tinfoil and scissors
Have you ever heard or read the advice that to sharpen a pair of old scissors, you should make a few cuts with them through some tin foil? I always thought that seemed like a good way to wreck some scissors.
Well, tonight, I had a cake mixed halfway before I remembered to prepare the pan and found out I'd run out of parchement paper, so I decided to cut a circle of tin foil for the bottom. I picked some crummy dollar store scissors just in case, and yup, the scissors are now exactly how I'd expect them to look after cutting through tin foil, which is the edge is all dinged up. So yeah, it's crap advice for scissors sharpening.
Well, tonight, I had a cake mixed halfway before I remembered to prepare the pan and found out I'd run out of parchement paper, so I decided to cut a circle of tin foil for the bottom. I picked some crummy dollar store scissors just in case, and yup, the scissors are now exactly how I'd expect them to look after cutting through tin foil, which is the edge is all dinged up. So yeah, it's crap advice for scissors sharpening.