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!
Many kitchen tools aren’t knives but are still very sharp. These can be just as valuable, but unlike knives, are often just task-specific. Over time, as you cook more, you’ll buy these as you need them.



A knife and a shaving-knife are alike.

One knife will not cut another knife; one cheat will not cheat another cheat.

To start a fight, one does not bring a knife that cuts but a needle that sews.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his), poison, his exercise or his destruction.