“Unveiling the Hidden Secret: What the Mysterious Metal Part on Your Scissors Really Does Will Leave You Shocked!”

If you’ve got a big pair of kitchen scissors then they’ve probably got a weird toothy bit between the handles which doesn’t quite come close enough for cutting stuff.

You can snip-snip-snip all day long with the normal scissor parts of the scissors but what’s the point of those weird metal jaws in between?

You can’t really cut things with them since the toothy blades don’t meet in the middle and the whole point of scissors is to cut things.

Fortunately, you can learn pretty much anything by going on the internet and seeing whether anyone else has asked about it before you.

It’s the new way knowledge is passed down through the generations, not through giving advice in person but by digging through old forums to find that one person who posted the right answer.

See those toothy jaws in your scissors, what do you use them for? (Getty Stock Photo)

It’s also how a lot of IT problems get resolved, if turning it off and on again doesn’t work then Googling your problem and hoping that some bloke from 2011 posted the answer online can often do the trick.

Anyhow, back to those metal jaws they put on some pairs of scissors.

The specific kitchen scissors are officially known as ‘kitchen shears’, and those teeth they have are really useful for plenty of culinary tasks.

Chief among them is gripping and potentially cracking something between those teeth depending on the application of force, it’s basically a set of cooking pliers that lets you better apply your strength to a task.

Your pair of scissors comes complete with a nutcracker, and as if that wasn’t good enough you can use the handy implement to grab bones and crunch them down if you have to.

You can crack nuts, crunch bones and also apparently shear the top off boiled eggs with that bit of your scissors. (Getty Stock Photo)

You can also use the teeth to open up bottles and jars, just sink the teeth into the lid and start twisting, you’ll have an easier time opening things up than the other methods of running it under the hot tap or getting a towel round it for a better grip.

Plenty of other folks online shared their own useful uses for the gizmo, saying you can ‘run a bone through it to strip meat off too’ and are ‘great for cracking lobster claws’.

One person even said they were ‘pretty good for removing the tops off of boiled eggs’, to which another replied: “What the f**k!?!? You have changed my life!!”

Now you possess the knowledge that has demonstrably changed a person’s life, you can go forth and spread this newfound learning among your nearest and dearest.

You might want to have a few practice goes at snipping the top off a boiled egg though, it’d be a shame to shatter the entire eggshell.