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!

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A woman’s tongue is a double edged knife. Romanian proverb

A woman’s tongue is a double edged knife.

Romanian proverb


Only a knife can best tell a child when to leave it. German proverb

Only a knife can best tell a child when to leave it.

German proverb


The whetstone in a village does no blunt the knife. Chinese proverb

The whetstone in a village does no blunt the knife.

Chinese proverb

James Russell Lowell

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

Hunter S. Thompson

You can always turn your back on a person, but you can never turn your back on a drug... especially when it’s waving a hunting knife in your eyes.

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