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!


Pizza cutter / pizza wheel

If you make your own pizza, this is a fun tool to have. Yes, it will make you feel like you’re in a real pizza shop. But it’s not a crucial tool to own. You can skip owning a pizza cutter and use your chef’s knife instead to cut your pizza. Neither tool will improve, or detract from, the flavor of your homemade pizza masterpiece.

Pizza cutter
Pizza cutter / pizza wheel

A bad knife cuts one’s finger instead of the stick.	Portuguese proverb

A bad knife cuts one’s finger instead of the stick.


Occasionally a man with a right smart education can’t find his knife when it gets in the wrong pocket.	African proverb

Occasionally a man with a right smart education can’t find his knife when it gets in the wrong pocket.


A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.	Kikuyu proverb

A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

James Russell Lowell

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Hunter S. Thompson

You can always turn your back on a person, but you can never turn your back on a drug... especially when it’s waving a hunting knife in your eyes.

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