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!



A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.	Turkish proverb

A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.


Honey in his mouth, knives in his heart.	 Chinese proverb

Honey in his mouth, knives in his heart.


When the ox is at the slaughterhouse everyone comes running with their knives.	German proverb

When the ox is at the slaughterhouse everyone comes running with their knives.

Javier Perez De Cuellar

I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn’t want all the pills I’ve recommended, that’s up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.

Henry Glassford Bell

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.

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