Poultry Shears
A well-designed set of poultry shears, with its notched and serrated blade, offers a perfect chef’s tool to take most of the exertion out of meat preparation.

A versatile set of professional-quality kitchen shears, sized 6 – 12.6-inch in length, with a hardened stainless steel blade offers a perfect piece of equipment to cut a chicken breast - these balanced shears cut through joints and bones to make parting a breeze. Scissors with tapered or curved blade edges offers ease in reaching the more difficult places, and those with a bone breaking design offer a great cutting force and lasting efficiency.

Popular models of poultry scissors consist of –

• The Oxo Good Grips Professional Poultry Shears, with its curved blades, spring-loaded soft-grip handles, micro-serrated blade to grip skin and avoid slippage, while a blade notch is able to secure a bone when cutting. Blades split apart for easy and thorough cleaning or sharpening and retails at $27.95.

• The J.A. Henckels Poultry Shears, at 12.5 x 4 x 1.5-inch, offers a high-carbon blade, with micro-serrated edges to resist pitting, stains, and rust. A lever safety-lock and bone-breaking handle provides strength and comfort – retailing at $25.00.

Besides its use at chopping poultry, a pair of these scissors is also great to open packages, snip herbs, trim flowers, crab, twine and similar kitchen or household necessities.

Whether it is for meat prep to cut joints, bones or snip herbs, a quality set of poultry shears, with its safe, comfortable grip and bone-breaking construction, makes an essential kitchen tool.