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!


Caring for your knives

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.


Give your wife the short knife, and keep the long one for yourself.	Danish proverb

Give your wife the short knife, and keep the long one for yourself.


Man must be sharpened on man, like knife on stone.	African proverb

Man must be sharpened on man, like knife on stone.


The tongue like a sharp knife...Kills without drawing blood.	Arab proverb

The tongue like a sharp knife...Kills without drawing blood.

Sam Snead

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.

Hilary J. Bader

The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.

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