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 false friend’s tongue is sharper than a knife.

In a golden sheath a leaden knife.

To engage in conflict, one does not bring a knife that cuts but a needle that sews.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit — Life!