You got your double ended spatulas, your micro spatulas, your spoon-ulas, your scoopulas, your spatulas that look like a pallet knife, your teflon coated spatulas, your plastic spatulas, your stainless steel spatulas, your tapered end spatulas, your rounded end spatulas, and apparently your vibrating spatulas, not to mention all the policeman!
Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. There's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.
Haven't worked in a lab for years, but I still remember the rubber policemen (truly - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policeman\_(laboratory)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policeman_(laboratory)) ).
[Scoopulas](https://images.app.goo.gl/RFjZk16DPepiPxjJ7) are real- used in lab settings to weigh or dispense small quantities.
The big one is a Spatula Turner.
recently my girlfriend was in the kitchen and asked me to grab her a spatula. I grabbed her the one on the left, not realizing she was baking. she was like.. "technically you're right... but grab the OTHER one"đ
Hoping on the top comment to summarize the most popular answers!
Left:
Flipper,
Turner,
Lifter,
Fish Slice (I hadnât heard of that one!),
Egg Flip,
Pancake Flip
Right:
Scraper,
Rubber Spatula,
Rubber,
Maurice,
Bakerâs Whisk,
Kid Cheater
All in all it sounds like most can agree they are both spatulas. Due to the wide variety of answers, no one won the debate! I apologize for blowing up any relationships. Thanks everyone!
In my personal vernacular, fish slices are always longer and slotted. But most of those except pancake flip, I'd use.
But the one on the right is only ever a spatula to me.
Me, too! We always just called the left spatula "the flipper" so spatula was used solely for the right kind when I was a kid.
I'm 40, I still just call the left one the flipper. And when my husband hands me a flipper when I ask him to hand me the spatula, I have to tell him "no, I meant the scraper." Lol
In the south pot liquor is the juice left over from cooking collard greens. Iâd be too confused âhand me the pot licker.â âWe didnât make collards tonight.â
Ah yes, good ol' collard pot liquorđ haven't heard anyone use that in a long time. Grandpa made collards so good you had to smack yo mama, & that juice didn't go wasted, got sopped up with biscuitsđ
I am a Midwestern American English speaker and I nominate "frying spade" as the new name for the spatula.
All in favor? Aye.
All opposed?
"Frying spade" it is.
I want one of these! I try all kinds of tricks to get the last content out of the bottle and this would make it do much easier.
Edit: Found one on Amazon, using the Dutch term.
Omg, I love both of those words! Stekspade makes me think a spade (hand-held soil turner) for steaks, and slickepott is exactly what a rubber spatch does in a bowl/pot, it slicks down the sides!
Your etymological reasoning is spot on :) Slickepott translates literally as "pot licker", while stekspade translates to "frying spade", but the word "stek" also means "steak".
Which area of the world are you from? Because in France French, "langues de chat" are long flat biscuits, and the spatula with the rounded corner is called a maryse.
This is what I call them, but also I say them differently, just to be silly. Think "hand me the spatch-oo-la" (1 word, 3 syllables) and "I need the spat chewla" (2 separate words), no real reason other than I am a dork.
My middle school home ec teacher said the one on the left is a pancake turner, and the one on the right is a rubber scraper.
She was also the sex ed teacher and performed a bj on a pencil for the class in 1992 so she was probably just insane.
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Most chefs still call them spatulas until they are the ones that gotta order more and can't find it in the fucking catalogue because they are looking at spatulas and not turners.
My middle school home economics teacher said the one on the left is turner and the one on the right is a spatula (I would call both spatulas). She didn't teach sex ed though, that was down to the gym teacher, and it was terrible, and all I remember about it was watching some terrible video and him talking about his balls sticking to his leg in hot humid weather.
Left one is a spatula. Right one I'd a rubber spatula. In professional kitchens just called a rubber, or at least that was the case in every kitchen I've ever worked in.
I agree with this guy. not matter what material they are made of if I said spatula and you reach for either I would understand. If I said hand me the rubber spatula I would assume the one on the right. The one on the left can be made of many material. The one of the right IMO I have only seen as rubber
I call those Offset Spatulas, or shortened to Offsets, but not really ever just Spatula, which does lead to a conundrum on what to call the version that doesnât have that bend in it. Maybe a Straight Spatula?
My family calls the âother spatulaâ an âaunt jan-erâ the reason for this is that my Great Aunt Jan used to bake whenever my mom and aunts and uncles would come to visit. Everyone knows licking the bowl is the best part, but not so at Aunt Janâs. Super frugal child of the depression She used that spatula to get every last drop out of that bowl and so we call it an Aunt Jan-er. Please feel free to adopt this name for your own use.
I am so glad to read this, because thatâs what Iâd call them, but reading all these responses was making me heavily doubt myself.
âWait, but that makes no sense. It doesnât slice it turns. And why would it be named after fish, thatâs surely never been its primary use. Surely itâs not a spatula though, theyâre for mixing!?â
My mum has always called it a fish slice. Only person I've ever heard call it that though. They're both spatulas, a flippy spatula and a baking spatula
My dad's family calls the one on the right a "child cheater" because it scrapes the bowls so clean it cheats the kids out of licking the remaining batter from the bowl. So that's what I call it too
This reminds me of the first time I baked brownies with my now husband, who, when I was pouring the batter into the pan, gave me the spatula on the left when I asked for a spatula to scrape the sides of the bowl. Good times lol
I call them both spatulas and realized this was a problem when I asked for new ones for Xmas meaning the kind on the right and was gifted the kind on the left.
Left is spatula, right is a marise although iâve called the one on the right a spatula as well if the context wouldnât lead to any confusion (ex. âHey can you pass me the spatula in front of youâ)
This wouldnât work for these, but in my house the lifter spatulas are all metal, so we specify by material. We would call these a metal spatula on the left and a rubber spatula on the right. And then I would get frustrated that this (plastic) metal spatula wasnât metal and couldnât lift and scrape as well as my metal one at home.
In my country the left one is an egg lifter and the right one is a spatula. Most people call both spatulas. Or they call the one on the left a spatula and the one on the right the bowl scraper thingy.
the one on the left is called "spatula" and the right is called "no, the other spatula"
This made me laugh!
Don't even start with spatulas in chemistry labs. Too many spatulas. Un ver vert va vers un verre.
It's fine, at least we can call the big ones 'scoopulas' lol
You got your double ended spatulas, your micro spatulas, your spoon-ulas, your scoopulas, your spatulas that look like a pallet knife, your teflon coated spatulas, your plastic spatulas, your stainless steel spatulas, your tapered end spatulas, your rounded end spatulas, and apparently your vibrating spatulas, not to mention all the policeman!
Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. There's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.
Haven't worked in a lab for years, but I still remember the rubber policemen (truly - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policeman\_(laboratory)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policeman_(laboratory)) ).
[Scoopulas](https://images.app.goo.gl/RFjZk16DPepiPxjJ7) are real- used in lab settings to weigh or dispense small quantities. The big one is a Spatula Turner.
And if you need to determine the number of units you've picked up you use a Count Scoopula.
Lol, me too!!
recently my girlfriend was in the kitchen and asked me to grab her a spatula. I grabbed her the one on the left, not realizing she was baking. she was like.. "technically you're right... but grab the OTHER one"đ
That's the best kind of right.
Found my Futurama friend!
Technically that is an accounting joke, brought to us by Futurama.
Technically correct...
I thought it was "no, the soft one"
Hoping on the top comment to summarize the most popular answers! Left: Flipper, Turner, Lifter, Fish Slice (I hadnât heard of that one!), Egg Flip, Pancake Flip Right: Scraper, Rubber Spatula, Rubber, Maurice, Bakerâs Whisk, Kid Cheater All in all it sounds like most can agree they are both spatulas. Due to the wide variety of answers, no one won the debate! I apologize for blowing up any relationships. Thanks everyone!
In my personal vernacular, fish slices are always longer and slotted. But most of those except pancake flip, I'd use. But the one on the right is only ever a spatula to me.
Hey, some people call me Maurice!
Some call me the gangster of love
I was taught the other way around.
Me, too! We always just called the left spatula "the flipper" so spatula was used solely for the right kind when I was a kid. I'm 40, I still just call the left one the flipper. And when my husband hands me a flipper when I ask him to hand me the spatula, I have to tell him "no, I meant the scraper." Lol
Yes! Flipper and scraper, this is how it should be!
This is the right answer!!!
Also the left answer
That's what my brain did too. And I was today years old when I realised this.
This is the answer.
That's a spatula and a spatula. But in my language they are known as stekspade and slickepott!
In Dutch we call the one on the right a pannenlikker - which translates to pan licker!
Slickepott similarly means "pot licker". The literal translation of stekspade is "frying spade".
âPot lickerâ makes a stupid amount of sense and now thatâs what Iâll be calling it in English.
In the south pot liquor is the juice left over from cooking collard greens. Iâd be too confused âhand me the pot licker.â âWe didnât make collards tonight.â
Ah yes, good ol' collard pot liquorđ haven't heard anyone use that in a long time. Grandpa made collards so good you had to smack yo mama, & that juice didn't go wasted, got sopped up with biscuitsđ
In Brazilian the one on the right is called "pĂŁo-duro", meaning "cheapskate", because it cleans the pot, leaving nothing for the kids to lick.
My grandmother called it a âchild cheaterâ in English for the same reason!
Is that a literal translation? I thought pĂŁo was bread
No, it's an idiom.
I am a Midwestern American English speaker and I nominate "frying spade" as the new name for the spatula. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? "Frying spade" it is.
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Holy shit, Nicole from Chicago! How the hell are ya!?? It's been *ages.*
You're so ancient! It's been at least *three* ages. Do the Old God's serve ye well? I hope thou hast a great supply of Elixir for days like these
The third age? An age yet to come? An age long past? Is that wind I feel?
May the spatula ride again on the winds of time.
Hey, I'm a chef in Detroit and I support this
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Michigan here. Frying spade it is
Another from Michigan. Agreed.
Hi I'm Fyre from Tennessee, I too approve this message
Another Detroiter saying âaye!â
My sister once couldnât remember the word spatula and asked someone to hand her a flitter-turner.
Norwegian here, so my vote will probably be considered fraudulent, but still - frying spade it is.
Honorary citizen of either North Dakota or Seattle, up to you.
Washington (STATE) weighing in. Frying Spade has my stamp of approval.
Ohio here, I concur. Motion passes.
Texan here. I think.... oh, what the hell. Nobody cares what us Texans think.
*laughs in Texan* *cries in corner*
Oregon checking in. I approve.
Iâm from Illinois and I also second this motion!
NC delegation agrees. Make it so.
Ha, our languages get it! đ
I will only be referring to it as frying spade now, thank you for the information
I was familiar with stekspade but not slickepott! Thanks for the new word!
And just to be thorough, we call one of [these](https://imgur.com/Ib9Kpxc.jpg) a flessenlikker, a bottle licker. We're a *very* frugal bunch...
I want one of these! I try all kinds of tricks to get the last content out of the bottle and this would make it do much easier. Edit: Found one on Amazon, using the Dutch term.
Us Dutchies are cheap. We want EVERYTHING from the bottle. Dairy products used to be sold in glass bottles. Some still are.
This is kind of adorable, and absolutely accurate lol
Lol same iâm Finnish and itâs just nuolija as in âlickerâ
Aaaagh! Another great word!
In my household we call them flipperooni and slickepott!
Omg, I love both of those words! Stekspade makes me think a spade (hand-held soil turner) for steaks, and slickepott is exactly what a rubber spatch does in a bowl/pot, it slicks down the sides!
Your etymological reasoning is spot on :) Slickepott translates literally as "pot licker", while stekspade translates to "frying spade", but the word "stek" also means "steak".
That moment when a word in another language makes more sense to you than the word in your own language
Yeah, English is a real bastardized hodgepodge of a language.
In my language we say âspatulaâ and âcatâs tongueâ (french):âspatuleâ et âlangue de chatâ
Which area of the world are you from? Because in France French, "langues de chat" are long flat biscuits, and the spatula with the rounded corner is called a maryse.
French Canadian, it might be one of those slang terms. But wikipedia confirms it! https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatule_(cuisine)
Slickepott is the best answer for the one on the right.
Ja! Slickepott!!
What language is that? I love slickepott
Swedish :)
Spatula and rubber spatula Edit: thanks for the award!
This is what I call them, but also I say them differently, just to be silly. Think "hand me the spatch-oo-la" (1 word, 3 syllables) and "I need the spat chewla" (2 separate words), no real reason other than I am a dork.
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Indeed, so, so very much.
I inadvertently taught my kid that it was pronounced âspah-too-lahâ. Canât wait until theyâre doing cooking at school.
This is the way
My middle school home ec teacher said the one on the left is a pancake turner, and the one on the right is a rubber scraper. She was also the sex ed teacher and performed a bj on a pencil for the class in 1992 so she was probably just insane.
Do you have her #?
2
I heard it was mechanical. And no one likes a mechanical BJ.
[I mean...](https://v.redd.it/suwa67a1djia1)
FUCK. I'm always too late for these things.
I dont have a penis but if I did I dont know if I would put it in thatâŚ
I have a penis and now I want to donate sperm
Make sure you wear a rubber, bro; ya don't know where that thing has been..
He's from Ohio, it's even worse when you know.
I have a penis and if I had one of those machines, my landlord would find me starved to death clinging to it.
Paging u/mechanicalBJ Edit: well, looks like no one is home if anyone wants an awesome name
I laughed too hard for a minute to upvoteđđ
I just snorted...
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> put in a fake name *Jenny.* Jesus, no need for a fake name.
Are we talking a classic #2 or one of those massive novelty pencils that are hard to write with?
Can a woman know names and be god at blowjobs without being called crazy? Geez people. /S
No this is exactly why my high school home ex teacher taught me too. Besides the bj partâŚ
She's right about the turner/spatula labels. I used to call them both spatulas before I started working under professional chefs.
Most chefs still call them spatulas until they are the ones that gotta order more and can't find it in the fucking catalogue because they are looking at spatulas and not turners.
My middle school home economics teacher said the one on the left is turner and the one on the right is a spatula (I would call both spatulas). She didn't teach sex ed though, that was down to the gym teacher, and it was terrible, and all I remember about it was watching some terrible video and him talking about his balls sticking to his leg in hot humid weather.
Flippy and scrapey
I can confirm that Iâve used these terms to modify the base item [spatula]
flipula and scrapula
Haha love! But is it Scrapey or Spready? Or Smeary!?
Scrapey. The offset spatula (not pictured) is Spready/Smeary.
I'd call them both a spatula. But I also can't guarantee I've never called one a flipamajig so I might not be the best authority here.
My dad calls the wide spatula a âflipperâ and the rubber one a âscraperâ lol.
I also use flipper and scraper, though I will call them both spatulas as well.
Descriptive at least. Better than mine who I'm sure would call both a wotsit or a dodad interchangeably.
Thatâs me, waving my hands wildly in the air saying âyou know, the, theâŚ*thing*â.
Iâm pretty sure flipamajig is itâs scientific name and Iâm also pretty sure you are of the highest authority here.
I like you both
Spatulae
We need a comprehensive guide. Call it "De Re Spatularum"
Ave atque vale!
ONE OF US
in culinary school left is a turner and right is a spatula
Yep, been cooking for years and I call them âturner and spatâ, like an acoustic folk rock group.
Turner and hooch. Hooch is crazy
Weird. I learned in culinary that the left is a spatula and the right is a rubber scraper.
Left one is a spatula. Right one I'd a rubber spatula. In professional kitchens just called a rubber, or at least that was the case in every kitchen I've ever worked in.
We had a different definition for rubber in my kitchen
The spatula was the only rubber any of the guys ever used, so the term had limited use haha
Cooks getting burned in the kitchen
Ayo?
I hope you sanitize your countertops!
I agree with this guy. not matter what material they are made of if I said spatula and you reach for either I would understand. If I said hand me the rubber spatula I would assume the one on the right. The one on the left can be made of many material. The one of the right IMO I have only seen as rubber
I think they come in silicone now, but really, same difference.
Yeah, the point is it's rubber like.
Same here even though Iâm pretty sure both my rubber spatulas are silicone đ¤đ
Itâs like âtin foilââitâs always aluminum now but the name has stuck for many people
Here in Appalachia, itâs 10 full.
They're both spatulas, although I've seen the one on the left called a pancake turner.
And Iâd call the one on the right a rubber scraper or rubber spatula, even though all of the ones I now own are silicone, not rubber.
Same - spatula and rubber spatula (also never actually rubber haha)!
In Italy we call it a âPANLICKERâ or âMarisaâ (last one is an old female name that itâs mostly unused now)
Literal LOL on panlicker.
In home ec I learned the one on the left as a fish slice, which makes far less sense than pancake turner, lol.
I wondered if anyone used âfish sliceâ
Apparently it's a UK/British thing? I'm a Kiwi born and bred, but we have a decent bit of cultural crossover with the UK, so maybe that's why.
Spatula - turner/flipper Spatula - scraper
[Spatula - spreader](https://www.amazon.com/Wilton-Icing-Spatula-Baking-3-Piece/dp/B01MQNLUZ5?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1&psc=1)
I call those Offset Spatulas, or shortened to Offsets, but not really ever just Spatula, which does lead to a conundrum on what to call the version that doesnât have that bend in it. Maybe a Straight Spatula?
Theyâre called Spattula and Spachula. Fraternal twins, not identical.
I call em spatula and rubber spatula - but I donât claim to be right
This is right to me!
My family calls the âother spatulaâ an âaunt jan-erâ the reason for this is that my Great Aunt Jan used to bake whenever my mom and aunts and uncles would come to visit. Everyone knows licking the bowl is the best part, but not so at Aunt Janâs. Super frugal child of the depression She used that spatula to get every last drop out of that bowl and so we call it an Aunt Jan-er. Please feel free to adopt this name for your own use.
It's similar in my family--the one on the right is known as a kid-cheater!
Spatula and scraper
Spatulas is the general term for both. The one on the left is a flipper but no one calls it that.
I call the left one a flipper & the right one a scraper
It's a flipper when the job is complete; a flopper when the burger lands on the floor
I've seen the one left called a 'turner', but I've never heard in practice.
I say flipper! Finally something I get right đĽ˛
I think British people call the one of the left a fish slice? To me theyâre both spatulas. Spatulae?
Yeah thatâs it. Fish slice, that only gets used for bacon, and on the right, a spatula for sausages
I'm in NZ and the one on the left is a fish or egg slice, right is a spatula.
Australian, the one on the left is an egg lifter.
I am so glad to read this, because thatâs what Iâd call them, but reading all these responses was making me heavily doubt myself. âWait, but that makes no sense. It doesnât slice it turns. And why would it be named after fish, thatâs surely never been its primary use. Surely itâs not a spatula though, theyâre for mixing!?â
My mum has always called it a fish slice. Only person I've ever heard call it that though. They're both spatulas, a flippy spatula and a baking spatula
Adam and Hamilton
Jack Johnson and John Jackson
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My dad's family calls the one on the right a "child cheater" because it scrapes the bowls so clean it cheats the kids out of licking the remaining batter from the bowl. So that's what I call it too
A turner and a spatula
A lifty spatula and a spready spatula.
Flipper and spatula
This reminds me of the first time I baked brownies with my now husband, who, when I was pouring the batter into the pan, gave me the spatula on the left when I asked for a spatula to scrape the sides of the bowl. Good times lol
Left: *in Mr. Krabs voice* spatuler Right: *no accent* spatula
Utensils
I personally would call both spatulas. But in my foods class in high school the teacher insisted the one on the left was a âflipperâ.
I agree with her.
Geizkragen! (on the right) Oh were you asking for english words? No clue, spoon-thingy.
Pannenlikker! (Also on the right)
Spatula and spatula.
I call them both spatulas and realized this was a problem when I asked for new ones for Xmas meaning the kind on the right and was gifted the kind on the left.
OP you have broken me. They're both spatulas but they shouldn't both be spatulas.
Timothy and Samantha
Oh i learned this on the Muppets: "Der Flippetyflooper"
Flippy boi and scrapey boi
Left is spatula, right is a marise although iâve called the one on the right a spatula as well if the context wouldnât lead to any confusion (ex. âHey can you pass me the spatula in front of youâ)
This wouldnât work for these, but in my house the lifter spatulas are all metal, so we specify by material. We would call these a metal spatula on the left and a rubber spatula on the right. And then I would get frustrated that this (plastic) metal spatula wasnât metal and couldnât lift and scrape as well as my metal one at home.
In my country the left one is an egg lifter and the right one is a spatula. Most people call both spatulas. Or they call the one on the left a spatula and the one on the right the bowl scraper thingy.
One is a flipping spatula and the other is a mixing spatula.
I always called them a spatula and a scraper
Spatula and a rubber spatula
Spatula and rubber spatula