A sharp knife is safer, faster, and far more satisfying to use—but only if you maintain it properly. After testing electric ...

Keep your blades razor-sharp.

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” No, Abraham Lincoln didn’t say that (its true origins lie with an anonymous woodsman) but the meaning is ...

A dull kitchen knife, in addition to being very inconvenient, can, in fact, be very unsafe to use. When knives get dull, you ...

The first knife I ever carried was a small, bone-handled pocketknife with a single two-inch blade. This occurred a couple years before I even started school, but I was allowed to carry it. I looked ...