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!



Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork. 	English proverb

Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork.


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

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


The tongue like a sharp knife...Kills without drawing blood.	Arab proverb

The tongue like a sharp knife...Kills without drawing blood.

James Russell Lowell

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Charles Buxton

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

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