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 bad knife cuts one’s finger instead of the stick.

One knife whets another.

When the ox just stumbles, they all sharpen their knives.
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.
One time a guy pulled a knife on me... I could tell it wasn’t a professional job — it had butter on it.