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!


Caring for your knives

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.


A knife does not know who is its master.	Ghanaian proverb

A knife does not know who is its master.


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.


The mother is she who catches the knife by the blade.	French proverb

The mother is she who catches the knife by the blade.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

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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