Kitchen shears

[Alpo]

I thought - frequently problems occur when I think - that kitchen shears easily separated into two pieces for cleaning. That if you opened them almost all the way open they would separate at the hinge.

 

So I was just shopping, up the river in Brazil, for some and none of them appear to come apart.

 

Have I been confused all these years? Did they used to come apart but for some reason they decided that's a bad feature and they don't do it anymore? Or am I just looking in the wrong place?

[Eyesa Horg]

Ours come apart, but they are probably 35 or more years old.

[DeaconKC]

Hear the music...

"Lookin' for lugs in all the wrong places..."
 

[Alpo]

5 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Ours come apart, but they are probably 35 or more years old.

So either I'm looking at the wrong ones or they did use to do it but they don't know more.

 

Well at least my memory seems to be working.

 

And that's really amazing.

[Calamity Kris]

Mine do.  Only a couple of years old. 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Wusthof-Pull-Apart-Kitchen-Shears-5558-1/dp/B00K8503NQ?pd_rd_w=OqefH&content-id=amzn1.sym.ea1d9533-fbb7-4608-bb6f-bfdceb6f6336&pf_rd_p=ea1d9533-fbb7-4608-bb6f-bfdceb6f6336&pf_rd_r=HESFET9Y858324H69HZZ&pd_rd_wg=HaARn&pd_rd_r=76c92dd0-ac5f-4717-805b-519c1fb2c468&ref_=sspa_dk_detail_1&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9kZXRhaWxfdGhlbWF0aWM&th=1

 

[Alpo]

That solved my problem. I went back and did a search on COME APART kitchen shears, and they gave me all sorts of choices. Originally I was just looking for kitchen shears.

 

Thank you Kris.

[Pat Riot]

Cheap ones don’t good ones usually do. 

18 minutes ago, Calamity Kris said:

Mine do.  Only a couple of years old. 

Ooh I like the look of those. Thank you Kris. I am adding these to my list. 
 

I have some Victorinox kitchen shear but they have this indent that drives me nuts. 

[Stump Water]

While you're at it, get some poultry shears too.  Very handy when "scissors" won't cut it.

[Calamity Kris]

8 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

Ooh I like the look of those. Thank you Kris. I am adding these to my list. 

 

I like them quite a bit.  They also work well as poultry sheers, AS LONG AS I CAN KEEP UNO FROM CUTTING PACKAGING WITH THEM........

[Eyesa Horg]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

Cheap ones don’t good ones usually do. 

Ooh I like the look of those. Thank you Kris. I am adding these to my list. 
 

I have some Victorinox kitchen shear but they have this indent that drives me nuts. 

Ours have a more pronounced notch than the Vicktorinox. It works good for cutting flower stems, but is generally a PIA.

[Eyesa Horg]

58 minutes ago, Calamity Kris said:

 

I like them quite a bit.  They also work well as poultry sheers, AS LONG AS I CAN KEEP UNO FROM CUTTING PACKAGING WITH THEM........

That's not what they're for ??

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]

Cutco:

[Rip Snorter]

The ones that come apart are handy because you can easily sharpen the edge with a steel, and taken apart they can run through the dishwasher without harm.  Mine must be 40 years old and all brand ID is long gone.

[Pat Riot]

1 hour ago, Calamity Kris said:

 

I like them quite a bit.  They also work well as poultry sheers, AS LONG AS I CAN KEEP UNO FROM CUTTING PACKAGING WITH THEM........

I have the opposite problem. My wife uses the good scissors and shears as box cutters. Drives me nuts! 
 

Oops! Forgot to add that I have bought her box cutters and lock blade knives but she always reaches for the scissors. 

[Rip Snorter]

PM me. I have a big batch of new boxcutters from working days, I'll send you some free.  They are pretty much unbreakable and take standard hardware store single edge razor blades.  

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

9 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

The ones that come apart are handy because you can easily sharpen the edge with a steel, and taken apart they can run through the dishwasher without harm.  Mine must be 40 years old and all brand ID is long gone.

Dish washer without harm? Only if they don’t contact anything metal.

[Rip Snorter]

The arrangement of my washer(s) and baskets makes it easy to keep them separate, and there is no possible harm, or hasn't been down the decades, that isn't easily fixed with a few strokes on the steel.  I don't put good knives in because that is a different situation.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I buy some shears at Harbor Freight.  I use them far more than I do my knives.  They aren't great but they work.  cost under $20.00 for a dozen.

[Choctaw Jack]

The notch is for cutting fish and poultry bones.......

Just sayin'......

[Sedalia Dave]

4 hours ago, Rip Snorter said:

The ones that come apart are handy because you can easily sharpen the edge with a steel, and taken apart they can run through the dishwasher without harm.  Mine must be 40 years old and all brand ID is long gone.

 

4 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Dish washer without harm? Only if they don’t contact anything metal.

 

Dishwasher detergent is caustic enough that it will dull the edge of good knives. Most high end cutlery makers advise against putting their knives in a dishwasher.

[Rip Snorter]

7 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

 

Dishwasher detergent is caustic enough that it will dull the edge of good knives. Most high end cutlery makers advise against putting their knives in a dishwasher.

I can only speak from experience as I have done. Do read what is previously posted.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

3 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

Dishwasher detergent is caustic enough that it will dull the edge of good knives. Most high end cutlery makers advise against putting their knives in a dishwasher.

My knives and measuring cups never go in the DW.