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


Cutting by the tongue is different from cutting by the knife. Kikuyu proverb

Cutting by the tongue is different from cutting by the knife.

Kikuyu proverb


Teaching a monkey to eat with a fork and knife will never make it a man. Congolese proverb

Teaching a monkey to eat with a fork and knife will never make it a man.

Congolese proverb


Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers. Spanish proverb

Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers.

Spanish proverb

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Emily Dickinson

Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit — Life!

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