Re: What Do You Use Kitchen Scissors For?

No it's just a little implement. It's very old. It seems to have been around forever. Here it is. You can see the scissor sharpening slot if you look closely. I don't use the knife bit.

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Thanks Keezoy.

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I use my kitchen scissors for cutting off the tops of annoying plastic packets, the perforations that mean you can tear them never work.

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Hear hear Tiff, I know exactly what you mean.

I also use mine for cutting up herbs, removing bacon rind and other fatty bits off meat, cutting baking parchment, opening different packets and wrappers, and all sorts I can't think of at the mo.

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Same here, that's all I use mine for, Mups.

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I also use mine for cutting string.

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I've never thought of using kitchen scissors for food. Do they work really well? Perhaps they are safer in that you're less likely to injure yourself. I think I'd be concerned about hygiene because how do you get them really clean at the join? There are scissors in the kitchen draw which I use to open parcels, cut through cellophane on flowers and cut bird seed bags open

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Cutting things in the kitchen.

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This thread has got me thinking about a kitchen scissor sharpener, something I hadn't considered despite having 3 sharpeners for kitchen knives.

However, none of the shapeners I've looked at seem to cater for a serrated edge, so I think I'll try aluminium foil, since there's always some left at the end of a roll.

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I never considered it before Art but yes I use my scissors a lot .....cutting chopping and I use them as grabbers too....turning over bacon rashers in the pan