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.”


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

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


He likes it, as a goat likes the knife, that kills him.	Hungarian proverb

He likes it, as a goat likes the knife, that kills him.


The tongue of a bad friend cuts more than a knife.	African proverb

The tongue of a bad friend cuts more than a knife.

Sam Snead

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.

Stanislaw Lem

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

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