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 child who fears beating, would never admit that he played with a missing knife.

One knife will not cut another knife; one cheat will not cheat another cheat.

Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers.
I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn’t want all the pills I’ve recommended, that’s up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.