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:

Comfortable in your hand
A quality item
A fair price that fits your budget
Easily sharpened

A spoon

Comfort and balance

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

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

Wounds from the knife are healed, but not those from the tongue.

Tad Williams

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

Hunter S. Thompson

You can always turn your back on a person, but you can never turn your back on a drug... especially when it’s waving a hunting knife in your eyes.

Knife Skills —

a kitchen guide to using the right knife the right way

How to buy a knife

Tad Williams

Hunter S. Thompson