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!

Do not yell “dinner” until your knife is in the loaf.

One knife whets another.

The butcher looked for his knife and it was in his mouth.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
One time a guy pulled a knife on me... I could tell it wasn’t a professional job — it had butter on it.