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-wound heals, but a tongue-wound festers.

One knife keeps another in its sheath.

Wounds from the knife are healed, but not those from the tongue.
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and pruning knife.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.