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 fear thorns, a woman fears man.	Mongo proverb

A knife does not fear thorns, a woman fears man.


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

In a smith’s house the knife is wooden.


The tongue of a bad friend cuts more than a knife.	African proverb

The tongue of a bad friend cuts more than a knife.

Sam Snead

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

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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