The best spatula for stirring, scraping, and scrambling
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Hannah Crowley
Executive Editor, ATK Reviews
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Silicone spatulas aren’t showy or fancy like knives and skillets, but if you walk around the test kitchen, you’ll see every cook with several in their utensil crock. We use them in every arena of cooking, so we ran no fewer than 14 tests to find the best silicone spatula in our new review.
We mixed chocolate chunks into stiff cookie dough, scrambled eggs, sautéed vegetables, stirred risotto, and folded whipped egg whites into Angel Food Cake batter. We also scraped fond from stainless-steel skillets and coaxed honey from various containers (nightmare, right?).
Silicone can retain smells and stains, so we sat the spatulas in warm tomato sauce, minced garlic, and curry powder for 2 hours before cleaning them up and sniffing them to see what odors remained.
We even rested each silicone spatula in a 450-degree cast-iron skillet for 10 minutes to test their heat durability. Finally, we washed each spatula upwards of 40 times.
After all this testing, we emerged with a new co-winner, from OXO, and renewed appreciation for our longtime winner from Di Oro.
Read our full review of silicone spatulas.
The best silicone spatulas are one continuous piece of silicone, not a separate head and handle. This makes a spatula more durable and easier to clean.
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Pro Tip
Silicone can stain and hold on to smells. If hot soapy water isn’t cutting it, try soaking the spatula in 3 percent hydrogen peroxide or a bleach solution overnight.
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