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!



Fools and knives require good handling.	Japanese proverb

Fools and knives require good handling.


Only the knife knows the heart of a pineapple.	Romanian proverb

Only the knife knows the heart of a pineapple.


The village, which has got a whetstone, does not blunt the knife.	Tswana proverb

The village, which has got a whetstone, does not blunt the knife.

Sam Snead

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.

Stanislaw Lem

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

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