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The shears arrived and I thought Hmm are these fake? Because the slightly shabby box doesn’t say Dragon Riot just ‘Monster’
So I googled it and it seems they’re legit, there are plenty of reviews and even youtube has bit’s n pieces on them.
They dishwashered well with no marking or suspicious rust spots which I always think is a good way to spot fakes.
I asked Mr SSOAP to pick up a chicken when he was in the supermarket ready to test them out. I didn’t have high hope as I have tendonitis in my thumbs and scissors especially sprung loaded ones are my hands nemesis.
How wrong I was, the spring is gentle and helpful.
They are simply fantastic.
Easy to disassemble and reassemble for washing -
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Took approximately 5 seconds to cut down each side of the spine. I was amazed, even though scissors or shears for spatchcocking a chicken is something I’m not familiar with doing, the back bone was out clean in well under a minute (probably about 30 seconds) and that includes the faffing about checking where I was cutting.
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I have known for a while that cutting this piece of cartilage (see green arrow) makes the chicken fall open (so there’s no need to try crush it to get the breast bone to give) but a knife just isn’t good at cutting this.
These snipped though it like it wasn’t there. This meant no uneven break so no lopsided spatchcock.
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One lovely plump evenly spatchcocked chicken.
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Thing is it was so fast to do I wasn’t really satisfied, I wanted more! So off with the legs and wings to see how it coped with joints and thicker more solid bone.
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Exceptionally well was the answer. It was so easy and so fast I was quite taken aback, all the cuts were very clean with no bone splintering.
To be honest it was so quick I wanted to cut still more but as I’ve just been watching Dexter I decided to leave it there
It’s in the fridge brining for tomorrow’s Sunday Lunch.
I’ve left the crown whole as I want to see how well they’ll cut cooked bone (how clean the cut is etc) so I’ll split that tomorrow.
On their first outing alone I really like them.
I often would like to cook chicken breast on the bone but even if you can get a crown they tend to be the same price as a whole chicken! And the individual breast on the bone seems to have disappeared from the shelves.
I think this might up my Sunday dinner game because a couple of crowns can be cooked far more gently than a whole chicken.
I’ll also have the legs left for another dish. Bargain.
I’m already absolutely set on getting some for Spain!
Obviously I have no idea how well they’ll do over time but they feel promising.
OK thanks for the in-depth review - I’m sold! I will go on Amazon when I get home and add the Monsters to cart! My existing ones can hang around and be used for cutting open crisp packets or juice cartons or something.
