For starters, a sturdy pair of kitchen scissors is useful for opening up packages of food or cutting parchment paper. You can also use them in cooking, like clipping the wings off a chicken or removing its backbone.
Not only can you use it to rinse fruit, but also you can sift flour with it for baking fluffy birthday cakes. Use it to dust confectioners’ sugar over pancakes. Drain pasta. And if you want to get fancy, use it to catch lumps in puddings, custards, purees and Thanksgiving gravy.
Make sure you buy a set of dry measuring cups and a wet measuring cup. They’re different volumes, people.
