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YOU can have your Cuisinart, your mandoline, your pedigreed santoku knives. I'll take the kitchen shears, thanks.

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YOU can have your Cuisinart, your mandoline, your pedigreed santoku knives. I’ll take the kitchen shears, thanks.

In my kitchen, shears are the utility player that simply gets things done. I reach for them for a whole range of tasks:

Snipping fresh herbs directly into a saucepan.

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Cutting slippery chicken off the bone (or cutting up a chicken because the shears power right through the joints).

Trimming fat from cuts of meat.

Chopping uncooked bacon (again, directly into the pan).

Removing sausage from casings.

Cubing a pork shoulder or beef Quickly cutting gooey candies for cupcake or cookie decorations.

Custom-shaping a kid’s sandwich.

Making a tinfoil cover for pie crust edges.

Creating a waxed paper stencil for sugaring a chocolate cake.

Opening stubborn packages of all sorts.

Cleaning shrimp — simply cut down the back of the shell, which opens the shrimp enough to remove the bad stuff.

Talk about value — I doubt I could cook without my kitchen shears. My insurance? A spare pair.

— Chicago Tribune

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