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!

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A knife and a shaving-knife are alike. Bajan proverb

A knife and a shaving-knife are alike.

Bajan proverb


No matter how sharp a knife is, it can never cut its handle. Chinese proverb

No matter how sharp a knife is, it can never cut its handle.

Chinese proverb


The butcher looked for his knife and it was in his mouth. African proverb

The butcher looked for his knife and it was in his mouth.

African proverb

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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