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!
I have one simple rule for caring for knives: if you treat them well, they’ll treat you well. And by treating you well, that means that they’ll last for many years. My primary knives are over 20 years old, and should be going strong for many more years. You can get the same mileage out of yours by paying attention to how you wash, store, and use your knives.


Even the devil himself does not know where women sharpen their knives.

Occasionally a man with a right smart education can’t find his knife when it gets in the wrong pocket.

The tongue of a bad friend cuts more than a knife.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Put a knife to thy throat, if you’re a man given to appetite.