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 mountain of knives and a sea of fire.	Chinese proverb

A mountain of knives and a sea of fire.


He makes a hundred knives, none of which has a handle.	Arabic proverb

He makes a hundred knives, none of which has a handle.


The knife that has been lent, never comes back alone.	Romanian proverb

The knife that has been lent, never comes back alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Stephen King

Obession is dangerous. It’s like a knife in the mind. In some cases... the knife can turn savagely upon the person wielding it... You use the knife carefully, because you know it doesn’t care who it cuts.

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