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 know who is its master.	Ghanaian proverb

A knife does not know who is its master.


He likes it, as a goat likes the knife, that kills him.	Hungarian proverb

He likes it, as a goat likes the knife, that kills him.


The butcher looked for his knife and it was in his mouth.	African proverb

The butcher looked for his knife and it was in his mouth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Emily Dickinson

Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit — Life!

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