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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Do not yell “dinner” until your knife is in the loaf. Canadian proverb

Do not yell “dinner” until your knife is in the loaf.

Canadian proverb


It is a surprise that the cock should hold a grudge against the pot, instead of the knife that killed it. Italian proverb

It is a surprise that the cock should hold a grudge against the pot, instead of the knife that killed it.

Italian proverb


Under a gold sheath a leaden knife. Bajan proverb

Under a gold sheath a leaden knife.

Bajan proverb

James Russell Lowell

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Emily Dickinson

Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit — Life!

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