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.


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

Only the knife knows the heart of a pineapple.

Under a gold sheath a leaden knife.
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.
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.