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.


All are not cooks who carry long knives.	German proverb

All are not cooks who carry long knives.


If the throat can grant passage to a knife, the anus should wonder how to expel it.	African proverb

If the throat can grant passage to a knife, the anus should wonder how to expel it.


The whetstone in a village does no blunt the knife.	Chinese proverb

The whetstone in a village does no blunt the knife.

Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

The Holy Bible

Put a knife to thy throat, if you’re a man given to appetite.

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