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!


Pizza cutter / pizza wheel

If you make your own pizza, this is a fun tool to have. Yes, it will make you feel like you’re in a real pizza shop. But it’s not a crucial tool to own. You can skip owning a pizza cutter and use your chef’s knife instead to cut your pizza. Neither tool will improve, or detract from, the flavor of your homemade pizza masterpiece.

Pizza cutter
Pizza cutter / pizza wheel

A knife does not fear thorns, a woman fears man.	Mongo proverb

A knife does not fear thorns, a woman fears man.


No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle.	French proverb

No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it’s own handle.


The tongue of a bad friend cuts more than a knife.	African proverb

The tongue of a bad friend cuts more than a knife.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

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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