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.



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

In a golden sheath a leaden knife.

Wounds from the knife are healed, but not those from the tongue.
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.