Knife Skills —

a kitchen guide to using the right knife the right way

This site will give you the confidence to choose and use the knives and other nonelectric sharp tools in your kitchen. It’s also a reference site that you can use as you improve your skills and acquire the tools that will make you a better cook!



A knife-wound heals, but a tongue-wound festers.	Kurdish proverb

A knife-wound heals, but a tongue-wound festers.


God made hands before knives.	French proverb

God made hands before knives.


The butcher looked for his knife and it was in his mouth.	African proverb

The butcher looked for his knife and it was in his mouth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

Henry Glassford Bell

The damning tho’t stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, that she, whom all my life I’d loved, should be another’s wife.

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