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 bad knife cuts one’s finger instead of the stick.	Portuguese proverb

A bad knife cuts one’s finger instead of the stick.


Only a knife can best tell a child when to leave it.	German proverb

Only a knife can best tell a child when to leave it.


When the ox just stumbles, they all sharpen their knives.	Bahamian proverb

When the ox just stumbles, they all sharpen their knives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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