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 false friend’s tongue is sharper than a knife.	Argentinean proverb

A false friend’s tongue is sharper than a knife.


The blessed knife eats of the meat of the “kinandu”.	Haitian proverb

The blessed knife eats of the meat of the “kinandu”.


A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.	Kikuyu proverb

A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

Sam Snead

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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