What Can You Do with Kitchen Shears?

[Toliver]

Bananas. I use a banana hanger and when I need to remove a banana from the hanging bunch, I use the shears to snip one off. I found that when I would just yank one banana off the bunch while on the hanger, sometimes the peels on the other bananas in the bunch, if too ripe, would start to split. Kitchen shears became the quickest solution.

[maggiethecat]

I found a new application for my kitchen shears last night -- wiggling off that annoying metal band that closes a bag of ice.

[Melic]

Cutting open those !@#$%^&!!*& plastic clamshells that everything seems to get packed in these days.

Like FatGuy, I have 3 different kitchen shears: poultry shears, regular "take apart" kitchen shears, and little red-handled shears.

Sometimes, those plastic clamshells have to be tamed with the poultry shears; the regular kitchen shears just aren't tough enough. Idle question: how in the heck to folks get them open if all they have are regular scissors?

But I digress ...

As someone else already mentioned, I also use my kitchen shears to cut up pizza.

Herbs - yep - the red-handled ones or the regular shears.

And I'll snip stuff in a stew or soup, scissors right in the kettle, if my knife skills (such as they are) have left some things too untouched.

Whatever works ...

[Chris Amirault]

Snipping the roots and ends off of spinach.