    If you're not in a desert or arid area, it's not wasted. I'm tired of people assuming stuff like this is wasted. It goes right back from where you fucking got it.

    Some people in this world have chosen to live in areas that aren't antithetical to normal life. The only consequence of using or "wasting" water in those areas is a higher water bill.

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  • 1 points Ok_Zookeepergame5148

    Do not try at home?

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  • 1 points Dark-Raven3620

    Dang, that prosthetic hand looks so real.

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  • 0 points Global-Ball6890

    Am I aroused by this? The way he looks at the camera he knows what he is doing

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  • -14 points LastChingachgook

    The fuck is cassava.

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    11 points Usernameistoshirt

    Looks like a tuber or root vegetable, I believe it's found in south america

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    6 points johnaross1990

    Tapioca

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    3 points ScootyJet

    Makes really excellent fries.

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    -2 points peapodbarry

    This 👆🏻

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    3 points Nomad_Gui

    Google how they harvest it, it's interesting.

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    5 points Agronopolopogis

    They couldn't be bothered to Google what it was to begin with..

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    -1 points LastChingachgook

    What’s the matter? I thought you were into petty condescension.

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    1 points Agronopolopogis

    Angry elf

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    -2 points LastChingachgook

    Bitter troll.

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    -2 points LastChingachgook

    I looked this up. Maybe you’ll find it useful. LOL

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  • 0 points [deleted]

    [deleted]

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    2 points SerpentBride

    The bandaid was holding the fingernail on, sir.

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  • -3 points AlternativeDue1958

    I’d love to see a white person do this!

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  • -2 points Few_Judge1188

    Fast but too much waste .

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