You return to the kitchen, closing the door behind you, not wanting to find out what large creature was howling so. There is a new clean knife next to the dirty ones.

You can:
see what's in the pot,
examine the knives and take one or all of them, even though you already have a knife,
look in the cupboards,
try operating the stove.

You could also ignore what's in this room and:
open the door opposite the stove, or
re-open the door you just came through.