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 the devil himself does not know where women sharpen their knives.

Only the knife knows the heart of a pineapple.

When you take a knife away from a child, give him a piece of wood instead.
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.
Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit — Life!