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.



All are not cooks who carry long knives.

If fate throws a knife at you, there are two ways of catching it: by the blade or by the handle.

The whetstone in a village does no blunt the knife.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.