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 if a knife is made of silver, a person won’t stab his own heart with it.

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

Under a gold sheath a leaden knife.
He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.