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.



Even the devil himself does not know where women sharpen their knives.

In a golden sheath a leaden knife.

No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle.
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and pruning knife.
One time a guy pulled a knife on me... I could tell it wasn’t a professional job — it had butter on it.