Types of Knives

Learn the basics on cutting in Katie Goodman's Kitchen 101 article that's posted up today. Katie writes: Many around the world have resolved to start

How to Teach Knife Skills to Children Ages 5-8 (get the mini ecourse on Training Kids in the Kitchen for free, SIX days only, through April 28!)

How good are your knife skills? Find out with knife skills infograph from the creative team at Illustrated Bites - you'll never dice the same way again

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Do you correctly know how to hold a knife? Learn 4 effective gripping methods, the cutting motion technique, and guide hand positioning. Chef Jon-Paul Hutchi...

How to use knives like a chef: Today's Knife Skills 101 "How To" will have you chopping like a pro in no time! Learn the difference between knife holds and

Including easy ingredient substitutions, basic knife skills, meat marinating times, and more.

Once you’ve gone to all the trouble of sharpening your knife, the next step is keeping that way! This is easy to do and only takes a few seconds. Here’s how…As you use your knife, the sharp edge will gradually start to curl under. When you sharpen your knife on a steel, you’re actually just straightening the edge back out again. (This is as opposed to sharpening your knife on a whetstone, where metal is being removed to form a sharper edge.

When I worked as a server after college, if I wasn’t ferrying glasses of vino to guests on the floor you would likely find me back in the kitchen, leaning over the window and chatting with the cooks. Besides hearing a handful of very NSFW stories, it was here that I learned one of my greatest lessons in the kitchen — how to actually hold a knife.

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Anthony Bourdain demonstrates basic knife technique.