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!



All are not cooks who carry long knives.	German proverb

All are not cooks who carry long knives.


The blessed knife eats of the meat of the “kinandu”.	Haitian proverb

The blessed knife eats of the meat of the “kinandu”.


The whetstone in a village does no blunt the knife.	Chinese proverb

The whetstone in a village does no blunt the knife.

Sam Snead

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

John Owen

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his), poison, his exercise or his destruction.

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