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.

God made hands before knives.

To engage in conflict, one does not bring a knife that cuts but a needle that sews.
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
One time a guy pulled a knife on me... I could tell it wasn’t a professional job — it had butter on it.