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!



Cutting by the tongue is different from cutting by the knife.	Kikuyu proverb

Cutting by the tongue is different from cutting by the knife.


In a smith’s house the knife is wooden.	Zimbabwean proverb

In a smith’s house the knife is wooden.


When you are pepper, I am mustard; when thou art a needle, I am a knife.	Bahumbu proverb

When you are pepper, I am mustard; when thou art a needle, I am a knife.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hunter S. Thompson

You can always turn your back on a person, but you can never turn your back on a drug... especially when it’s waving a hunting knife in your eyes.

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