Spatulas with a long handle and smallish scraping end sometimes also called rubber scrapers.
Rubber spatula uses in baking.
Metal bench scrapers serve only that one purpose while rubber bench scrapers have other uses too.
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Unless you know for sure it s heat resistant don t use a rubber spatula for stirring food while it s cooking.
Use these in bowls pans and electric mixers to gather or consolidate batter dough and more.
A spatula is a broad flat flexible blade used to mix spread and lift material including foods drugs plaster and paints.
In medical applications spatula may be also used synonymously with tongue depressor.
The slightly curved head is helpful when removing batter or dough from a bowl or transferring the dough into baking tins.
Newer ones may be heat safe from 175 to 290 c 350 to 550 f which is much better than the ones still hanging around unused in drawers from the 1970s and 1980s.
These scrapers gather up chopped foods or dough.
The word spatula derives from the latin word for a flat piece of wood or splint a diminutive form of the latin spatha meaning broadsword and hence can also refer to a tongue.