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.



A hunter’s knife cannot carve its own handle.

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

When you are pepper, I am mustard; when thou art a needle, I am a knife.
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and pruning 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.