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!



Cutting by the tongue is different from cutting by the knife.	Kikuyu proverb

Cutting by the tongue is different from cutting by the knife.


One knife whets another.	American proverb

One knife whets another.


When you are pepper, I am mustard; when thou art a needle, I am a knife.	Bahumbu proverb

When you are pepper, I am mustard; when thou art a needle, I am a knife.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Stanislaw Lem

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

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