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.



Even if a knife is made of silver, a person won’t stab his own heart with it.

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

Under a gold sheath a leaden knife.
God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.
The damning tho’t stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, that she, whom all my life I’d loved, should be another’s wife.