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.

Marriages sealed with rings end with drawn knives.

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

Javier Perez De Cuellar

I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn’t want all the pills I’ve recommended, that’s up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.

Charles Buxton

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

Knife Skills —

a kitchen guide to using the right knife the right way

How to buy a knife

Javier Perez De Cuellar

Charles Buxton