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!

Cheese wire

This is one of the best inexpensive tools you can buy, and it is carried in many supermarkets. Most have a plastic roller just below the wire, which can be easily removed. This leaves you with a wire on a handle, ideal for slicing very soft cheeses, such as goat and blue. Both of these cheeses tend to break and crumble if you try to cut them with a knife.

When you use the cheese wire, place your cheese on the corner of the cutting board. This will allow the wire to come down onto the board and cut through the cheese completely. This is because the wire is just below the top of the handle, and it wouldn’t otherwise cut entirely through the cheese.

Cutting goat cheese with a cheese wire — **Cutting goat cheese with** a cheese wire on the corner of a cutting board

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Biscuit cutter

Give your wife the short knife, and keep the long one for yourself.

If the throat can grant passage to a knife, the anus should wonder how to expel it.

The fool cuts himself with his own knife.

Javier Perez De Cuellar

I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn’t want all the pills I’ve recommended, that’s up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.

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The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

Knife Skills —

a kitchen guide to using the right knife the right way

Cheese wire

Javier Perez De Cuellar

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