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!



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

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


One knife will not cut another knife; one cheat will not cheat another cheat.	Italian proverb

One knife will not cut another knife; one cheat will not cheat another cheat.


The village, which has got a whetstone, does not blunt the knife.	Tswana proverb

The village, which has got a whetstone, does not blunt the knife.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Emily Dickinson

Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit — Life!

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