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.

God made hands before knives.

When the ox is at the slaughterhouse everyone comes running with their knives.
God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.