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.


Do not yell “dinner” until your knife is in the loaf.	Canadian proverb

Do not yell “dinner” until your knife is in the loaf.


He likes it, as a goat likes the knife, that kills him.	Hungarian proverb

He likes it, as a goat likes the knife, that kills him.


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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hunter S. Thompson

You can always turn your back on a person, but you can never turn your back on a drug... especially when it’s waving a hunting knife in your eyes.

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