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!

Cleaning

When you clean your cutting board, it’s recommended that you wash it with dish soap and hot water. But it’s also a good idea to run your boards through the dishwasher, or if you don’t have a dishwasher, to soak your boards in the sink filled with water and a quarter of a cup of bleach. This will remove any stains and bacteria that might be lurking on your board. When you do this, make sure your kitchen is well ventilated.

Poly boards stand up to this kind of cleaning very well. Wooden boards, over time, will not hold up to soaking, bleaching, and visits to the dishwasher. Eventually, they’ll crack and warp. However, wood does have natural bacteria-fighting properties, according to a 1993 study at the University of Wisconsin— Madison. Although these bacteria-fighting properties are not naturally found in polyethylene, bacteria can be destroyed through regular cleaning and bleaching. Also, wood cutting boards do need oiling on occasion, to keep them from becoming dry and brittle. Poly boards need no maintenance.

How to Choose and Use Your Knives

How to Choose and Use Your Knives

How to Buy a Knife

How to Buy a Knife

Caring for Your Knives

Caring for Your Knives

Nonknife, Nonmotorized Sharp Kitchen Tools

Nonknife, Nonmotorized Sharp Kitchen Tools


Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork. English proverb

Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork.

English proverb


Man must be sharpened on man, like knife on stone. African proverb

Man must be sharpened on man, like knife on stone.

African proverb


What is in the yams that a knife doesn’t know. Bajan proverb

What is in the yams that a knife doesn’t know.

Bajan proverb

Margaret Witter Fuller

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and pruning knife.

John Owen

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his), poison, his exercise or his destruction.

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