How do you use scissors in the kitchen?

Japan
July 29, 2022 2:24am CST
How do you use scissors in the kitchen? I use mine in a number of ways. I open packages of food with them. It seems like the food industry likes to make sure we can't get into any packets without a considerable amount of effort or a sharp blade! I cut up meat with them. I cut leafy vegetables with them. I also cut beansprouts, because I hate them dripping across my chin. I cut cooked vegetables if needed. I cut cooked noodles, like spaghetti or ramen. This is a trick I learned when I visited South Korea. I went to a restaurant where we were served a bowl of noodles, and the waitress brought the bowl to the table and then pulled out scissors and cut the noodles both directions. That made them a lot easier to eat than ramen! And if I so happen to receive a package in the mail, I grab a pair of trusty scissors to open it. I love scissors so much in my kitchen that when I cleaned out a drawer, instead of the two pair I knew I had, I found four more pairs!
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@luisga814 (6913)
• Quezon City, Philippines
29 Jul 22
Scissors in the kitchen will be used in cutting fish fins.
• Japan
29 Jul 22
Ah, yes, if I bought fish whole I would do that too. I only buy already-cut ones. I don't buy fish much because I am not good at cooking it.
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• Japan
29 Jul 22
@luisga814 I tend to buy shark or tuna so there is no way I would be cutting the fins.
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@luisga814 (6913)
• Quezon City, Philippines
29 Jul 22
@petatonicsca Oh. Normally we do that also but most of the time we're the one who cut fins.
@MarieCoyle (28517)
2 Aug 22
I have two pairs of kitchen shears. They are hinged and come apart easily for washing. One pair belongs to one of my grandmothers. I use them for actual food--trimming fat from meats, helping to de-skin raw chicken, snipping green onions into tiny pieces, and so forth. The other pair is for opening those impossible to open packages you speak of, those little Amazon type bubble packages, and just basic kitchen opening stuff. When my kids all left home, and I cleaned out everything left behind to move myself elsewhere, I kept finding scissors, ended up with like 8 pairs. Passed them out to the kids. Of course I have sewing scissors, but I guard them with my life and they are stashed where only I know where they are.
• Japan
2 Aug 22
My mother never used scissors in the kitchen but if we touched her sewing scissors, oh boy, we would hear about it!
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@MarieCoyle (28517)
2 Aug 22
@petatonicsca A good pair of sewing scissors is a treasure. Not cheap to replace, and once they've been used on paper and other things kids seem to like to chop up, that's all they are good for. My grandmothers both sewed and did fancy embroidery. They drilled it in to me, don't ever let anyone use your sewing scissors! And I just don't!
@marguicha (215428)
• Chile
29 Jul 22
I use my scissors for all of that except pasta.
• Japan
29 Jul 22
The pasta trick I would never have thought of myself.
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@marguicha (215428)
• Chile
30 Jul 22
@petatonicsca I like to have the fork and a spoon take care of the spaghetti
@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
29 Jul 22
I only use scissors to open packages in the kitchen. Special strong scissors to cut plastic to recycle.
@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
29 Jul 22
@petatonicsca They are, I have good scissors but I am always careful, it's easy to get injured by plastic.
• Japan
29 Jul 22
Plastic packages can be a real pain to cut.
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@JudyEv (325787)
• Rockingham, Australia
31 Jul 22
I have a pair of scissors in most rooms of the house but I don't use them as much as you do in the kitchen. But then, I'm not in the kitchen much. Vince does most of our cooking. I must ask him if he uses scissors!!
@JudyEv (325787)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Aug 22
@petatonicsca Believe me, I know how lucky I am.
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• Japan
2 Aug 22
I would not be in the kitchen either if someone else would cook for me!
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29 Jul 22
I use them for chicken, much easier than my knives which were never supposed to need sharpening but clearly do
• Japan
29 Jul 22
Yes, I think it's much easier.
• Philippines
29 Jul 22
Apart from all that you've mentioned, I also use them to cut cooked noodles or pasta! I don't know how I'd thrive in the kitchen without my kitchen scissors. Sometimes they do a better job than my knives, especially when I need to mince meat or cut up some vegetables. My scissors are totally indispensable.
@Nakitakona (56302)
• Philippines
29 Jul 22
We have a pair of scissors in the kitchen as a handy aid in cutting foods wrapper, seasoning, noodles, meat, among others.