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.



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

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips.

A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
One time a guy pulled a knife on me... I could tell it wasn’t a professional job — it had butter on it.