What is this kitchen utensil called at your house?

[GreenPartyVoter]

At mine it's a spatula, but so is this:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear GreenPartyVoter!

Yup, both those things are spatulas!

Funny how that works, huh?

:hi:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. The lower implement is called a "scraper"

:-)

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. I have heard that one before, in the context of cleaning your tray off at school.

[Lucian]

3. Spatula.

[HopeHoops]

4. Maximus The Destroyer of Scrambled Eggs, Warrior of Skillets, and Disco Dancer

We usually shorten it to "Max".

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. I've always liked the name Max. :^)

[TheMightyFavog]

6. Reminded me of an bit from an old movie...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XbCWmY0eqY

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Haven't watched that flick in years. LOL Here's another spatula reference in

popular culture: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/751168/

[marzipanni]

7. Rubber spatula for lower one.

Spatula for upper one.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Yeah, we say that sometimes too. Mostly we call it, "Gimme the spatula. No, the other kind!"

[PassingFair]

8. self delete....beaten to the draw!

[Gormy Cuss]

11. Spatula in both cases...

but given our common roots, that's no surprise.
:D

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Ayuh! LOL (Although my parents grew up away, so I could just as easily

wound up calling it something else.)

[Arugula Latte]

13. I used to call them both "spatulas" but Martha Stewart calls the bottom one a "rubber scraper."

:P

[surrealAmerican]

14. They're both spatulas ...

... and so is the metal-bladed one, used for spreading frosting, that looks like a pallet knife (which I call an "offset spatula").

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Yep. We call the frosting knife a spatula as well. :^) Well I did back

when I was a kid, but since I have been married I haven't because I don't own one. :P

[soleft]

16. For some bizzarre reason my mother called it a spoon

And it was for spanking

[av8rdave]

17. I'd call it "leaky"

[CTyankee]

19. Wrong, everbody. It's a SLOTTED spatula. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. Picky, picky! :^P

[flying rabbit]

30. Why are they slotted?

it makes them harder to clean. Slotted spoons I can understand but burger flippers?:shrug:

[CTyankee]

31. I don't use them for burgers. The slotted ones are for picking up a piece of meat in a sauce.

Or a delicate fish that you have baked in a little marinade, like I did last night with fresh cod...delicious!

[GreenPartyVoter]

32. I use them for burgers, but not pancakes if I can help it.

[asjr]

20. My daughter has one she calls a spankula and

teases my grandchildren about spanking them with it. She never would.

[Lyric]

21. I call it a spatula, but my grandma called it a cake-turner.

[Silver Swan]

22. We always called it a pancake turner.

And the other thing was a scraper.

[rzemanfl]

24. At our age most everything in the kitchen is a whaddayacallit,

or a you know. Suprisingly, we can communicate like this.

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. LOL We tried that tonight. No dice.

[Odin2005]

26. spatula

[Demoiselle]

27. The top is a spatula. The lower one is a rubber spatula. (?!!?)

[Sheltiemama]

28. I knew what it would be before I clicked on your post.

In my house, it's known as a spatula, though I know it really isn't. "Hand me a spatula. No, not that one, the rubber spatula." Of course, in the South, we call all soft drinks Cokes, too.

[GreenPartyVoter]

29. I thought soda was pop down there?

[Wapsie B]

33. Marital aid. n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

36. .

:spray:

I don't even wanna know how that would work. :rofl:

[Wapsie B]

37. Handy substitute for a riding crop.

;-)

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

34. Ha ha

When I was a kid, that was called "I'll give you something to cry about!" Now it's a spatula :silly:

[GreenPartyVoter]

35. You are like the third person to say that. I never would have thought such an

odd-shaped thing would be used for that. Kindling, large hairbrushes, yard sticks, wooden spoons, belts, switches... That's what people I knew got thrashed with.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

38. That was a step up from Mr. Spoon!

and the wooden paddle my dad used.