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 man without a knife, is a man without a life.	Faroese proverb

A man without a knife, is a man without a life.


Marriages sealed with rings end with drawn knives.	Scotch proverb

Marriages sealed with rings end with drawn knives.


Under a gold sheath a leaden knife.	Bajan proverb

Under a gold sheath a leaden knife.

Katharine Hepburn

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

John Owen

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.

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