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Re: What Do You Use Kitchen Scissors For?

Good knife, good chopping board, nothing more essential.

However, I use scissors for trimming little bits off my red hot chilli pepper, goes straight into the pot of con carne sauce, don't want to get it on my fingers.
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Re: What Do You Use Kitchen Scissors For?

Originally Posted by Artangel ->
Am l an oddity (that was a silly question!) that l cut most food stuff up with a kitchen scissors?

I cut up lettuce, cabbage, pastry, chicken or beef into pieces, sliced onion into pieces, rind off bacon, sometimes sandwiches and much more with a scissors.
I find, l am not cutting up food stuff with a knife so much as l used to, as it’s quicker using kitchen scissors!

I bet many of you do this anyway! Are there any other things that maybe you use a scissors for, rather than a knife?
I am the dish washer in our partnership I leave the tech part of the kitchen to my beautiful lady
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How do you keep your scissors sharp, Art?

Have you a particular method, or gadget you would recommend for your kitchen scissors?
Mups, l must’ve had the scissors over ten years and l have never sharpened them. I’ve never even thought of sharpening them as they still cut well.
I only wash them by hand, l’ve never put them in the dishwasher.

I think l got them from Wilko? Here’s a pic.... as you can see they are nothing special.
I must try, Silver Tabby’s great tip about sharpening them.


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16-11-2019, 06:13 PM
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Re: What Do You Use Kitchen Scissors For?

I use kitchen scissors to open the blister packs that new kitchen scissors come in
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I use kitchen scissors to open the blister packs that new kitchen scissors come in
Ha!
Blister packs are a freakin nightmare! (pardon my americanism!)
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16-11-2019, 07:19 PM
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Re: What Do You Use Kitchen Scissors For?

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For most food I use one of my surgically sharp knives. However I do use a special scissors for cutting the rind from bacon and for making lardons. The main 'kitchen scissors' are used for cutting greaseproof paper, opening packets of dried fruit/beans/lentils - that sort of thing.
I'm the same Tabs

I went on a girlie weekend away a few years back with colleagues.
I was horrified to see two of them simultaneously start cutting our pizzas (just one of many dishes prepared) with scissors!!!
I thought I'd been transported to a tailor's workshop!!!
Why hadn't they heard of pizza cutters?
And why weren't they concerned about cutting down the middle first?
These are questions that still haunt my (mildly) foody OCD!!!
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Cutting Pizza with scissors? That is a new one - I hope they sterilised them first!
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Re: What Do You Use Kitchen Scissors For?

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Cutting Pizza with scissors? That is a new one - I hope they sterilised them first!
I didn't check!!!
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Re: What Do You Use Kitchen Scissors For?

Kitchen??? erm let me think! Oh yes that is where "er indoors" rules. Once I swapped the sugar jar with the coffee jar on the kitchen work top. I would rather be told off by a sergeant major
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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
Annie, l find it quicker to cut food up with the scissors than using a knife.
My scissors always look ok after washing them and no one has ever suffered any tummy upsets.
 
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