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 woman’s tongue is a double edged knife.

If fate throws a knife at you, there are two ways of catching it: by the blade or by the handle.

Under a gold sheath a leaden knife.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Obession is dangerous. It’s like a knife in the mind. In some cases... the knife can turn savagely upon the person wielding it... You use the knife carefully, because you know it doesn’t care who it cuts.