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.



Even if a knife is made of silver, a person won’t stab his own heart with it.

No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle.

To start a fight, one does not bring a knife that cuts but a needle that sews.
He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.