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!

Tomato shark

Every now and then, a single-use tool comes along that makes itself invaluable. That’s what the tomato shark did. But then I discovered that it has a second great use too. Its main purpose is to take the stem end out of a tomato. While a paring knife does this task well, it takes the knife a few movements and sometimes leaves an irregular and too-large hole in the top of your tomato.

The shark will take the core out in one smooth motion, leaving a hole that’s perfectly round and as shallow, or deep, as needed. The shark’s second function is that it’s terrific at removing the tops from strawberries. It’s better than a knife because it just takes off the green stem, and not too much of the edible berry. But be careful. The tomato shark’s teeth may be small, but it’s still easy to snag your fingers on them. And we all know about shark bites.

Mini chopper

Cheese wire

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

God made hands before knives.

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

Gordon Graham

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

Emily Dickinson

Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit — Life!

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Tomato shark

Gordon Graham

Emily Dickinson