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!
Many kitchen tools aren’t knives but are still very sharp. These can be just as valuable, but unlike knives, are often just task-specific. Over time, as you cook more, you’ll buy these as you need them.



Cutting by the tongue is different from cutting by the knife.

It is a surprise that the cock should hold a grudge against the pot, instead of the knife that killed it.

The knife that has been lent, never comes back alone.
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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.