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.


As the camel falls to its knees, more knives are drawn.	Bedouin proverb

As the camel falls to its knees, more knives are drawn.


Teaching a monkey to eat with a fork and knife will never make it a man.	Congolese proverb

Teaching a monkey to eat with a fork and knife will never make it a man.


You do not drink soup with a knife.	African proverb

You do not drink soup with a knife.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

Stanislaw Lem

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

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