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!


Fillet knife

A fillet knife is similar to a boning knife, but it has a longer and slightly narrower blade, and is used almost exclusively on fish. When the word fillet is used with meat, it’s used as a noun. But when it’s used with fish, it’s both a noun (“fillet of fish”) and a verb (“fillet that fish”). No one ever says, “fillet that cow.”


A woman’s tongue is a double edged knife.	Romanian proverb

A woman’s tongue is a double edged knife.


Only the knife knows the heart of a pineapple.	Romanian proverb

Only the knife knows the heart of a pineapple.


When you are pepper, I am mustard; when thou art a needle, I am a knife.	Bahumbu proverb

When you are pepper, I am mustard; when thou art a needle, I am a knife.

James Russell Lowell

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Stanislaw Lem

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

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