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.



A hunter’s knife cannot carve its own handle.

One knife will not cut another knife; one cheat will not cheat another cheat.

To start a fight, one does not bring a knife that cuts but a needle that sews.
A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
The damning tho’t stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, that she, whom all my life I’d loved, should be another’s wife.