As the saying goes, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks." Not true, I'm 80 and have adopted a new "trick". Our habits are strong, but when I heard that many chefs use scissors for many cooking chores, I decided to give it a try. They are great timesavers to use in place of knives! Cut up raw chicken for stir frys, leftover meats for casseroles, cut up peppers, pre-slices onions. Scissors, in 'my book' are better and faster and cleaner than a special wheel cutter for dividing pizza, too! Keep your special food scissors handy and clean!
Yes, they're great, especially the ones for frozen foods and meats. I also truly enjoy my heavy Oriental meat cleaver for large root crop veggies, making cutting them a delight after the first cut in the middle ON THE CUTTING BOARD, of course. : )
I have used mine for a long time and now I finally have gotten my mother at age 83 using them. Talk about an old dog learning new tricks! Hahaha! They are much easier for her than a knife.
I use regular $1 scissors with a plastic handle. I got a magnet hook and hang them on the side of the refrigerator between uses, so I can always find them. They work well for meat, leafy vegetables and even long green onions (in fact they work better for long onions than a knife).
I kind of "wow-ed" my California sis-in-law when I placed fresh parsley in a measuring cup and snipped away till it was nicely chopped. She uses fresh herbs all the time and never had seen that trick. I put the scissors in the dishwasher, too. They make regular kitchen scissors that are supposed to do lots of other things, but I usually use the most inexpensive plastic handled ones I can find.
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