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!

How to buy a knife

Now that you know how to hold and use a knife, how do you buy one? Other than handing over money, of course. Well, you have many options. Many people have rightly said that you should buy a knife that’s comfortable in your hand. But what does that mean, and how do you find out if the knife is comfortable?

You can buy knives anywhere, including cutlery stores that specialize in selling knives, surplus/salvage stores, big-box stores, and online merchants. You can spend anywhere from $10 to over $200 for one knife. Or more. With such a range in shopping and prices, what are the deciding factors in buying a knife? Here are a few things to guide you. The knife should be:

  1. Comfortable in your hand
  2. A quality item
  3. A fair price that fits your budget
  4. Easily sharpened
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


Give your wife the short knife, and keep the long one for yourself. Danish proverb

Give your wife the short knife, and keep the long one for yourself.

Danish proverb


If the throat can grant passage to a knife, the anus should wonder how to expel it. African proverb

If the throat can grant passage to a knife, the anus should wonder how to expel it.

African proverb


No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle. Kikuyu proverb

No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle.

Kikuyu proverb

James Russell Lowell

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

Henry Glassford Bell

The damning tho’t stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, that she, whom all my life I’d loved, should be another’s wife.

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