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

As the camel falls to its knees, more knives are drawn.	Bedouin proverb

As the camel falls to its knees, more knives are drawn.


If the throat can grant passage to a knife, the anus should wonder how to expel it.	African proverb

If the throat can grant passage to a knife, the anus should wonder how to expel it.


The mother is she who catches the knife by the blade.	French proverb

The mother is she who catches the knife by the blade.

Katharine Hepburn

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

Buddha

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

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