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.



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

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

When the ox just stumbles, they all sharpen their knives.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
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.