We all have at least one of these long, wicked-looking, and many-toothed knives laying around in a drawer. Unless you make or buy whole loaves of bread, chances are that knife isn't seeing too much action in your kitchen. Here are a few more ways you can put that knife to work! More

After years of thinking it would be a good idea, we finally got our act together and purchased some lightweight, easily packable utensil sets. We're carrying them around everywhere to use at lunches, picnics, and restaurants with disposable cutlery. It's such a simple yet beneficial action. Here are ten of the best utensil sets we found – well-designed, handy, portable, and reusable. More

Look at these colorful knives! Would you like knives this colorful in your kitchen? More

We get a lot of questions about knives. What knife should I buy? Help me find an affordable chef's knife! Should I buy this knife set? Etcetera. We invariably recommend one good chef's knife and a paring knife or two. But we also have one specialty knife in our drawer: the bread knife. We don't use it for much else, though, and we wish it was more multi-use.

Well, this new Classic Wave Knife from Wüsthof may replace your bread knife, and do a lot more besides. More

This slicing guide is a product that we instinctively feel like we should ridicule. What a unitasker! And yet we are so uncoordinated that our tomato slices often come out either wispy or chunky — and don't even talk about our bread slicing clumsiness. Precise slicing is definitely an area of growth for our knife skills. So perhaps this has some guilty merit. But then again, maybe you could hack this with a large carving fork? What do you think?

We're really fascinated by this concept for a set of multi-use knives. It made the blog rounds a little while ago, and we have been looking back at it and thinking about what makes a good multi-use tool. We often praise multi-use kitchen tools that cram many functions into one, but what makes a truly useful tool? Do you want a grater and a knife in one? More

Yesterday Sara Kate posted a great how-to on sharpening your knives at home. If you have the tools, it's easy to do. But just like there are people who prefer to buy pizza dough rather than make it from scratch, there are some of us who prefer to leave our knife sharpening to the pros. The only problem is that we miss them while they're gone. Here's one solution—plus a slew of sources... More

Taking part in the Kitchen Cure? This would be a great week to learn how to sharpen your knives, especially given all the cooking you'll be doing in the final three weeks. Even if you're not one of the 800 plus Cure-takers, my guess is your knives haven't been sharpened lately, if ever.

First a quick survey, then click through for a great how-to video on knife sharpening.

OK everyone, this is it! The big push to get your kitchen clean, organized, and well-equipped before we turn and start in on the cooking part of the Kitchen Cure next week. We're going to give you lots more cleaning resources and inspiration during the rest of the week, but first: as you cleaned and organized your cupboards, is there anything you discovered you're missing?

This is a good question for today, given all our recent talk about knife storage. Reader Jesse writes:

My boyfriend and I are moving in together this month to our first darling little apartment. One of the things we are both most excited about is having a kitchen all to ourselves. While we get to take a lot of things from the our current kitchens, we will be missing one main ingredient for a fabulous kitchen: A really good knife.