Kitchen shears are an essential part of every kitchen. The best kitchen shears are those that help to snip herbs and cut open a food package easily and reliably. You could argue that a knife is capable of cutting open a chicken but knives fail miserably when you try to use them to remove the backbone. Shears are also great for lots of assorted tasks, like cutting homemade pizza and opening packages.
Kitchen shears are really the right option more often then you’d think. Read on to learn more about the best kitchen shears on the market.
Pallarès Solsona 8-inch Professional Kitchen Shears
These Spanish-made shears are works of metallurgical art. They aren’t cheap (especially if you get the larger 9-inch size) but they aren’t mortgage-the-house expensive, with an average price of a bit under $100. That’s a lot, but not a deal-breaker for a lifetime purchase. These shears are heavy, super sharp, and look great in any atmosphere. Downsides include very, very pointy tips, the high price, and that fact they are not dishwasher-safe.
Kershaw Taskmaster Kitchen Shears
The Kershaw Taskmaster kitchen shears are one of the best kitchen shears on the market. Their 3.5-inches long blades are made from hardened stainless steel. These blades are designed to deliver the very best performance in the kitchen. They have the following salient features:
- Made from high quality high carbon stainless steel – ideal for cutting your pizza or cleaning your fish
- Versatile because of a straight edge and a saw-toothed edge
- Equipped with a lid lifter
- Uniquely designed handle to help you grip the lid of jars easily
- Bottle opener
- Nutcracker
- Bone notch to help you grab the bones of a poultry item
- Easy to clean dishwasher-safe blades
- Great when you need to trim meat or snip herbs or cut flowers
Wusthof 5558-1 Kitchen Shears
The Wusthof 5558-1 kitchen shears are a very useful item to have in your kitchen. They have power-packed eight-inch long shears that easily cut food, flowers, and more. Here is a look at the features that help to make this one of the best kitchen shears on the market:
- Good balance – works equally well with left-handed and right-handed users
- Blades made from high-carbon stainless steel – inwardly curved to ensure precision cutting
- One of the blades has saw-toothed edges to ensure nothing slips away during the cutting operation
- Easy to remove blades
- Sharpen the blades over and over again
- Insets in the handle ensure easy twisting opening of bottle and jar caps
- Dishwasher-safe shears – though if you want to protect the blades, it is better to wash the shears by hand
Zwilling J.A. Henckels Kitchen Shears
These Zwilling shears (pictured at the top) could easily be called the best kitchen shears because they make every cutting task that much easier. Their impressive features ensure you won’t need to use another pair. This is what you get from this pair of kitchen shears:
- Easily cut food and other items
- Handles a variety of tasks including cutting foods and opening packages
- Precise movement of the blades
- Easy to sharpen the blades
- Dishwasher-safe shears
Mairico Kitchen Shears
The Mairico are an impeccable pair of kitchen shears that can perform a variety of kitchen tasks with ease. They are equally functional within the kitchen as they are outside. Professionally designed, these kitchen shears possess the following features:
- Constructed out of the very best quality and durable stainless-steel material which resists rust and corrosion
- Comfortable handle ensures firm and non-slip contact
- Dishwasher safe though it is better to wash the shears by hand
- Extremely sharp blades ensure maximum precision each time you cut something
- Can execute every kind of kitchen task with ease
- Blades are of a very high quality and are extremely sharp