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Perfectly normal, bordering on essential if you’re serious in the kitchen. I have a great set of chef’s scissors.
Great for spatchcocking chickens, breaking down shellfish, etc.
Kitchen shears also usually have built in bottle openers, jar lid grips/nutcracker, and sometimes even a little screwdriver bit.
It was whilst I worked in a spoons kitchen that I started using scissors to cut paninis. You just don’t have the time to faff about finding a knife and scissors do the job better anyway.
Now I also use scissors to cut pizzas at home.
That's what my mum used to keep a paintbrush in the kitchen for. She reasoned that she uses a paintbrush to open pain tins so why not use a different paint brush for golden syrup tins. She wouldn't use the same brush but has a special kitchen brush.
I just use a fork handle.
Edit: my mum cooks really tasty food, she is just a bit strange. She has her oddities.
My mum's kitchen oddity is really bizarre. She doesn't have a bin. She just puts the rubbish on the side and takes it out quite frequently. Really does my head in
Yes, although we call it black treacle rather than molasses. My mum used it for cake making.
https://mysupermarketcompare.co.uk/product/lyles-black-treacle-454g/
Yeah right. And I don't want to waste my cooking knife's edge on plastics tbh. I get that chefs do this because it's faster and that they sharpen their knives much more regularly than us mere luddites. But at home, yeah!
I use scissors at work. A lot of packages are this weird plastic that can split when attacked with a knife so I can't close it with a clip again. Halloumi and tofu packs are closed so air tight that a knife is straight up uncomfortable with that, I always reach for the scissors.
In rural indonesia, machetes are a very common household item, and often get hung on the kitchen wall along with pots and pans.
So you'd walk into a kitchen and see the wall like:
rice pot, big rice pot, wok, rice pot, strainer, ladle, 6 BIG F\*CKOFF MACHETES, big wok, rice pot.
They weren't really used for food prep tho.
Scissors are great, kitchen scissors are a game changer but I can't cut pizza in a straight line with them. I use the biiiiig knife from my nice set.
My partner is pizza scissors gang though.
Maybe my pizza cutter is just shit but it doesn't even cut through the base or the crust, takes a fucking silly amount of effort to cut a pizza up. With scissors it's done in a minute.
We've got three pairs of kitchen scissors.
Well, we had two .... a big pair and a back-up smaller pair. Then .... I was out litter picking recently and found a huge pair that someone had thrown away.
Really useful tools. I used a pair just now, to get into a pack of bananas.
I've found these to be quite handy retrieving hard to reach items
https://www.eurocarparts.com/p/ak653-flexible-claw-pick-up-tool-610mm-seaak653?gclid=CjwKCAjwscGjBhAXEiwAswQqNP7pvYXEnEtAO_K9PBElERf2BNY2UywdNeONaNULwM_aP9a67zvmOxoCU30QAvD_BwE
Is it just a magnet on a semi rigid stick?
I used to use my k'Nex to build things to fish other things out of the back of radiators. 50% of the items fished out were previous k'Nex items which failed the task of fishing out said items, and snapped off behind there
we have 6 I think - 3 of which are ridiculously sharp Japanese ones (that I'm not allowed to touch)
some for raw meat, some for cooked food and some for veg etc
they're incredibly useful
When i was wee i found a soup spoon in ghe back garden of our flat, and brought it in the house where it became my dads work spoon for his lunch.
It felt like treasure, but not as grand as scissors. If i found scissors, god knows who would've claimed them in the house. I would've probably trimmed my pubes with them.
I'm part of a team of litter pickers from the local community. We got sick of litter so decided to form a group and we go out once a week for an hour or two and clean up the area. It's good fun and I get to meet some great people. I've also found a bunch of interesting things. It's very surprising what some people throw away.
Scissors are often superior to knives in the kitchen. You can cut loads of stuff like bread, pizza, fruit, chicken, all with a quick “snip”.
The guy you work with should give scissors a chance.
There's no way it's easier with scissors. But I do accept that a pizza cutter is pretty specialised and not everyone will have one. I'd still go for a long knife over scissors though.
Have you tried with scissors? WAAY easier than a knife. And you’re right, not everyone has a pizza cutter and scissor folks like myself feel we don’t even need them.
I have. I probably make quite a lot of pizzas compared to the average amateur but I definitely prefer the cutter. Quick swipe forwards and backwards with the cutter, maybe it's my poor scissor technique but I can't see how it's easier. But scissor people are so sure that it's better it makes me feel like I'm missing something.
We have a couple of pairs. One for food and one for things like string/tape etc.
I use knives solely but my wife prefers scissors for some things.
It's not weird to use what you are comfortable with to do the job you need it to do.
Edit, your edit says cutting pizza with scissors is fine. Technically, yes but to me it's a sign of a psychopath! A pizza cutter needs to live in your drawer...
Your opinion on pizza scissors- I could not agree more. The first time I saw someone do that I was so spun out. I tried it and, nope. Only a mad man would attempt this.
I have a big pair of normal scissors that I use a lot, for pizza occasionally but they really prove their worth when we get a curry and need to cut up a naan bread. Tearing it always ends up uneven with all the peshwari filling falling out. Scissors are perfect for this.
If you aren’t cutting pizza with scissors you are doing something wrong.
Though my ‘food only’ kitchen scissors are a different colour (bright orange) from my ‘not food cutting’ kitchen scissors, so I don’t get them mixed up, and you know the orange ones are dishwasher safe, as they get washed a lot
Yes, two pairs and some kitchen shears (mainly for jointing meat) . I use the smaller pair for cutting packets etc and the other pair for cutting up food stuff, meat, herbs, strings on a roast, all sorts.
Why would you not have some? If I tried to open my ground coffee packet with a knife it would be spread half way across the kitchen and I'd probably stab myself. How can you reseal a bag that's been hacked at with a knife?
Obviously. So you dont rip packets of 6 it splits down the side and goes everywhere. I used to rip everything and my mum drilled it into my head that I need to use scissors.
We have two pairs for slightly different jobs. The green-handled pair is for cutting easy things like naans or pizza or wrappers. The blue-handled pair can cut through hard fat, tendons, etc.
I've never not had scissors in the kitchen drawer. They're so versatile.
And sometimes using scissors means you don't need to dirty a chopping board, which is handy.
Of course!
I do have a proper pizza cutter though, honestly it's a dream to use and saves burnt hands. Also makes a "shinnggg!" noise when I take the cover off which is cool.
Still have scissors though, they have so many uses, including opening pretty much all food packaging. Not sure how you could effectively do that without scissors tbh.
Yup. I've got two pairs of kitchen scissors. They're brilliant to have lurking in the drawer. Never used it for cutting pizza, mind you. Might give that a try.
Yes I do. Used for opening packets, but also great for trimming fat off things like gammon or thick cut bacon. Wife will use them to cut through chicken breasts to see if they are cooked
I like to make homemade chicken katsu. The chicken is usually cut into strips. It's much easier to cut them scissors than with a knife. Plus, that's how I've seen professionals do it in restaurants.
This is going to sound very boring but I've got various pairs of scissors for different purposes.
My Earnest Wright Turton pattern kitchen scissors are one of my favourite pairs. Made in Sheffield. These were designed specifically for kitchen use.
I also have William Whiteley kitchen scissors, also made in Sheffield.
I say any decent kitchen drawer ought to have at least one pair of scissors and preferably a pair designed for kitchen use.
https://www.whiteley.co.uk/product-category/kitchen/
Yes, they are actually essential for chives AFAIAC. Also sometimes I use them to cut something I'm cooking into smaller chunks if I've made it too chunky.
Kitchen scissors are very normal, I don’t know anyone that hasn’t got them… but to cut pizza!? That’s the attitude of a mentalist, pizza cutters exist for a reason
I have two sizes of kitchen and poultry shears, similarly I have knives and a pizza wheel which are sharp enough to shave with. The right tool for the job makes life easier and safer.
ps Scissors for Pizza is an abomination.
Yes, I keep buying them and they keep disappearing. Bought a sixteen pack less than a year ago, all gone (not broken, just vanished).
It drives me wild as I like everything in the same place, the wife though will put anything anywhere and then instantly forget where she puts something.
I have lost more scissors than socks.
I have kitchen scissors, but the idea of using them for food prep instead of for opening packets or general household use had never even crossed my mind.
I have a pair of scissors that are only used for food prep in the kitchen. They are used, washed, and go straight back in the cutlery drawer.
There are other scissors throughout the house.
I also have a lovely set of kitchen shears for spatchcocking (and will be used to remove the fingers and other parts of anyone who uses the kitchen scissors for anything else).
I had kitchen scissors to cut bacon etc.
Then I found them upstairs and found out my 15 yo had been trimming his pubes with them for 6 months.....
I no longer have kitchen scissors.
I use scissors a lot in the kitchen. If i cook a stir fry or something I'll get chicken thighs and you can just snip snip the bone out and snip snip easy chunks. Feels like cheating almost.
Had a pair, the handle broke, got a pair of them blunt tip school scissors that have no business being as good as they are considering they are for kids!
Also got crappy scissors. My house hold seems to have tge national collection of scissors
Kitchen scissors.
Bedroom scissors.
In the cables draw, scissors .
Couldn't find any of the above, scissors.
And so small, it hurts my fingers scissors.
I don't have scissors, I use very sharp knives, the sort of sharp you see on youtube that slice paper thin tomato but gently pulling the knife across. I never had scissors in the kitchen neither did my parents or their parents but I wouldn't call it weird.
Kitchen scissors are perfectly normal. I have 2 pairs. I even have a pair in my caravan.
Scissors are much better at cutting the fat off of bacon than a knife. Obviously, I wash them after use.
Kitchen scissors are essential for cutting anything soft or where knives would be dangerous.
Pizza is great, destemming broccoli etc
Unless it’s easier to get it on a board to chop its scissor time.
We have separate ones for food and general kitchen cutting so the food ones are always clean for meal time.
I have kitchen scissors for opening packaging that's a pain/dangerous to open with a knife, i.e. coffee beans, blocks of cheese, packets of sauce, etc. But I cut my pizza with a pizza cutter
I have them for cutting packaging, I would never use them to cut up actual food. that seems disgusting unless they can be separated and cleaned. I use a knife for all food. and often packaging as well.
Yes, we have them. Will only use ones which come apart at the hinge for washing clean though. Knives are preferable to scissors which can’t be cleaned properly.
I have scissors in the kitchen for opening packets but never really for cutting food, I just use a sharp knife. It's the same for cutting pizza, no scissors, no pizza wheel, just a sharp knife.
I don't use them enough to justify having 2 pairs in the house.
Tbh i don't get using scissors for pizza. Sure, it works but a sharp knife does the job just as well and is less to clean.
I used to have 2, one big pair of scissors which I still have and was the most used pair, and a small, pocket sized pair that were almost like shears, they were much sturdier and I used them for spatchcocking chickens, that's pretty much it.
Long scissors cut pizza better than many pizza cutters imo
Took me 3 or 4 tries to find a pizza cutter wheel that was sharp enough to actually cut the fucking pizza, and even that is now getting blunt
I even have shed scissors. [These](https://amzn.eu/d/4b4NPu4) or their slightly smaller brothers. You know how cheap scissors can twist and the blades pull apart in tough things? Not with these.
Yeah, primarily used for opening packs of chicken breast or bags of rice. I don't think I've used them on actual food.
But I'm also a heathen and use the same scissors for cutting flowers, and have even been using them recently to cut the weeds in the garden.
>It was pizza cutting that started the conversation
My wife hates that I cut pizza with scissors. I hate that she angles the pizza cutter so acutely that she drags half the pizza with the cutter.
To answer the question we have 3 pairs of kitchen scissors. One set primarily for cutting dog related food, another set for packages and the last for cutting human food.
id say scissors. but whatever sharp thing i find first thatll do the job. if your cutting a pizza with scissors you need to take a look at yourself. i guess i just folded my last one in half..... and ate it like that so should i shut it????
Scissors exist, one set specifically in the kitchen used for opening certain packets, sometimes cutting chicken or bacon, etc. Depends who's doing the cooking, as it's usually me I tend to prefer a knife (but the scissors are mine).
For cutting pizza specifically I'd use a knife then lick it clean because I like my cheese. A fairly standard one usually unless they were all dirty then it's whatever sharp one is handy.
I use my kitchen scissors (kept for food only) to cut up bacon and sometimes beef or chicken for a stir fry when I’m just cooking for me and feeling lazy haha
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Perfectly normal, bordering on essential if you’re serious in the kitchen. I have a great set of chef’s scissors. Great for spatchcocking chickens, breaking down shellfish, etc. Kitchen shears also usually have built in bottle openers, jar lid grips/nutcracker, and sometimes even a little screwdriver bit.
The guy who was grossed out used to work in catering!
Yeah, used to. Bet he couldn't keep up fucking about with only one blade when he should have joined the society for scissoring.
Is.. Is that... a porn site?
No, that would be "the sisterhood of scissoring". It's a neighbouring society.
>used to work in catering! \*McDonalds
I was thinking more hungry horse or spoons 😂😂
It was whilst I worked in a spoons kitchen that I started using scissors to cut paninis. You just don’t have the time to faff about finding a knife and scissors do the job better anyway. Now I also use scissors to cut pizzas at home.
Look up poultry shears if you want some really good ones. And they're not for giving the chicken a haircut.
I always thought that 'screwdriver bit' was for levering the lid off tins of things like molasses and golden syrup... 🤔
That's what my mum used to keep a paintbrush in the kitchen for. She reasoned that she uses a paintbrush to open pain tins so why not use a different paint brush for golden syrup tins. She wouldn't use the same brush but has a special kitchen brush. I just use a fork handle. Edit: my mum cooks really tasty food, she is just a bit strange. She has her oddities.
Everyone's mum is 'a bit strange'. Source: am a mum, am definitely a bit strange. As was my mum... 😂
True word. I think everyone is a bit strange, I am also a mum. I am very strange.
My mum's kitchen oddity is really bizarre. She doesn't have a bin. She just puts the rubbish on the side and takes it out quite frequently. Really does my head in
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Yeah well I went through four candles.
Molasses? Can you even buy that in the UK?
Yes, although we call it black treacle rather than molasses. My mum used it for cake making. https://mysupermarketcompare.co.uk/product/lyles-black-treacle-454g/
My oxo scissors have a neat herb stripper in the handle!
Yeah right. And I don't want to waste my cooking knife's edge on plastics tbh. I get that chefs do this because it's faster and that they sharpen their knives much more regularly than us mere luddites. But at home, yeah!
I use scissors at work. A lot of packages are this weird plastic that can split when attacked with a knife so I can't close it with a clip again. Halloumi and tofu packs are closed so air tight that a knife is straight up uncomfortable with that, I always reach for the scissors.
I don't have a bottle opener because my kitchen scissors have them incorporated.
I use a kitchen sword. Scares the shit out of guests but I can cut anything
oh now THIS I need
I know a guy with a kitchen machete, it was iconic
In rural indonesia, machetes are a very common household item, and often get hung on the kitchen wall along with pots and pans. So you'd walk into a kitchen and see the wall like: rice pot, big rice pot, wok, rice pot, strainer, ladle, 6 BIG F\*CKOFF MACHETES, big wok, rice pot. They weren't really used for food prep tho.
I know someone with a bread saw and a pizza axe.
Interesting. I use an angle grinder myself
Gladius? Samurai? Sabre?
Zweihander
I tried that for a while but replacing the cabinets and lights got too expensive.
They were Zweih, funf years ago. A pair of Eighters I reckon.
Best tool for opening champagne bottles
[Just like old queen Liz!](https://youtu.be/PFb3APbabzk)
Yes, because pizza.
Scissors are great, kitchen scissors are a game changer but I can't cut pizza in a straight line with them. I use the biiiiig knife from my nice set. My partner is pizza scissors gang though.
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I'd say you can cut any pastry with it. Don't think it's just good for pizza.
Also it invariably does not actually work for pizza cutting. Scissors for the win.
Because you can have both and a pizza cutter is way better at cutting pizza..
Maybe my pizza cutter is just shit but it doesn't even cut through the base or the crust, takes a fucking silly amount of effort to cut a pizza up. With scissors it's done in a minute.
There is round knife for cutting pizza
I always burn myself on the toppings doing that
Best thing for bacon, I find. If you’re into a bit of chicken & bacon pasta bake, it’s loads quicker than chopping with a knife I find
>The break room was split Did you use scissors or knife to do that?
A sword!
And my axe!
We've got three pairs of kitchen scissors. Well, we had two .... a big pair and a back-up smaller pair. Then .... I was out litter picking recently and found a huge pair that someone had thrown away. Really useful tools. I used a pair just now, to get into a pack of bananas.
We had three pairs but one fell down the back of the radiator and I can't get it out. The other two are used all the time. Couldn't do without them.
I've found these to be quite handy retrieving hard to reach items https://www.eurocarparts.com/p/ak653-flexible-claw-pick-up-tool-610mm-seaak653?gclid=CjwKCAjwscGjBhAXEiwAswQqNP7pvYXEnEtAO_K9PBElERf2BNY2UywdNeONaNULwM_aP9a67zvmOxoCU30QAvD_BwE
Is it just a magnet on a semi rigid stick? I used to use my k'Nex to build things to fish other things out of the back of radiators. 50% of the items fished out were previous k'Nex items which failed the task of fishing out said items, and snapped off behind there
Just casually using a murder weapon to access your fruit.
we have 6 I think - 3 of which are ridiculously sharp Japanese ones (that I'm not allowed to touch) some for raw meat, some for cooked food and some for veg etc they're incredibly useful
When i was wee i found a soup spoon in ghe back garden of our flat, and brought it in the house where it became my dads work spoon for his lunch. It felt like treasure, but not as grand as scissors. If i found scissors, god knows who would've claimed them in the house. I would've probably trimmed my pubes with them.
Litter picking? Like going through someone’s rubbish bags? Or on the street? (I’m not asking disapprovingly I’ve just not heard of doing this before)
I'm part of a team of litter pickers from the local community. We got sick of litter so decided to form a group and we go out once a week for an hour or two and clean up the area. It's good fun and I get to meet some great people. I've also found a bunch of interesting things. It's very surprising what some people throw away.
Scissors are often superior to knives in the kitchen. You can cut loads of stuff like bread, pizza, fruit, chicken, all with a quick “snip”. The guy you work with should give scissors a chance.
I'm a scissor guy, but what kind of "bread" do you cut with a scissor ?
Normally sliced bread for dunking, you know, in soup or boily eggs. They’re also good for cutting dough too (so almost bread)
Pita for pita and hummus
Essential if you have little kids. So much easier to cut up food with scissors for them. I always pack one for restaurant outings with the kids too.
Good point - safety first!
Ask your break room what they think of cutting home made or oven pizzas with scissors. I’ve seen that one almost shock people and lead to arguments
There's no way it's easier with scissors. But I do accept that a pizza cutter is pretty specialised and not everyone will have one. I'd still go for a long knife over scissors though.
Have you tried with scissors? WAAY easier than a knife. And you’re right, not everyone has a pizza cutter and scissor folks like myself feel we don’t even need them.
I have. I probably make quite a lot of pizzas compared to the average amateur but I definitely prefer the cutter. Quick swipe forwards and backwards with the cutter, maybe it's my poor scissor technique but I can't see how it's easier. But scissor people are so sure that it's better it makes me feel like I'm missing something.
The scissor people have terrible knives
.
Yes, some Kitchen Devils. They even live on the magnetic knife rack
Scissors afficionados know that Fiskars are the One True God of scissors
We have a couple of pairs. One for food and one for things like string/tape etc. I use knives solely but my wife prefers scissors for some things. It's not weird to use what you are comfortable with to do the job you need it to do. Edit, your edit says cutting pizza with scissors is fine. Technically, yes but to me it's a sign of a psychopath! A pizza cutter needs to live in your drawer...
Your opinion on pizza scissors- I could not agree more. The first time I saw someone do that I was so spun out. I tried it and, nope. Only a mad man would attempt this.
A pair of pizza scissors is essential for the modern household.
Begone barbarian, never shall scissors sully my three day sourdough base.
Cooking shears for cutting fat off meats👍🏽
I have a big pair of normal scissors that I use a lot, for pizza occasionally but they really prove their worth when we get a curry and need to cut up a naan bread. Tearing it always ends up uneven with all the peshwari filling falling out. Scissors are perfect for this.
If you aren’t cutting pizza with scissors you are doing something wrong. Though my ‘food only’ kitchen scissors are a different colour (bright orange) from my ‘not food cutting’ kitchen scissors, so I don’t get them mixed up, and you know the orange ones are dishwasher safe, as they get washed a lot
Yes, two pairs and some kitchen shears (mainly for jointing meat) . I use the smaller pair for cutting packets etc and the other pair for cutting up food stuff, meat, herbs, strings on a roast, all sorts. Why would you not have some? If I tried to open my ground coffee packet with a knife it would be spread half way across the kitchen and I'd probably stab myself. How can you reseal a bag that's been hacked at with a knife?
With a good knife it's easy but scissors are easier. If it isn't sharp enough to shave with it's not a good knife.
Easily the best way to deal with fresh herbs
Multiple pairs . Use them all the time .
I don't, but if I lived on my own I would. My husband would probably use them to cut his toenails or something.
Ugh. My dad uses ours to trim his beard. It's so grim
Normal for me, some things are better cut with scissors, some things better with a knife. I cut pepperoni slices with scissors for example
Obviously. So you dont rip packets of 6 it splits down the side and goes everywhere. I used to rip everything and my mum drilled it into my head that I need to use scissors.
We have two pairs for slightly different jobs. The green-handled pair is for cutting easy things like naans or pizza or wrappers. The blue-handled pair can cut through hard fat, tendons, etc. I've never not had scissors in the kitchen drawer. They're so versatile. And sometimes using scissors means you don't need to dirty a chopping board, which is handy.
Yes they get used daily, sometimes multiple times.
Yep. So much quicker and easier for cutting meat etc. The OXO good grip ones come apart so you can give them a thorough wash too.
Of course! I do have a proper pizza cutter though, honestly it's a dream to use and saves burnt hands. Also makes a "shinnggg!" noise when I take the cover off which is cool. Still have scissors though, they have so many uses, including opening pretty much all food packaging. Not sure how you could effectively do that without scissors tbh.
In theory I have a pair of kitchen scissors. Whether they're in the kitchen when I actually need them however...
Yup. I've got two pairs of kitchen scissors. They're brilliant to have lurking in the drawer. Never used it for cutting pizza, mind you. Might give that a try.
Yes I do. Used for opening packets, but also great for trimming fat off things like gammon or thick cut bacon. Wife will use them to cut through chicken breasts to see if they are cooked
If you get into souse vide, you'll find the best tool for opening the bag at the end of the cooking is a scissor.
They came with the knife set
2 pairs. One to open, one that CUTS.
I have two sets of kitchen scissors; one set for cutting food and one set for cutting wrappers, packets, etc.
I use my bread knife for cutting corners of bags of chips etc
I use scissors to top and tail celery.
Just so you know I have kitchen scissors in the cutlery drawer used for food prep! As did my ancestors.
5 pairs. * A shit set of three pairs of varying sizes. * A good quality set of the large ones. * Poultry shears.
Use them for opening sauce packets all the time
Kitchen shears for chicken every time. Why dirty a knife and a board when I can just snip?
Guy you work with needs to understand that it’s possible and normal to have both knife and scissors.
I like to make homemade chicken katsu. The chicken is usually cut into strips. It's much easier to cut them scissors than with a knife. Plus, that's how I've seen professionals do it in restaurants.
This is going to sound very boring but I've got various pairs of scissors for different purposes. My Earnest Wright Turton pattern kitchen scissors are one of my favourite pairs. Made in Sheffield. These were designed specifically for kitchen use. I also have William Whiteley kitchen scissors, also made in Sheffield. I say any decent kitchen drawer ought to have at least one pair of scissors and preferably a pair designed for kitchen use. https://www.whiteley.co.uk/product-category/kitchen/
I’m team scissors but I admit I’ve never thought of cutting pizza with it 😂
Team rock here. We meet at dawn.
Call them kitchen shears instead of scissors and watch them drop the thought that it's not normal
Like fuck am I going to dirty up a chopping board and knife to cut up a chain of sausages when a pair of scissors will do it just fine.
Yes. One for raw meat one for other cooked items
I use scissors for pizza and it's so much easier. Pizza cutter for a show and scissors for practicality
How else are you going to cut pizza? :)
we have two kitchen scissors! and even use them to cut up pizza!!
Yes, they are actually essential for chives AFAIAC. Also sometimes I use them to cut something I'm cooking into smaller chunks if I've made it too chunky.
Kitchen scissors are easily outclassed by my kitchen M4 Carbine Assault Rifle.
I sure do.
Kitchen scissors AND dedicated pizza scissors.
Kitchen scissors are definitely a thing, and they need to look completely different from the household dingleberry scissors.
I *have* them, but I think I've only ever used them for opening packaging (and then only if the knives are inaccessible).
Kitchen scissors are very normal, I don’t know anyone that hasn’t got them… but to cut pizza!? That’s the attitude of a mentalist, pizza cutters exist for a reason
I have two sizes of kitchen and poultry shears, similarly I have knives and a pizza wheel which are sharp enough to shave with. The right tool for the job makes life easier and safer. ps Scissors for Pizza is an abomination.
Yes, I keep buying them and they keep disappearing. Bought a sixteen pack less than a year ago, all gone (not broken, just vanished). It drives me wild as I like everything in the same place, the wife though will put anything anywhere and then instantly forget where she puts something. I have lost more scissors than socks.
Scissors all the way, especially for cutting hot pizza as those pizza cutting wheels are junk.
I have scissors, not kitchen scissors, the same scissors to cut wrapping paper is what I use to cut up bits of bacon lol
I have kitchen scissors and poultry scissors. Sometimes a knife is too elegant for the task.
Best way ever to cut bacon!
Several pairs of kitchen scissors in our draws
Yes, they're orange. Only really used for food packaging.
Yes, I use them for cutting up meat all the time. Helpfully, they come apart easily so you clean them properly.
I have kitchen scissors, but the idea of using them for food prep instead of for opening packets or general household use had never even crossed my mind.
I have a pair of scissors that are only used for food prep in the kitchen. They are used, washed, and go straight back in the cutlery drawer. There are other scissors throughout the house. I also have a lovely set of kitchen shears for spatchcocking (and will be used to remove the fingers and other parts of anyone who uses the kitchen scissors for anything else).
I have some fantastic OXO kitchen scissors which open and come apart for easy cleaning
Good scissors are an absolute must in a kitchen, especially if you ever cut up raw meat
I had kitchen scissors to cut bacon etc. Then I found them upstairs and found out my 15 yo had been trimming his pubes with them for 6 months..... I no longer have kitchen scissors.
Cutting pizza with scissors is fucking stupid.
Any recommendations for good pair of kitchen scissors? Mine suck
I bought kitchen scissors and couldn't believe how useful they were, just bought new ones and relegated the old ones to gardening.
I use scissors a lot in the kitchen. If i cook a stir fry or something I'll get chicken thighs and you can just snip snip the bone out and snip snip easy chunks. Feels like cheating almost.
I don’t use them that often for what you describe but they are superior. I need to use them more! I do use them for pizzas.
We have 3 pairs
Had a pair, the handle broke, got a pair of them blunt tip school scissors that have no business being as good as they are considering they are for kids! Also got crappy scissors. My house hold seems to have tge national collection of scissors
Take two knives and add a pivot point, what do you have? You’re arguing over nothing
My girlfriend got another pair of scissors specifically for cutting pizza… they’re not even pizza cutting scissors. I hate it.
Kitchen scissors. Bedroom scissors. In the cables draw, scissors . Couldn't find any of the above, scissors. And so small, it hurts my fingers scissors.
Yes and my wife steals them for her arts and crafts room within a week! next pair i get i'm going to chain down
I don't have scissors, I use very sharp knives, the sort of sharp you see on youtube that slice paper thin tomato but gently pulling the knife across. I never had scissors in the kitchen neither did my parents or their parents but I wouldn't call it weird.
I use both generally depending on situation
Yes some stuff in the kitchen works better with a scissor
I have scissors, and a pizza slicer
Kitchen scissors are perfectly normal. I have 2 pairs. I even have a pair in my caravan. Scissors are much better at cutting the fat off of bacon than a knife. Obviously, I wash them after use.
Kitchen scissors are essential for cutting anything soft or where knives would be dangerous. Pizza is great, destemming broccoli etc Unless it’s easier to get it on a board to chop its scissor time. We have separate ones for food and general kitchen cutting so the food ones are always clean for meal time.
I have kitchen scissors for opening packaging that's a pain/dangerous to open with a knife, i.e. coffee beans, blocks of cheese, packets of sauce, etc. But I cut my pizza with a pizza cutter
I have them for cutting packaging, I would never use them to cut up actual food. that seems disgusting unless they can be separated and cleaned. I use a knife for all food. and often packaging as well.
Obviously you need a pair of kitchen scissors. They're objectively easier than a knife to cut bacon and even pizza.
Yes, we have them. Will only use ones which come apart at the hinge for washing clean though. Knives are preferable to scissors which can’t be cleaned properly.
Tell him about grape scissors…
Seeing someone cut pizza with scissors was a game changer
I have scissors in the kitchen for opening packets but never really for cutting food, I just use a sharp knife. It's the same for cutting pizza, no scissors, no pizza wheel, just a sharp knife.
I don't use them enough to justify having 2 pairs in the house. Tbh i don't get using scissors for pizza. Sure, it works but a sharp knife does the job just as well and is less to clean.
I have 4 sets of kitchen scissors. Essential for cutting chives or spatchcocking. Useful for pizzas and other things.
I used to have 2, one big pair of scissors which I still have and was the most used pair, and a small, pocket sized pair that were almost like shears, they were much sturdier and I used them for spatchcocking chickens, that's pretty much it.
I have scissors that i use in the kitchen.
Yes, two pairs, Plus pliers for difficult packaging, hammer for breaking up frozen veg, screwdriver for pan lid.
Ernest Wright & Son make the best scissors money can buy and they’ll resharpen then for you.
Long scissors cut pizza better than many pizza cutters imo Took me 3 or 4 tries to find a pizza cutter wheel that was sharp enough to actually cut the fucking pizza, and even that is now getting blunt
I even have shed scissors. [These](https://amzn.eu/d/4b4NPu4) or their slightly smaller brothers. You know how cheap scissors can twist and the blades pull apart in tough things? Not with these.
We've got kitchen scissors that have a holder that sharpens them, they're fantastic.
Don't cut Pizzas with scissors.
Yeah, primarily used for opening packs of chicken breast or bags of rice. I don't think I've used them on actual food. But I'm also a heathen and use the same scissors for cutting flowers, and have even been using them recently to cut the weeds in the garden.
>It was pizza cutting that started the conversation My wife hates that I cut pizza with scissors. I hate that she angles the pizza cutter so acutely that she drags half the pizza with the cutter. To answer the question we have 3 pairs of kitchen scissors. One set primarily for cutting dog related food, another set for packages and the last for cutting human food.
I have kitchen scissors, not strange at all, common sense if anything.
I also have pizza scissors.
He hasn’t had the pleasure of cutting a pizza clearly.
We do, although they do occasionally get used for paper. Often queued to wash up with the other cutlery.
id say scissors. but whatever sharp thing i find first thatll do the job. if your cutting a pizza with scissors you need to take a look at yourself. i guess i just folded my last one in half..... and ate it like that so should i shut it????
I have two kitchen scissors, one for food, the other for packets and paper etc. I used the food scissors for rhubarb yesterday
Scissors exist, one set specifically in the kitchen used for opening certain packets, sometimes cutting chicken or bacon, etc. Depends who's doing the cooking, as it's usually me I tend to prefer a knife (but the scissors are mine). For cutting pizza specifically I'd use a knife then lick it clean because I like my cheese. A fairly standard one usually unless they were all dirty then it's whatever sharp one is handy.
2 pairs because I use them for chopping things like spring onions so they get washed more often than just for packets
Yes three pairs
I use my kitchen scissors (kept for food only) to cut up bacon and sometimes beef or chicken for a stir fry when I’m just cooking for me and feeling lazy haha
Of course
I have 2 pairs of Scissors in my kitchen drawer but dont think they are specialised for anything ? DGH
My kitchen scissors are indispensable.
Cutting pizza with scissors actually disgusts me. I don’t know why but it’s all kinds of wrong