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!

Why cutting boards matter

When choosing among the many types of available cutting boards, remember just one crucial thing: do not use a cutting board that has an extremely hard surface. This includes stone, glass, and boards made from manufactured countertop surfaces. Why manufactured countertop surfaces? This doesn’t seem as obvious, but many people like to have cutting boards made from leftover scraps when they have new countertops installed in their kitchen. The problem with using these hard surfaces as cutting boards is that they’ll quickly dull your knives’ blades. You want a cutting board that has a little give to it.

The best materials for cutting boards are wood and polyethylene (usually called a poly board), which is a type of plastic. Both are solid, but not so hard that they’ll dull your knives. They’re porous, which also means they can be thoroughly cleaned. Although both types are very good, I prefer, and recommend, poly cutting boards over wooden ones because of how I like to clean them.

How to Choose and Use Your Knives

How to Choose and Use Your Knives

How to Buy a Knife

How to Buy a Knife

Caring for Your Knives

Caring for Your Knives

Nonknife, Nonmotorized Sharp Kitchen Tools

Nonknife, Nonmotorized Sharp Kitchen Tools


Even the devil himself does not know where women sharpen their knives. Latvian proverb

Even the devil himself does not know where women sharpen their knives.

Latvian proverb


Man must be sharpened on man, like knife on stone. African proverb

Man must be sharpened on man, like knife on stone.

African proverb


The pen can kill a man; no knife is needed. Arabic proverb

The pen can kill a man; no knife is needed.

Arabic proverb

Gordon Graham

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

Buddha

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

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