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.


A hunter’s knife cannot carve its own handle.	Korean proverb

A hunter’s knife cannot carve its own handle.


Only the knife knows the heart of a pineapple.	Romanian proverb

Only the knife knows the heart of a pineapple.


Wounds from the knife are healed, but not those from the tongue.	Vietnamese proverb

Wounds from the knife are healed, but not those from the tongue.

Tad Williams

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

Henry Glassford Bell

The damning tho’t stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, that she, whom all my life I’d loved, should be another’s wife.

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