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Fish slice? Spatula? Or something else?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 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 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 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 10 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 10 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.