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.



Fools and knives require good handling.

In a smith’s house the knife is wooden.

A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his), poison, his exercise or his destruction.