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Kitchen shears

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, kitchen shears means: Strong scissors designed for food preparation tasks.

In Turkish: mutfak makası

How it is used

Shears is plural; say a pair of kitchen shears when counting one tool.

Example sentences

  1. The cook trimmed the herbs with kitchen shears.

    The tool cuts ingredients with two opposing blades.

  2. A pair of kitchen shears was missing from the tool drawer.

    A pair of provides the singular counting expression.

Common collocations

  • a pair of kitchen shears
  • heavy kitchen shears
  • prepShort for preparation: the work of getting food ready before cooking or service, such as washing, peeling, cutting, portioning and making sauces. Also used as a verb.
  • chopTo cut food into pieces with a knife, usually quickly and without needing every piece to be exactly the same size.

More terms: Kitchen Equipment

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