Knife Skills —

a kitchen guide to using the right knife the right way

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!


Nonknife, nonmotorized sharp kitchen tools

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 hunter’s knife cannot carve its own handle.	Korean proverb

A hunter’s knife cannot carve its own handle.


Occasionally a man with a right smart education can’t find his knife when it gets in the wrong pocket.	African proverb

Occasionally a man with a right smart education can’t find his knife when it gets in the wrong pocket.


Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers.	Spanish proverb

Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers.

Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Hilary J. Bader

The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.

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