Yes; Ciro actually observed while waiting to get stitched up that this could have all been avoided if he'd just used the food processor. (I then observed all kind of other ways it might not have happened, like if the previous night we'd run out of an essential ingredient and had decided to go out to eat, and may have invoked the gods in some of these explanations.)

Good tip on the Japanese mandoline; many thanks. The French ones have indeed struck me as terrifying and/or faffy.