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Fish slice? Spatula? Or something else?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Ah, yes, the BrandCo Drawer Jammer 9000.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Those are longer

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Looks like a sort of fish slice to me.

Spatulas are either long thin metal things or short licky rubber things.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm in the US, and most people I know call it a spatula but I have heard some people just call it a "flipper"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

In my home a spatula was always a tool with a flat rubber end, so this thing is a flipper. What do you call the rubber headed thing that you scrape bowls out with?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Do you mean something like this?

I just call them rubber spatulas, despite the fact that the one I have is made of silicone lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I'm my home, we have a variety of spatulas. Rubber spatula - both "no the big one" and "no the little one"; metal spatulas include: "my favorite"/"the sharp one", "the big shitty one", and "the curvy one"; and irregulars such as "the big offset", "that stupid orange one", and "the icing spatt".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

A rubber spatula or "the good one, I need to get all the sauce out of this pan".

Actually we speak French and English 50/50 because Montreal, and in French it actually has a name "Une Maryse", which is defined as: "a rubber spatula".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Turner seems widely used in product listings. I've always said spatula, but there's a bit of ambiguity between this type of spatula and a rubber spatula of the type used to scrape sides of mixing bowls and such.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've never heard anyone call it a turner, but again that may have more to do with where I live. As a kid the item in OPs picture was the only thing we called a spatula. I didn't even see a rubber scraper style spatula until I was in high school I think lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I honestly don't think I've heard turner IRL either. Just happened to notice it a lot when I was shopping for one on Amazon. Rubber spatula gets a lot of use if you bake, though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Meat Raquet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

In the UK? That's a weapon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Spatula or turner

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

That's Mohammed and you're very brave to post his picture!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That’s a fucking spatula

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

anything can be a spatula if you’re brave enough

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

When we're feeling whimsical, we call it Fionn mac Cumhail, because in our minds fins and flippers are the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I slam with the back of my spatula!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

That is a flip turner.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Non stick pan destroyer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Around here it's flipper, spatula, or pancake turner

I've never heard anyone say fish slice before this thread

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

That there's a spatchalur, or more commonly a "spatch" for short.

If you're around people who are all "proper", it's a spatula.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This would be called a turner, or spatula(incorrect).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Freezer defrosting tool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Slotted spatula

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Bottle opener

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Worst. Spoon. Ever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Closed fork

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago