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 and a shaving-knife are alike.	Bajan proverb

A knife and a shaving-knife are alike.


In a golden sheath a leaden knife.	Rwandan proverb

In a golden sheath a leaden knife.


When you take a knife away from a child, give him a piece of wood instead.	Turkish proverb

When you take a knife away from a child, give him a piece of wood instead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The Holy Bible

Put a knife to thy throat, if you’re a man given to appetite.

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