We analysed the Amazon.co.uk subcategory Kitchen Scissors and kept only products with at least 200 reviews and 4.3 stars. Ranked by estimated monthly revenue, the ten span a tenfold price range — and the leader is a twin pack, so its £8.49 buys two pairs rather than one.
The most reviewed pair in this comparison with 37,646 ratings, and a twin pack — the £8.49 works out at about £4.25 per pair.
Check the price on AmazonThe most reviewed pair in this comparison with 37,646 ratings, and a twin pack — the £8.49 works out at about £4.25 per pair.
At £5.94 and rank 55 in its bestseller list this is the volume seller of the category, shifting over 7,000 units a month from a UK-based seller.
The brand-name middle ground at £15, and the only pair here sold explicitly for herbs as well as general kitchen work.
The same shears as rank 2 in a gift-boxed listing at £9.99 — £4 more for packaging, and the identical 14,234 reviews because both share a review pool.
Victorinox at £20, sold as household rather than food shears — a plain, sharply ground pair with no gimmick notches or covers.
The highest-rated pair here at 4.8 stars and the only one listed for right- and left-handed users, at £18.60 after a 22% price rise.
The most expensive pair in this top ten at £34.38, and the one that comes apart — the two halves separate for washing after raw meat.
The budget heavy-duty option at £7.88 with a 4.7-star average, sold in eighteen colour and pack variants.
Sold under the Sabatier Professional name but recorded against Taylors Eye Witness, the Sheffield firm behind that UK range — 22 cm of blade for £14.35.
The cheapest pair here at £3.69 and the only one sitting on the 4.3-star filter line — over 1,300 sold a month regardless.
| Product | Score | Stars | Reviews | Feature | Material | Price | Offer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01. iBayam Kitchen Shears, 2-pack, Heavy Duty Best seller iBayam · iBayam |
9.2 | 4.5 ★ | 37,646 | 2-pack · heavy duty | Stainless steel | £8.49 | Amazon › |
| 02. Magnificent Kitchen Scissors with Safety Cover MAGNIFICENT 7 STAR · MAGNIFICENT 7 STAR |
9.2 | 4.6 ★ | 14,234 | safety cover · opener | Stainless steel | £5.94 | Amazon › |
| 03. OXO Good Grips Kitchen & Herb Scissors Top rated OXO · OXO |
9.3 | 4.7 ★ | 12,900 | kitchen · herb | Stainless steel | £15.00 | Amazon › |
| 04. Magnificent Kitchen Scissors with Extra Gift MAGNIFICENT 7 STAR · MAGNIFICENT 7 STAR |
9.2 | 4.6 ★ | 14,234 | safety cover · gift | Stainless steel | £9.99 | Amazon › |
| 05. Victorinox Household Scissors, Black Victorinox · Victorinox |
8.9 | 4.6 ★ | 4,854 | extra sharp · black | Stainless steel | £20.00 | Amazon › |
| 06. ZWILLING Twin L Kitchen Scissors, 20 cm ZWILLING · ZWILLING |
8.8 | 4.8 ★ | 904 | 20 cm · left-handed | Stainless steel | £18.60 | Amazon › |
| 07. MITSUMOTO SAKARI Detachable Kitchen Shears MITSUMOTO SAKARI · MITSUMOTO SAKARI |
8.8 | 4.7 ★ | 1,620 | detachable blades | Stainless steel | £34.38 | Amazon › |
| 08. CGBE Kitchen Scissors, Heavy Duty CGBE · CGBE |
8.9 | 4.7 ★ | 2,589 | heavy duty · non-slip | Stainless steel | £7.88 | Amazon › |
| 09. Sabatier Professional Kitchen Scissors, 22 cm Taylors Eye Witness · Taylors Eye Witness |
8.7 | 4.6 ★ | 1,802 | 22 cm · soft grip | Stainless steel | £14.35 | Amazon › |
| 10. KitchenCraft Kitchen Scissors, 21 cm Lowest price KitchenCraft · KitchenCraft |
8.5 | 4.3 ★ | 5,294 | 21 cm · bottle opener | Stainless steel | £3.69 | Amazon › |
One pair here separates into two halves. That matters the moment you cut raw chicken: a fixed pivot traps fat and juice where no brush reaches, while separated halves can be scrubbed or put through the dishwasher flat.
Four of these ten build a bottle or jar opener into the handle, and one is sold partly on that. It is genuinely useful in a drawer that has no bottle opener, but the notch also adds bulk exactly where your fingers sit.
A finely serrated lower blade stops slippery skin and plastic film sliding out of the jaws; a plain ground edge, as on the Victorinox here, cuts herbs and paper more cleanly and is far easier to resharpen. Neither is better in general — they fail at different jobs.
Scissors are not symmetrical: the blade overlap is set for a right-handed squeeze, so a left-hander pushes the blades apart and the cut wanders. Only the ZWILLING pair here is explicitly listed for both hands.
The revenue leader is a two-pack, so its price covers two pairs. Compare per pair before you conclude anything about value — and consider whether a second pair for raw meat is actually the tidier answer to hygiene.
Kitchen scissors are ground for herbs, packaging, skin and cartilage. Poultry shears have shorter curved blades, a bone notch and a spring, and they are built to part joints. Trying to cut a chicken carcass with a £4 pair is how handles crack.
Cartilage, skin and small rib bones, yes — a leg joint or a spine, no. Several listings here advertise chicken, but the blades are long and straight, which gives you little leverage at the pivot. For jointing a whole bird, dedicated poultry shears with a bone notch are the right tool.
Ranks 2 and 4 are the same shears from the same brand, listed twice: once plain at £5.94 and once as a gift-boxed version at £9.99. Amazon pools reviews across the variants, so both show an identical count. We report the listings separately, as Amazon publishes them.
No. That listing is a two-pack, so it is roughly £4.25 per pair — cheap, but the KitchenCraft at £3.69 is still lower for a single pair. Pack size is the first thing to check in this category, because it is not obvious from the price alone.
The products are ordered by estimated monthly revenue per ASIN, not by star rating and not by bestseller rank. Only products with at least 200 reviews and an average of 4.3 stars were included. Revenue is price times units, which is why a £5.94 pair selling 7,000 a month sits near a £34 pair selling 162.
The score is not our own hands-on test. It is calculated transparently from public Amazon data: 75% from the average star rating and 25% from the number of reviews, weighted logarithmically. The ranking order itself comes from estimated monthly revenue per ASIN. Prices, ratings and review counts were retrieved from Amazon.co.uk on 22 July 2026 and can change at any time.
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