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!
A mezzaluna is a mostly single-purpose tool. Its use is for chopping herbs. With its rounded blade, it just needs a rocking motion, back and forth, to chop the herbs as finely as you’d like. Mezzalunas are available with either one or two blades. As a professional chef, I’ve never felt the need to use one. Herbs chop quite easily with a chef’s knife. The main reason to buy a mezzaluna is if you’re chopping a mountain of herbs every day. It will make your task easier and faster.
A knife does not fear thorns, a woman fears man.
In a golden sheath a leaden knife.
To start a fight, one does not bring a knife that cuts but a needle that sews.
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and pruning knife.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?