I eat lots of meat, and i store most of it in the freezer.
My cooking therefore generally involves lots of cutting up meat into small manageable chunks, often for curries and stir fries.
I used to do that with a knife, it was painful and time consuming and generally annoying. Then a couple of years ago, i magically remembered that scissors exist
Scissors changed everything, my meat cutting is now waaaay faster, and they can easily cut meat that's fully defrosted, or part frozen. So i've been using scissors a lot.
And i've used a lot of scissors! It seems like every couple of weeks i have to go out and buy new ones, because the ones i was using have stopped cutting things properly along most of their length, only the section closest to the handles still severs anything. This is getting annoying.
I got a knife sharpener in hopes of being able to repair them, but that was a miserable failure. It might even have made things worse.
At the moment i'm looking at a particular pair of long scissors that are now worthless, and trying to figure out why they won't cut. I seem to have detected the issue; The blades are bowed out slightly
The screw holding them together is still tight, and they sit flush together around it. And also at the tip. But about the middle of the blades, there's a slight gap between the two of them. About a millimetre, but it's definitely visible from the right angle. The metal is actually bent outwards.
I suspect this is the main thing that keeps breaking them.
Now what can i do about it?
Is there any reasonable way to repair this sort of damage?
Does the fact that it's even happening just mean that my scissors are cheap junk? And if so, can anyone recommend something that will last?
Whatever the answer, i'm sick of constantly buying new ones, i need a better option. Advice please x
My cooking therefore generally involves lots of cutting up meat into small manageable chunks, often for curries and stir fries.
I used to do that with a knife, it was painful and time consuming and generally annoying. Then a couple of years ago, i magically remembered that scissors exist
Scissors changed everything, my meat cutting is now waaaay faster, and they can easily cut meat that's fully defrosted, or part frozen. So i've been using scissors a lot.
And i've used a lot of scissors! It seems like every couple of weeks i have to go out and buy new ones, because the ones i was using have stopped cutting things properly along most of their length, only the section closest to the handles still severs anything. This is getting annoying.
I got a knife sharpener in hopes of being able to repair them, but that was a miserable failure. It might even have made things worse.
At the moment i'm looking at a particular pair of long scissors that are now worthless, and trying to figure out why they won't cut. I seem to have detected the issue; The blades are bowed out slightly
The screw holding them together is still tight, and they sit flush together around it. And also at the tip. But about the middle of the blades, there's a slight gap between the two of them. About a millimetre, but it's definitely visible from the right angle. The metal is actually bent outwards.
I suspect this is the main thing that keeps breaking them.
Now what can i do about it?
Is there any reasonable way to repair this sort of damage?
Does the fact that it's even happening just mean that my scissors are cheap junk? And if so, can anyone recommend something that will last?
Whatever the answer, i'm sick of constantly buying new ones, i need a better option. Advice please x