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!

Cheese wire

This is one of the best inexpensive tools you can buy, and it is carried in many supermarkets. Most have a plastic roller just below the wire, which can be easily removed. This leaves you with a wire on a handle, ideal for slicing very soft cheeses, such as goat and blue. Both of these cheeses tend to break and crumble if you try to cut them with a knife.

When you use the cheese wire, place your cheese on the corner of the cutting board. This will allow the wire to come down onto the board and cut through the cheese completely. This is because the wire is just below the top of the handle, and it wouldn’t otherwise cut entirely through the cheese.

Cutting goat cheese with a cheese wire
Cutting goat cheese with a cheese wire on the corner of a cutting board
How to Choose and Use Your Knives

How to Choose and Use Your Knives

How to Buy a Knife

How to Buy a Knife

Caring for Your Knives

Caring for Your Knives

Nonknife, Nonmotorized Sharp Kitchen Tools

Nonknife, Nonmotorized Sharp Kitchen Tools


All are not cooks who carry long knives. German proverb

All are not cooks who carry long knives.

German proverb


The blessed knife eats of the meat of the “kinandu”. Haitian proverb

The blessed knife eats of the meat of the “kinandu”.

Haitian proverb


Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers. Spanish proverb

Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers.

Spanish proverb

Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Hilary J. Bader

The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.

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