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!



Even if a knife is made of silver, a person won’t stab his own heart with it.	Afghan proverb

Even if a knife is made of silver, a person won’t stab his own heart with it.


His pocket knife opens in my pocket.	Hungarian proverb

His pocket knife opens in my pocket.


To engage in conflict, one does not bring a knife that cuts but a needle that sews.	Spanish proverb

To engage in conflict, one does not bring a knife that cuts but a needle that sews.

Sam Snead

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

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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