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Spatulas and Turners, according to restaurant professionals

Only claims about spatulas and turners made by people we have grounds to call restaurant professionals. The unrestricted spatulas and turners evidence is on the spatulas and turners page.

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5 people on record as restaurant professionals make 24 quoted claims about spatulas and turners across 6 sources. Membership is recorded with its own evidence — for a person by the trait they are on record holding, for a community by the source it was said in — and authority is scoped to spatulas and turners rather than to fame.

Which spatulas and turners do restaurant professionals recommend?

Endorsements and objections about spatulas and turners from restaurant professionals, together, strongest evidence first.

Wusthof fish spatula

1 voice 3 claims no objections from restaurant professionals

13:05 supports Stephen La Rosa earns commission on this

Highly, highly, highly recommended.

recommendation Uses it professionally What's In My Knife Roll! My Top Tools for Michelin Kitchens, Catering Events & Content Creation

Stephen La Rosa earns commission on this. Stated in the source: “All amazon links are affiliate links” Kept and labelled rather than dropped: a paid endorsement is still evidence, and you should be the one to decide what it is worth.

13:05 supports Stephen La Rosa earns commission on this

It's like super super thin. Very good for like scooping under things.

performance Uses it professionally What's In My Knife Roll! My Top Tools for Michelin Kitchens, Catering Events & Content Creation

Cites shape and form

because it's like curved like this, you can scoop make very good like contact on the protein you're trying to scoop.

13:05 supports Stephen La Rosa earns commission on this

if I'm pulling something out of a pan and I want the drippings to kind of like juice on down, this is what I would use.

use-case fit Uses it professionally What's In My Knife Roll! My Top Tools for Michelin Kitchens, Catering Events & Content Creation

Global fish spatula

1 voice 3 claims no objections from restaurant professionals

13:35 supports Stephen La Rosa

And I think I've had this thing for 10 plus years and still looks great.

durability Uses it professionally What's In My Knife Roll! My Top Tools for Michelin Kitchens, Catering Events & Content Creation

Cites durability

13:35 supports Stephen La Rosa

It is great for smaller proteins.

use-case fit Uses it professionally What's In My Knife Roll! My Top Tools for Michelin Kitchens, Catering Events & Content Creation

13:35 supports Stephen La Rosa

This has come in use in every stage of my cooking career.

ownership Uses it professionally What's In My Knife Roll! My Top Tools for Michelin Kitchens, Catering Events & Content Creation

Gir silicone spatula

1 voice 2 claims 1 objection

11:05 supports Stephen La Rosa earns commission on this

Very high quality, good quality silicon

performance Stopped using it What's In My Knife Roll! My Top Tools for Michelin Kitchens, Catering Events & Content Creation

Cites build quality

11:35 objects Stephen La Rosa earns commission on this

Uh, I never brought this to a kitchen. This has mostly been a gag gift.

use-case fit Owns it What's In My Knife Roll! My Top Tools for Michelin Kitchens, Catering Events & Content Creation

It's very big, but very overkill.

What do restaurant professionals say about spatulas and turners in general?

Not a recommendation for a specific product: technique, materials and what to look for in spatulas and turners. Citable on its own terms. There are 16 of them; the 15 with the strongest evidence are below.

1:00 supports Lynne of The Splendid Table Home Cooks

This is the other thing I can't live without: a flat-bottomed wooden spatula.

recommendation Owns it Lynne's Favorite Tools for the Kitchen

11:05 supports Stephen La Rosa

Super, super versatile. Cannot recommend enough.

recommendation Uses it professionally What's In My Knife Roll! My Top Tools for Michelin Kitchens, Catering Events & Content Creation

Cites versatility

5:31 supports Billy Parisi speaking on Chef Billy Parisi Chef

I was introduced to the fish spatula back in culinary school and it's designed in a way where it's thin enough to easily get under whatever it is you're cooking and has an angled lip so that you can do it with these in a pan it will 100% help you remove and flip over a piece of fish with without tearing it

performance Uses it professionally Cook Like a Pro with These 15 Must-Have Kitchen Tools

Cites ergonomics

14:05 supports Stephen La Rosa

So, on the subject of spatulas, this is like a tiny little mini offset spatula. Very, very useful.

use-case fit Uses it professionally What's In My Knife Roll! My Top Tools for Michelin Kitchens, Catering Events & Content Creation

4:01 supports Ian Fujimoto

It doesn't scratch up my bowls. It doesn't scratch up my pans. It doesn't scratch anything. They're delicate. They're gentle. And they're so [music] easy to use.

performance Owns it Top 10 Most Needed Kitchen Tools

Cites scratch resistance

4:01 supports Ian Fujimoto

Silicone spatulas are simultaneously one of the toughest things I have in the kitchen, as well as the softest thing. They take an absolute [music] beating, but they're also really soft, right?

durability Owns it Top 10 Most Needed Kitchen Tools

Cites build quality, durability, ease of cleaning

But not all silicone spatulas are made the same. These are mine. And if you can't tell, they all share one [music] thing in common. They are a solid piece of silicone from top to bottom.

if you have a spatula that is entirely made of silicone from top to bottom, there's no seam for stuff to get wedged into.

14:35 supports Stephen La Rosa

spreading stuff in general. Super useful, super cheap.

value Uses it professionally What's In My Knife Roll! My Top Tools for Michelin Kitchens, Catering Events & Content Creation

Cites price

5:32 supports speaking on Bon Appétit

I like using my offsets to kind of like pick things up.

use-case fit Uses it professionally Inside 20 Chefs' Knife Rolls: Pro Chefs Reveal Their Go-To Tools | Restaurant Talks | Bon Appétit

So, I would use to scoop up something with the offset and use the tweezer to grab something. So, it's really good for plating.

4:02 supports speaking on Bon Appétit

These are my funny little spatulas and I love them all.

appearance Uses it professionally Inside 20 Chefs' Knife Rolls: Pro Chefs Reveal Their Go-To Tools | Restaurant Talks | Bon Appétit

Cites appearance, build quality, handle

I cherish them and they're steel. They have these beautiful wooden handles.

5:01 supports Ian Fujimoto

So, when you're going to pick these out, don't worry about looking for the name brand. Don't worry about looking for the fancy one. Look for the one that is one single piece of silicone.

recommendation Owns it Top 10 Most Needed Kitchen Tools

Cites build quality

4:01 objects Ian Fujimoto

If you have one that has a seam, I I don't even have one to show you cuz I don't own one. But if you have one that has a seam that meets at the [music] head, then what's likely going to happen is over time food is going to get stuck in that crevice and it's going to get nasty and gross.

durability Owns it Top 10 Most Needed Kitchen Tools

Cites ease of cleaning (against)

1:30 supports Lynne of The Splendid Table Home Cooks

When you try to clear out a sauce pan or a sauté pan, that's how much surface is touching the bottom of pan; it's not going to move anything. Use something like this and you can quickly save the sauce from burning.

use-case fit Owns it Lynne's Favorite Tools for the Kitchen

6:02 supports Billy Parisi speaking on Chef Billy Parisi Chef

it's goofy I know but it works like a charm and for 10 or 12 bucks it's absolutely worth it

value Cook Like a Pro with These 15 Must-Have Kitchen Tools

Cites price

3:00 supports Joshua Weissman Chef

i don't like to use metal stirring spoons i much prefer to use something like a wooden stirring spoon or a silicone spatula which are also great for scraping stuff out

Two judgements rest on this sentence:

use-case fit Owns it
recommendation Owns it

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14:35 supports Stephen La Rosa

I like the wooden handle versions cuz I think they look kind of cute and romantic.

appearance Uses it professionally What's In My Knife Roll! My Top Tools for Michelin Kitchens, Catering Events & Content Creation

Cites appearance

How do spatulas and turners score among restaurant professionals?

Computed only from claims about spatulas and turners by people we have grounds to call restaurant professionals, so the axes answer “according to restaurant professionals” rather than “according to everyone”.

Domain authority

1 recommender, weighted by demonstrated expertise in spatulas and turners. Weighted by expertise in this category, never by audience size.

Independent consensus

1 independent voice across 1 source. How many independent voices converge, unweighted.

Long-term ownership

no dated ownership reports yet. Volume and length of dated first-hand ownership reports.

Performance

1 performance claim. Claims about how well it does the job.

Value

no value claims yet. Claims about what it costs relative to what it does.

Repairability

no repairability claims yet. Claims about whether it can be maintained or rebuilt.

Community breadth

all evidence from a single community so far. How many distinct communities converge, rather than one echo chamber.

Recency of evidence

most recent evidence from 2017. How recent the evidence is. Old evidence is not wrong, just older.

Objections raised

no objections recorded. How much complaint is on the record. A high figure means the drawbacks have been stated and quoted, not that the thing is worse.

These are separate measurements, not components of a score. They are never added together, and there is no overall rating, because which of them matters depends on what you are buying the thing for. An axis that says no evidence means nobody has spoken about it, not that the answer is low.