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    Best Spatulas to Help You Scrape and Flip Your Way to Culinary Success

    We flipped pancakes, tossed omelets, turned burgers, and fried fish to find the best turner spatulas for all of your stovetop cooking needs

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    The GIF shows a pancake being flipped with a spatula
    We evaluated nine spatulas, including Williams Sonoma Stainless-Steel Silicone Slotted Turner (shown here), and used them to flip pancakes, scramble eggs, cook burgers and fish, and chop up ground beef.
    GIF: Lisa Fogarty/Consumer Reports

    Some cooking utensils are nice to have, but you can forgo them and still whip up a decent meal. But without a quality spatula, there is no meal—only half-burnt and half-uncooked ingredients.

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    The spatula, aka turner spatula, is different from a baking spatula in that it is the cooking workhorse that you’ll use to flip heavy and light foods, chop up ground meat in a pan, sauté vegetables, and create restaurant-worthy omelets. It’s a good idea to invest in a few spatulas of different materials and designs so that you can select the right one based on the food you’re cooking and the pot or pan you’re using, whether it’s a stainless steel cookware set or a nonstick frying pan that should be used only with silicone, plastic, and wooden spatulas and never with metal.

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    We evaluated nine popular spatulas from six brands, including Oxo, Rachael Ray, and Williams Sonoma, putting them to the test as we flipped countless pancakes, burgers, filets of sole, and omelets and used them to break up ground beef in a stainless steel wok. These spatulas were comfortable to use, the most practical, and cleaned like a dream.


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    Lisa Fogarty

    Lisa Fogarty is a senior multimedia content creator at Consumer Reports. She studied journalism at Columbia University and has written numerous health, parenting, fitness, and wellness articles for The New York Times, Psychology Today, Vogue, and NPR. Lisa is passionate about mental health and is a co-creator of The Hunger Trap Podcast, which focuses on eating disorders. In her spare time she surfs, plays the guitar, and kickboxes. Follow her on X: @lisacfogarty