As you begin to cook, one of the first and most important skills that you're going to need to know
is the proper way to handle a chef's knife.
As you pick it up, 
you are going to want to hold it
in your dominant hand,
grabbing it loosely between your fingers and the top of your palm.
Next, what you're going to do
is hold it between your thumb and your index finger, just like this.
Thumb and index finger. What this does is it gives you more control as you cut with the knife. 
Rather than, say, going like this, which in addition to putting strain on the index finger,
is much less stable. This way, you have a nice firm grip of the knife.
So once you have all these steps completed, it should look a little something like this.
Maybe hold it down a little bit more, 
again, between the thumb and the index finger. 
