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 false friend’s tongue is sharper than a knife.

Honey in his mouth, knives in his heart.

Wounds from the knife are healed, but not those from the tongue.
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.