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 false friend’s tongue is sharper than a knife.

It is a surprise that the cock should hold a grudge against the pot, instead of the knife that killed it.

When the ox is at the slaughterhouse everyone comes running with their knives.
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.