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Johnsmyname

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What are your favorite kitchen scissors or sheers and why? I’m looking for a new pair. Use will be everything from opening vacuum sealed bags to snipping fins from fish. They must be unhinge-able and I prefer a straight edge with serration after for grip. Other than that anything goes. What’s your favorite?!

Here’s my current pair. I really like them, but they’ve been on salt water fishing boats and could obviously be upgraded/replaced.

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Johnsmyname said:
$150 is that right? Very interesting. What do you like/dislike? Website wants you to reserve a spot to buy. These are some serious scissors!
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They are seriously really good, I ordered a turton from them and waited months for it. It's so good I ended up getting their general purpose scissors and some thread snips for my wife.
 
I'm a big fan of the Chinese restaurant supply carbon steel kitchen shears. I have bought several pairs over the years and keep them at home, at work, and on the workbench. Super handy for random cutting tasks. Razor sharp for cutting precise chive circles. But tough enough for spatchcocking chickens, processing shellfish and cutting open plastic packaging.

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HolyDiverScallop said:
They're olfa-ly nice, but I don't think they come apart.
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They don’t. (Not reversibly, that is.) I don’t use them on food - packaging, parchment etc. is their diet.

The one time in twenty years I needed shears for food (crab) I used garden pruners. I soaked those in alkaline soap to clean them.

The alkalinity is a wonderful thing. One can soak carbon steel in that mix for a week (perhaps longer) without any corrosion. Pure bonus: it hydrolyzes fats. Best kept off wood and horn.
 
aporigine said:
They don’t. (Not reversibly, that is.) I don’t use them on food - packaging, parchment etc. is their diet.

The one time in twenty years I needed shears for food (crab) I used garden pruners. I soaked those in alkaline soap to clean them.

The alkalinity is a wonderful thing. One can soak carbon steel in that mix for a week (perhaps longer) without any corrosion. Pure bonus: it hydrolyzes fats. Best kept off wood and horn.
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I spatchcock chickens with a startling regularity. I have a pair of Oxo poultry shears that do a pretty good job and come apart for cleaning.
 
Same, I have some Silky ones... but honestly the only reason I have them (and like them) is that they come apart really easy for cleaning. Which is also pretty much my one and only desire in scissors. I would have gone with the 'standard full stainless Japanese scissors' that most retailers seem to carry but that happened to be out of stock when I was adding scissors to my order.
 
+1 for the blue mac scissors. I like that its slender so its nimble to use and you can get into tigher spaces like lobster claws/nuckles. Use it to cut twine, packages, Trim delicate things like brick pastry, etc. It's utilitarian. Might be a bit biased, the mac salesman comes around every so often to the big hotels I've worked at and gives us a discount.

Some of my current coworkers use the Joyce Chen scissors which also seem like a solid choice.
 
The main use of scissors in my kitchen is to open packaging. Apart from getting crazy with the occasional poorly cut pizza, I just don't cut a lot of food with scissors. If I butchered a bunch of whole fish, that'd be a different story. Or maybe if I hunted a lot of small game. But I don't do those things. Naturally, I own four pair of kitchen scissors.

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My all arounder scissor that opens packaging and may have tape residue on the blades are the Kershaw / Shun Taskmasters. They're really all I ever wanted in a kitchen shear functionally. I do use the bottle opener when I'm too lazy to walk three feet to the actual bottle opener. Taskmasters do feel a bit utiilitarian but that's okay.
The Tojiros are a more refined weapon from a more civilized age. They feel a bit sexier and more like you want to cut food with them. No bottle opener, but that's okay.
The tiny Macs are great but I wish they disassembled. I really want to buy a bunch of the small scissors to compare them to, but that's stupid. And yet the desire persists even though I know it's stupid.
The Big Macs are super sturdy, think chonky boi's that are my top choice for spatchcocking or getting down and dirty with bone. They're made in a similar fashion to the Cutco shears, which are overpriced (like everything they sell) but do not suck (unlike everything else they sell). The handle is less nice on the Mac, but they're half the price.

I have my eye on half a dozen other makes of scissors that I want to try. The DAFG shears in each size please. You know... because of all the dry aged fish I'm doing. I hear the Gerber small game shears are good, what with all the small game I've been cooking...
 
btbyrd said:
The main use of scissors in my kitchen is to open packaging. Apart from getting crazy with the occasional poorly cut pizza, I just don't cut a lot of food with scissors. If I butchered a bunch of whole fish, that'd be a different story. Or maybe if I hunted a lot of small game. But I don't do those things. Naturally, I own four pair of kitchen scissors.

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The Tojiros are a more refined weapon from a more civilized age. They feel a bit sexier and more like you want to cut food with them. No bottle opener, but that's okay.
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The tojiros have a bottle.opener In The middle of the middle like right before the blade section?
 
I don’t get the scissors bottle opener. I for one find it much easier to track down a can opener or corkscrew to open bottles than a pair of scissors. Are folks going out on a boat with a cooler of beer and some Tojiro shears? I’m not seeing it. If I’m actually using a sewing machine to repair something I think beers and shears may be a requirement but thats not an activity in my plans.
 
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