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 child who fears beating, would never admit that he played with a missing knife.	Nigerian proverb

A child who fears beating, would never admit that he played with a missing knife.


No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle.	French proverb

No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle.


The fool cuts himself with his own knife.	Kikuyu proverb

The fool cuts himself with his own knife.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The Holy Bible

Put a knife to thy throat, if you’re a man given to appetite.

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