Kitchen shears are an essential component of any cook’s knife kit. We use them for a wide range of tasks—cutting twine and parchment, snipping herbs, trimming pie dough, cutting florets from heads of cauliflower and broccoli, and butterflying chickens, to name just a few.
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I am annoyed that I bought the Henkels shears that came loose and cannot be tightened. That's STUPID. And no I'm not going to bang it with a hammer.
Lisa McManus is such a great tester/equiipment reviewer. She is really effective at describing things in a way that you understand exactly what is going on with the products that are being tested.
Interesting video, but I have to ask, why didn't you include in your test – Ernest Wright shears (2 different models), Zwilling shears (Multiple models), and Cutco shears? I believe you would find all the shears I just mentioned, as well as many others, far above the shears you tested in this video.
Damn Oxo lost lol
Shun shears are now $40-50
Cauliflower cutting was the strangest demonstration. I can destem and neatly remove all the florettes from a cauli in 6 seconds with my shun pairing knife. Shears are not the best tool for the job.. Also yes im just salty because those shun shears are $90 au on amazon, blows my mind
Next time do it toppless 👍
Yup canto do without the take apart scissors for the kitchen . I use the OXO and had a pair of CUTCO that disappeared . You two are doing a great job . .
Hey guys, hope you read our comments because your recommended Henckels kitchen shears are a whopping $31 dollars on your link to Amazon. The Shun Multi-purpose shears are now $54, not the $27 stated in your review here.
Loose the music.
only 0:59 in this fing channel is fing amainz f'er dang it darn n you all made a good channel good stuff f
Shun is KAI brand from Japan. KAI makes the best tailors scissors in the world. The KAI 7240-AS is engineered to cut Kevlar, Nomex, fiberglass and other fire/puncture resistant fabrics.
nice, are they worth the money? try this guys reviews, he is awesome: Best SCISSORS? 15 Brands: KAI vs Klein Tools, Stanley, Scotch, Henckels, Heritage, Gingher, Acme
https://youtu.be/koqa9YgcmuU
I bought the Shun MP on your recommendation, and they are junk. Mis-aligned blades, and just mediocre in performance…Not worth the money.
Did the price for the Shun shears double since this video was produced?
I wish you had included Dexter Russel sofgrip kitchen shears in your test.
I work for Sam's Club. I use OXO Poultry Shears when I'm putting together Chicken Quarters and Chicken Breasts for our HMS dept. The Shears are great because they have a spring in the handle so there is less tention. The problem with that however is that if you wash the shears enough the glue wears out and the spring falls off. It would be great if they could change the design so that the spring is either molded into the handle or if it were secured into place with a screw. I really like scissors/shears that come apart. Easier to clean.
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I notice that both of you are right-handed, and neither of you mentioned if the shears are as useful for left-handed people. As a left-handed person, not only have I had to deal with tools that were not made for the comfort of left-handed people, but I have had to deal with tools that were impossible for left-handed people to use. In the future, please inform your viewers if what you are testing is as comfortable for left-handed people to use as they are for right-handed people.
As much as I love Japanese knives (yes I know this vid isn’t on knives) I feel Shun is a poor example of a good Japanese knife, with improper heat treatment making blades brittle. Miyabi is a much better choice IMO. Sorta seems like you guys just jumped on the hyped up Shun bandwagon, they have great marketing though.
Does anyone ever use shears as a nutcracker?
Don't use them on food! Omg…
Any reason why some cheap kitchen scissor blades are encased in plastic? Does not happen with any office scissors.
I have Kershaw shears. They do everything easily, come apart for cleaning. Reasonable price. A real workhorse. Had them at least 15 years.