If you have a large pair of kitchen scissors, there’s usually a strange, toothy piece between the handles that doesn’t quite get near enough to cut things.
The regular scissor sections of the scissors can be used to snip, snip, snip for an entire day. However, the unique metal jaws located between them serve no purpose.
Since the toothy blades don’t meet in the middle, you can’t truly cut anything with them, even though the whole point of scissors is to cut things.
Fortunately, you can learn almost anything by searching the internet and seeing whether anyone else has inquired about it before you.
Instead of giving advice in person, this new method searches through ancient forums for the one person who submitted the correct answer.
It’s also how many IT problems are fixed; if turning it off and on again doesn’t work, Googling your problem and hoping that some dude from 2011 wrote the solution online will usually do the trick.
Anyway, let’s return to the metal jaws and attach some pairs of scissors to them.
Formally known as ‘kitchen shears,’ these specialized kitchen scissors are quite handy for a variety of cooking duties.
Chief among them is grasping and perhaps shattering anything between those teeth, depending on the amount of force used; it’s essentially a pair of culinary pliers that allows you to better apply your strength to a task.
Your scissors also include a nutcracker, which you may use to snag bones and crunch them down if necessary.
You can also use the teeth to open bottles and jars. Simply sink the teeth into the lid and begin twisting; you’ll have an easier time opening items than with the other techniques of running it under hot water or wrapping a towel over it to improve grip.
Many others online suggested their own practical applications for the device, including ‘running a bone through it to peel the flesh off’ and ‘excellent for splitting lobster claws’.
One person even stated they were ‘quite excellent for pulling the tops off of boiling eggs,’ to which another replied, “What the f**k!?!?” “You changed my life!!”
After receiving the life-changing information, you can share it with your loved ones.
You might want to practice snipping the top off a boiled egg, though; shattering the entire eggshell would be a shame.