What Is That Weird Toothed Part on Kitchen Scissors For? (And 4 Brilliant Hacks You’ve Been Missing)

Place the nut securely in the notch between the teeth. Gently squeeze the handles together. The serrated edges will grip the smooth shell and crack it open perfectly, without shattering the nut inside into useless crumbs like a hammer might.

Trick #3: Crack Crab Legs and Lobster Claws

Seafood nights are a wonderful treat, but cracking slippery, hard shells

can be a messy chore. The serrated notch on your shears is essentially a built-in seafood cracker.

How to do it: Place a crab leg joint or a lobster claw into

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