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 child who fears beating, would never admit that he played with a missing knife.
Only the knife knows the heart of a pineapple.
What is in the yams that a knife doesn’t know.
A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.