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!

Mini chopper

A mini chopper is a small version of a huge food processor, such as those made by Cuisinart, Robot Coupe, Viking, KitchenAid, and others. The vast majority of mini choppers are electric, just like their larger versions. Except the veggie chopper from Chef’n, which is not electric. This one has a pull string like a salad spinner, which spins the blades. It has a big ring at the top to pull the string, which is why some people call it the lawn mower chopper. It pulls just as though you were starting a lawn mower.

The mini chopper’s advantage is its clever design. It has three very sharp blades. It’s perfect for those tasks involving cutting smaller foods in larger quantities. It’s great for chopping or mincing a bulb of garlic, an onion, or even chopping peanuts for your favorite pad Thai recipe.

Mandoline

Tomato shark

Cutting by the tongue is different from cutting by the knife.

Teaching a monkey to eat with a fork and knife will never make it a man.

Under a gold sheath a leaden knife.

Tad Williams

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

Emily Dickinson

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

Knife Skills —

a kitchen guide to using the right knife the right way

Mini chopper

Tad Williams

Emily Dickinson