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!



Even the devil himself does not know where women sharpen their knives.	Latvian proverb

Even the devil himself does not know where women sharpen their knives.


No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle.	French proverb

No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle.


To engage in conflict, one does not bring a knife that cuts but a needle that sews.	Spanish proverb

To engage in conflict, one does not bring a knife that cuts but a needle that sews.

Gordon Graham

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

Rodney Dangerfield

One time a guy pulled a knife on me... I could tell it wasn’t a professional job — it had butter on it.

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