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.



A false friend’s tongue is sharper than a knife.

It is a surprise that the cock should hold a grudge against the pot, instead of the knife that killed it.

You do not drink soup with a knife.
Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.