What are this type of scissors called?
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October 30th, 2021
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There are scissors for the kitchen called “clever cutters”. The concept is the blade is essentially just a kitchen knife. The handle acts to lever the kitchen knife down onto a slim perpendicular cutting surface instead of a traditional pivoted dual blade system.
I’d like a similar design except smaller.
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They are, indeed, called clever cutters.
I had never heard of them, but now that I checked them out, I can see their appeal.
That’s because recently I bought a pair of scissors to cut my chicken fillets, for my cat, and that wasn’t as pleasant as I hoped it would be (the angle was unwieldy; my wrist hurt because of it).
But these look promising.
As a kitchen professional, I’m going to offer that these look like silly gimmicks. Sure it works for a few select ingredients, but it’s going to suck for any kind of cut you’d ever want besides an easy flat chop. The blade comes down like karate-chop action on a GI Joe, with all the power you can squeeze out of your thumb. It looks tedious, painful and short lived.
It’s basically just a kitchen shear with half the cutting edges. I don’t think it needs a category of it’s own, because it fits nicely in the “garbage” category of general kitchen tools.
Anvil cutting tools, use them for cutting clear Tyvek tubing.
I have no trouble cutting chicken breasts into thin slices. I let them almost freeze flat on an inverted cookie pan. Then I put the pan on the counter and I put on gloves and place one palm on top of a breast and use a really sharp knife and slice sideways. I have to bend down to be able see well and be sure I don’t go off at an angle and cut myself. I keep a bunch of these slice in the frreezer separated by wax paper so they are ready to go when I want them. @rebbel
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