Young adults (11 – 12) are capable of learning knife skills easily, but require supervision. Before you ever teach knife skills, you must first teach your child how to apply pressure to cuts to stop bleeding. Then, you can start by teaching your child how to hold a knife by teaching him how to properly keep fingers tucked back using the claw grip. Begin with a paring knife, then move onto a Chef's knife. Remember, dull doesn't necessarily mean safer if the child must exert a

When buying a kitchen knife you want the best bang for your buck. Everyone wants the best material available for their knife; who wouldn't? Steel is still the king of knives, and Ceramic and Titanium remain drastically inferior. But how do we go about finding the best kitchen knife steel? Ready for the bad news? Unfortunately there is no ultimate steel for knife blades, no superior, magnificent, ultimate blade material. This is really important to remember. Every steel has it

Since every kitchen knife cuts food, what is different about a handmade knife? The knife is the oldest tool in a chef's armoury - older even than the management of fire, by somewhere between a million and two million years. Cutting with one tool or another is the most basic way of processing food. Even at the earliest stages of human tool making, man was not randomly slashing at his food, but making careful decisions about which cuts to make with which tools. The knife is our