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 false friend’s tongue is sharper than a knife.	Argentinean proverb

A false friend’s tongue is sharper than a knife.


If the throat can grant passage to a knife, the anus should wonder how to expel it.	African proverb

If the throat can grant passage to a knife, the anus should wonder how to expel it.


When the ox is at the slaughterhouse everyone comes running with their knives.	German proverb

When the ox is at the slaughterhouse everyone comes running with their knives.

James Russell Lowell

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

The Holy Bible

Put a knife to thy throat, if you’re a man given to appetite.

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