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!

Pastry wheel cutters

These round bladed tools cut through thin dough, such as piecrusts, or simple dough, such as cheese straws. Pastry wheel cutters allow you to quickly and evenly cut your dough into pieces or strips. Yes, you can do the same thing with a paring knife by dragging it across the dough. But if you do that, you run the risk of cutting or scratching your countertop.

Or worse, having uneven slicing. Plus, many pastry wheels have ridges, which give your dough a finished, fancier look. If you do this on your countertop, be aware that it may cause scratches. Consult your countertop manufacturer or owner’s manual for their recommendations.

**A pastry wheel** cutting cheese straws

Biscuit cutter

Pizza cutter / pizza wheel

Even if a knife is made of silver, a person won’t stab his own heart with it.

Man must be sharpened on man, like knife on stone.

The fool cuts himself with his own knife.

Javier Perez De Cuellar

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.

Buddha

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

Knife Skills —

a kitchen guide to using the right knife the right way

Pastry wheel cutters

Javier Perez De Cuellar

Buddha