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!


Biscuit cutter

Biscuit cutters come in two styles. The store-bought style often comes either in small boxes with multiple size cutters or as a single cutter. The other style is homemade and improvised, often the lid to a jar. An advantage of the purchased cutters is that they have a bit of a sharp edge. This means you’ll be able to cut through not just dough, but fruit, vegetables, and sandwiches to create the special shapes that you want. They also come in round, fluted, and other shapes, whereas the lid from a jar is just round and only in a few sizes.


Cutting by the tongue is different from cutting by the knife.	Kikuyu proverb

Cutting by the tongue is different from cutting by the knife.


Teaching a monkey to eat with a fork and knife will never make it a man.	Congolese proverb

Teaching a monkey to eat with a fork and knife will never make it a man.


The pen can kill a man; no knife is needed.	Arabic proverb

The pen can kill a man; no knife is needed.

Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Rodney Dangerfield

One time a guy pulled a knife on me... I could tell it wasn’t a professional job — it had butter on it.

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