stays where it is meant to be.
This precise scoring makes it possible to remove just the upper portion of the shell like a neat cap, leaving the rest of the quail egg intact. By avoiding the crush and crumble that comes from trying to crack such a small, fragile egg with standard methods, the scissors prevent the shell from breaking into messy fragments. What might look at first like an odd or even useless gadget is therefore revealed as a highly specialized utensil, built for one clear purpose: opening