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 desperate person will even hold on to a knife edge.	Filipino proverb

A desperate person will even hold on to a knife edge.


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.


The mother is she who catches the knife by the blade.	French proverb

The mother is she who catches the knife by the blade.

Katharine Hepburn

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

Stephen King

Obession is dangerous. It’s like a knife in the mind. In some cases... the knife can turn savagely upon the person wielding it... You use the knife carefully, because you know it doesn’t care who it cuts.

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