Keep your knives sharp and use them correctly:

Aside from pots and pans, knives are the most important tools in a kitchen in which any cooking beyond heating canned soups is being done. Treat them with care and use them correctly, and there’s no need to ever spill your own blood upon the counter and thus be forced into a phase of light blogging!

There is more courtesy of Jaquandor who write’s after reading about Jim Capozzola’s knife work.