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 man without a knife, is a man without a life.	Faroese proverb

A man without a knife, is a man without a life.


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 you are pepper, I am mustard; when thou art a needle, I am a knife.	Bahumbu proverb

When you are pepper, I am mustard; when thou art a needle, I am a 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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