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 hunter’s knife cannot carve its own handle.

If fate throws a knife at you, there are two ways of catching it: by the blade or by the handle.

No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle.
He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
One time a guy pulled a knife on me... I could tell it wasn’t a professional job — it had butter on it.