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.

If the throat can grant passage to a knife, the anus should wonder how to expel it.

When the ox is at the slaughterhouse everyone comes running with their knives.
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!