Knives

You don’t really need a lot of knives. The most important thing about knives is to keep them sharp! A sharp knife makes everything in the kitchen go much more easily, while a dull knife is frustrating to work with and makes cooking unnecessarily onerous and difficult. Learn to use a sharpening stone or some other tool that you like or take your knives to be sharpened on a regular basis.

What you do need are a few different kinds of knives: a good paring knife, a 10-inch cook’s knife, a serrated knife, and a 6-inch cook’s knife.