Knife Skills —

a kitchen guide to using the right knife the right way

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!


Nonknife, nonmotorized sharp kitchen tools

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.


Give your wife the short knife, and keep the long one for yourself.	Danish proverb

Give your wife the short knife, and keep the long one for yourself.


Long ere you cut Falkland-wood with a Pen-knife.	Spanish proverb

Long ere you cut Falkland-wood with a Pen-knife.


When the ox just stumbles, they all sharpen their knives.	Bahamian proverb

When the ox just stumbles, they all sharpen their knives.

John Cheever

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Emily Dickinson

Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit — Life!

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