{"id":27664,"date":"2016-12-07T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=27664"},"modified":"2016-12-07T09:01:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T16:01:08","slug":"heavy-duty-kitchen-shears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/heavy-duty-kitchen-shears\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Duty Kitchen Shears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[This review is from an edited transcript of <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/author-and-editor-gareth-branwyn-cool-tools-show-episode-006\/\">our interview with Gareth Branwyn on the Cool Tools Show<\/a> &#8212; MF] <\/p>\n<p>When I moved into a house in 1999, the owner left it filled with tools from the 1950s. Everything was very high quality. In the kitchen\u2019s top drawer there was a  strange pair of scissors, called &#8220;nutcracker scissors,&#8221; because they have a serrated area inside the handle that looks like it was made for cracking nuts. It actually isn\u2019t. It was made for twist-off bottle tops, but you could also crack nuts with it. The scissors are basically a kitchen multitool of the 1950s. They&#8217;re really optimized. Everything is thought through, and they have a lot of little gadgets on it. There&#8217;s a bottle opener. There&#8217;s a little tab on the thumb hole, which I eventually learned was for lifting the seal on Ball jars. On the outside of the finger hole there&#8217;s a flat surface. I think that&#8217;s just a little hammer for maybe tamping down the jar lid before you do canning. <\/p>\n<p>[Kevin has a similar pair. Here are his comments, also from the episode]: &#8220;They live in our kitchen drawer. We use them for cracking crab, for anything you need to crush, for opening bottles, for cutting through things that you&#8217;re gonna eat. Sometimes we use it instead of a knife &#8212; we&#8217;ll cut things up instead of a knife, like shearing vegetables.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multi-purpose cutters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27807,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27664\/revisions\/27807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}