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!



Fools and knives require good handling.	Japanese proverb

Fools and knives require good handling.


Man must be sharpened on man, like knife on stone.	African proverb

Man must be sharpened on man, like knife on stone.


The village, which has got a whetstone, does not blunt the knife.	Tswana proverb

The village, which has got a whetstone, does not blunt the knife.

Gordon Graham

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

Stanislaw Lem

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

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