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


Do not yell “dinner” until your knife is in the loaf. Canadian proverb

Do not yell “dinner” until your knife is in the loaf.

Canadian proverb


If fate throws a knife at you, there are two ways of catching it: by the blade or by the handle. Dominican Republic proverb

If fate throws a knife at you, there are two ways of catching it: by the blade or by the handle.

Dominican Republic proverb


The knife that has been lent, never comes back alone. Romanian proverb

The knife that has been lent, never comes back alone.

Romanian proverb

Rabindranath Tagore

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

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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