Although I?m not completely sure on this, but I personally think that the first cooking implement created by man was the knife. Ever since the Stone Age, man used knives to hunt and gather their food, and later on used to prepare food when fire was discovered. Several centuries later, the knife is still one of the most common and most used tools everywhere you can find a kitchen. Everywhere you go, from homes to cafes and restaurants, you will find all sorts of knives being used for almost every food preparation and cooking task.
But although we can all agree about the importance of this versatile tool, the fact remains that still a lot of people don?t know how to handle and take care of their knives properly. Perhaps it?s because knives don?t have instruction manuals.
One of my pet peeves is watching people handle knives wrongly. But then, …