Salads are one of those foods that just taste better when other people make them for you. This has always been a sad truth about salads, especially for anyone trying to save money by making lunch at home.
But if you miss out on your daily trips for quick salads while working from home during the coronavirus pandemic, your weekday lunch salads may have gotten even sadder.
The solution is a simple kitchen appliance that you can buy for less than € 15: salad scissors.
What are its advantages?
For the uninitiated, this handy accessory is almost exactly what it sounds like: a pair of scissors to use to seamlessly chop homemade salads in seconds. They are usually equipped with large, comfortable handles for a secure grip and curved or serrated blades . Some even have a small spoon to keep the spinach leaves from scattering.
The resulting masterpiece has the visual and textural appeal of a bowl prepared for you without the high price tag or a long wait. But even if you've always packed your lunch at home, salad shears can help, start to finish.
These scissors can be a great trick to speed up meal prep . You save time that you would have spent cutting each ingredient individually, and when it's time to clean, you don't have to wash cutting boards or knives.
You'll save more time with the salad scissors if you toss everything into a bowl and cut, but if you have a few extra minutes to spare and a creative side, you can spruce up chopped salads even further using salad shears strategically.
I like chopped veggies, however you can add a lot of life to your salad by changing the texture. You can cut fresh vegetables and herbs with salad scissors, but you can also cut something like mango or cucumbers differently to make the salad look prettier.
Carrots can be harder to cut with scissors – a stumbling block for some, a challenge for others. You could also end up squashing delicate tomatoes in the process. But with a little experimentation, you will find the greens that work best between the leaves.
It is true that it is not an essential element, but the inexpensive device makes it easy to make that perfect salad bite. And we have to savor the little pleasures these days.
