Heavy Duty Kitchen Shears - 9.25" Ultra Sharp Stainless Steel Scissors for Cutting Poultry, Fish, Meat, Herbs - Dishwasher Safe with Comfortable Black Handle - Perfect for Cooking, Food Prep and Butchering

These scissors are, seriously, the best thing I've ever purchased that I never knew I needed. They are long and light weight and sturdy. They're sharp and they're a snap to take apart to clean. All of these features rank them far above any pair of kitchen shears that I've ever owned.I have plenty of experience in the kitchen but I'm in my 70s now with terribly degraded vision and some arthritis in the base of my right thumb. Needless to say, the scope of my cooking skills has greatly diminished over the last few years. My lack of depth perception and extreme white light sensitivity has made efficient use of kitchen knives all but impossible for me.I bought these shears hoping they would provide a safer and more manageable way for me to do some of the tasks that I was used to doing with knives. The first thing I did with them was spatchcock a 5 1/2 lb chicken. I've never done that before even when my vision was perfect. I roasted it my medium/large toaster oven, removed the meat I wanted to use and put every bit of the rest into my crockpot. Heaven! In truth, it turned out to be the most tender meat and the best tasting broth I have ever made and I give a huge part of the credit to these wonderful scissors.Using these provided me with new ways to use old skills. Skills that have been degrading right along with my vision. They allowed me to cut meat and bone with a top to bottom balance using a tactile sense that a single bladed knife can't provide; they allowed me to use a compact oven to roast something larger than it would otherwise accommodate; they allowed me to easily trim chicken pieces to fit neatly into my crockpot. And, best of all they returned to me some of the confidence in my cooking that my fast failing sight has been rapidly striping away. I can't begin to express how wonderful that feels.I have every faith that I will be finding more an more ways to apply my new tool to tasks that my vision has been making so frustrating. I highly recommend these shears for everyone who cooks; for those who want to learn new cooking skills; and most of all for those who would like to revive old ones.