We analysed the Amazon.co.uk subcategory Poultry Shears and kept only products with at least 200 reviews and 4.3 stars. Ranked by estimated monthly revenue, one pair takes roughly 89% of the money: the four listings at the bottom recorded no sales at all, and two entries are not poultry shears but kitchen and fish scissors.
The pair that carries this whole subcategory: £21.99, 360 units a month and roughly 89% of the revenue in the top ten.
Check the price on AmazonThe pair that carries this whole subcategory: £21.99, 360 units a month and roughly 89% of the revenue in the top ten.
The longest pair here at 25 cm and £35.49 after a 22% price drop — Fiskars build, but only fourteen units a month.
The most expensive pair in this comparison at £73.56, sold from Italy and moving two units a month even after a 54% price cut.
Not poultry shears but plain 22 cm kitchen scissors, filed here by Amazon — useful context, wrong tool if you are jointing a bird.
The only pair here listed with curved blades and for both hands, at £25.73 — the shape that follows a carcass rather than cutting straight across it.
A fish shear rather than a poultry one at £25.03 — shorter, finer blades meant for fins and bellies, not for parting a leg joint.
All-Clad at £55.07 with 718 reviews behind it, but no recorded sales in the observed period and a bestseller rank beyond one million.
The cheapest pair here at £14.90 and the highest-rated at 4.8 stars, yet with no sales recorded — a listing that reads well and simply is not selling.
A polished German classic at £55.73 with a 7 cm blade and a spring mechanism — 1,599 reviews, no sales in this period.
The most reviewed pair in this comparison with 6,844 ratings, and the clearest example of the problem here: at £28.72 from a US seller it recorded no sales at all.
| Product | Score | Stars | Reviews | Feature | Material | Price | Offer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01. SimCoker Poultry Shears, Spring Loaded Best seller SimCoker · SimCoker |
9.2 | 4.7 ★ | 2,010 | spring · safety lock | Stainless steel | £21.99 | Amazon › |
| 02. Fiskars Poultry Shears, 25 cm Top rated Fiskars · Fiskars |
9.2 | 4.7 ★ | 2,074 | 25 cm · steel | Steel and synthetic | £35.49 | Amazon › |
| 03. WMF Poultry Shears, 24 cm Stainless WMF · WMF |
8.7 | 4.5 ★ | 1,048 | 24 cm · stainless | Stainless steel | £73.56 | Amazon › |
| 04. Fiskars Kitchen Scissors, 22 cm Fiskars · Fiskars |
8.5 | 4.6 ★ | 270 | 22 cm · kitchen | Steel and synthetic | £22.13 | Amazon › |
| 05. Fiskars Poultry Shears, Curved Blades 23 cm Fiskars · Fiskars |
8.9 | 4.6 ★ | 1,105 | 23 cm · curved | Steel | £25.73 | Amazon › |
| 06. Fiskars Fish Shears with Softouch Handles Fiskars · Fiskars |
8.6 | 4.6 ★ | 454 | fish shear · Softouch | Steel | £25.03 | Amazon › |
| 07. All-Clad Kitchen Shears, Stainless Steel All-Clad · All-Clad |
8.8 | 4.6 ★ | 718 | stainless · shears | Stainless steel | £55.07 | Amazon › |
| 08. VOSSOT Poultry Scissors with Handle Lock Lowest price VOSSOT · VOSSOT |
8.8 | 4.8 ★ | 271 | handle lock · spring | Stainless steel | £14.90 | Amazon › |
| 09. Westmark Poultry Shears, Spring Mechanism Westmark · Westmark |
9.0 | 4.6 ★ | 1,599 | spring · 7 cm blade | Stainless steel | £55.73 | Amazon › |
| 10. OXO Good Grips Poultry Shears Top rated OXO · OXO |
9.2 | 4.5 ★ | 6,844 | poultry · Good Grips | Stainless steel | £28.72 | Amazon › |
The serrated cut-out near the pivot is what separates poultry shears from any other scissors. It grips a wing or thigh bone so the joint cannot slide out as you close the handles, and it is the first thing to look for in the product photo.
Straight blades cut across a carcass; curved ones follow it, which is what you want when you are taking a spine out or working around a ribcage. Only one pair in this top ten is explicitly listed with curved blades.
A spring pushes the handles back open after every cut. Over one chicken it is a convenience, over a tray of thighs it is the difference between a job and a workout. Three of these ten state a spring or spring-loaded mechanism.
Sprung shears want to sit open, which is a problem in a drawer. A lock closes them for storage and keeps the point away from your fingers. Two listings here name a safety or handle lock outright.
Poultry shears part joints, cut through ribs and take out a spine. They are not designed for a leg bone or a beef bone, and the reviews that complain about bent blades are almost always about that. If you need to go through dense bone, that is a cleaver job.
The pairs here run from 22 to 25 cm overall, with one blade as short as 7 cm. Short blades close to a long handle give you the most force at the pivot, which is exactly where poultry shears do their work — long blades are a kitchen-scissors trait.
Because this is a tiny subcategory — 284 products were screened for kitchen scissors, but only 13 poultry shears clear the review and rating filter at all. Four of the ten here recorded no sales in the observed period, all of them listings shipped by third-party merchants with bestseller ranks beyond one million. They are stocked, but barely moving.
Poultry shears have shorter, often curved blades, a serrated bone notch at the pivot and usually a spring. Kitchen scissors are longer, straighter and ground for herbs, packaging and skin. Two entries in this very ranking are actually kitchen and fish scissors, which shows how loosely the categories are used.
Through poultry bone, yes — ribs, wing and thigh joints, and a chicken spine with a firm squeeze. Beef and pork bones will damage them. Every listing here that mentions bone means poultry bone, and the notch at the pivot is the part doing that work.
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. In a subcategory this thin the top two positions are meaningful and the tail is not: once revenue reaches zero, the order says nothing about quality.
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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