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 hunter’s knife cannot carve its own handle.	Korean proverb

A hunter’s knife cannot carve its own handle.


He who licks knives will soon cut his tongue.	Ukrainian proverb

He who licks knives will soon cut his tongue.


The fool cuts himself with his own knife.	Kikuyu proverb

The fool cuts himself with his own knife.

Katharine Hepburn

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

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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