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 desperate person will even hold on to a knife edge.	Filipino proverb

A desperate person will even hold on to a knife edge.


Only a knife can best tell a child when to leave it.	German proverb

Only a knife can best tell a child when to leave it.


When you take a knife away from a child, give him a piece of wood instead.	Turkish proverb

When you take a knife away from a child, give him a piece of wood instead.

Gordon Graham

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

Hilary J. Bader

The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.

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