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!
I have one simple rule for caring for knives: if you treat them well, they’ll treat you well. And by treating you well, that means that they’ll last for many years. My primary knives are over 20 years old, and should be going strong for many more years. You can get the same mileage out of yours by paying attention to how you wash, store, and use your knives.


A knife does not know who is its master.

Only a knife can best tell a child when to leave it.

When you take a knife away from a child, give him a piece of wood instead.
God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.
One time a guy pulled a knife on me... I could tell it wasn’t a professional job — it had butter on it.