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 knife and a shaving-knife are alike.	Bajan proverb

A knife and a shaving-knife are alike.


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

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.	Argentinean proverb

To start a fight, one does not bring a knife that cuts but a needle that sews.

Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

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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