If you’ve ever seen a pair of kitchen scissors, then you’ll know they've got a weird zig-zaggy bit between the handles that doesn’t seem to have a purpose at all.
The metal jaws just appear to be there for decoration, and no matter how hard you’ve probably tried to figure out what they do, you’ve clearly come up short considering you’re reading this in the hopes of finding out.
A lot of odd stuff has graced the internet over the years, like viral 'gooning sex trend', the Iron Maiden torture method, and shark threesomes - but this might be the weirdest yet.
There’s also the man in the gimp suit that resurfaces like some sort of urban legend every few months, but if we don’t talk about him, he tends to stay away a while longer.
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Anyway, back to the weird scissor thing.
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.
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 - and some have found themselves asking why those metal jaws are on 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 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.
Reddit users 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 someone else replied: "What the f**k!?!? You have changed my life!!"
Now that 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.
Topics: Weird
Britt Jones