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.

Man must be sharpened on man, like knife on stone.

Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers.
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.
One time a guy pulled a knife on me... I could tell it wasn’t a professional job — it had butter on it.