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!



A knife does not recognize its owner.	African proverb

A knife does not recognize its owner.


No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle.	French proverb

No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle.


The tongue that belongs to a fake friend is sharper than a knife.	Faroese proverb

The tongue that belongs to a fake friend is sharper than a knife.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

Stanislaw Lem

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

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