Ok.. so I might now have an excuse to make the purchase.
I have never had any troubles with my kitchen scissors and cutting birds. I wouldn't describe it as dangerous at all.
Thats why it says master chef under your name,
lol
What happened to me was I squeeze them too hard and the shears open up, meaning the gap between the blades spreads and all the force I am squeezing with is transferred in an actual direction vs to cut the bone... Granted I am obviously trying to cut bones larger than the utility tool I have is made to cut.
In the picture above that is a free range 38lb turkey {bought from ekonk turkey farm in CT, amazing birds they sell, I buy a lot of turkey from them, super nice people too...} when I debone a bird like that its hard on shears and squeezing hard with a normal set of shears that have loops and not open levers, has not proven to end well. Sure the 15lb chicken inside it debones easily, I can use my wifes sewing scissors to do that, but with the big birds its tougher than it looks..
I actually ordered a few sets so I will test them all out, I have 4- 40lb turkeys in the deep freeze that I got an awesome deal on after thanksgiving, so what I do is 1 at a time as I need them, I defrost one, debone, then brine and prep the meat. I cut the 2 breasts and roast them separate, then I process the rest {forming into loaf pans} for slicing..
I like the white breast meat sliced, but my kids like the dark meat loaves I make. A 40lb turkey will make A LOT of slicing turkey for sandwiches, and its all natural not salty preservative laced meats...
BUT ANYWAY, so you can see I put the shears through their paces, granted when I do my chicken stuffed turkeys they have to be perfect because its for entertaining and cooked whole, but when I do the slicing turkeys its less detrimental so I will use the band saw for the larger bones, but the shears still get a workout...
I also have pretty big hands so I may be a little harder on the shears than most cooks are. Having a plastic handled snap off and embed itself into my palm again doesn't sound super attractive to me.. I also may be using them in the wrong manner, which does not help the situation...