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!



As the camel falls to its knees, more knives are drawn.	Bedouin proverb

As the camel falls to its knees, more knives are drawn.


No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle.	French proverb

No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle.


Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers.	Spanish proverb

Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers.

Sam Snead

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.

Henry Glassford Bell

The damning tho’t stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, that she, whom all my life I’d loved, should be another’s wife.

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