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Kitchen Scissors All Purpose Kitchen Shears Come Apart Stainless Steel
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Kitchen Scissors All Purpose Kitchen Shears Come Apart Stainless Steel

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We built these to be the pair you reach for before the knife block. The dark black handles hide a 3 mm thick 3cr13 stainless blade set, and one side carries a scoop that cradles a chicken joint so it cannot roll away mid-cut. Open the handles to ninety degrees and the two halves separate for cleaning, which is the only honest way to get food out of a pivot. Six jobs live in one tool here.

Spec plate

Type
All-purpose come-apart kitchen shears
Steel
3cr13 stainless, rust and corrosion resistant
Blade thickness
3 mm
Finish
Dark black handles
Built-in tools
Bone scoop, fish scaler, peeling slot, nutcracker, bottle and can opener

Anatomy of the tool

Blades

The scoop that pins a joint

One blade carries a scooped notch shaped to hold a bone still while the other side bites through it. Keep plastic packaging and everyday snipping on the front portion of the blade instead, and the pair cuts through almost anything cleanly.

Care

Ninety degrees and they are two tools

Hold both handles and open them to ninety degrees; a single metal bolt with a low-profile nut lets the halves come apart. Food trapped around a pivot screw is the usual reason shears start to feel gritty, and this ends that.

Grip

Rubber molded into the handle

The plastic handles have rubber grips molded in rather than glued on, with no burrs along the edges. Ergonomics matter most on the twentieth cut, so the shape is meant to keep hand fatigue down through a long prep session.

In Use

Six jobs between two handles

Basic snipping, scraping fish scales on the serrated edge, peeling a carrot through the long slot, cracking nuts in the toothed gap between the handles, opening a bottle, prying up a can lid. One drawer slot covers all of it.

From the sharpening bench

Take the halves apart after anything greasy and dry the pivot before reassembly; a dry bolt keeps the blades brushing against each other smoothly instead of binding.