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!



Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork. 	English proverb

Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork.


No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle.	French proverb

No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle.


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

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

James Russell Lowell

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Emily Dickinson

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

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