egg flipper thingy

WhiteWashMan

what do you call the utensil that flips eggs?
like a frying utility with a flat end. looks like a fly swat bnt out of shape
its not a spatula, but know one has ever given me a name for it.
just out of curiousity, and boredom....

Gordon

Actually I'm pretty sure that's a spatula. A spatula is a flat thing be it made of rubber and bendy or made of wood and good for flippering.

You really are bored

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bucks73

Amazingly they are simpy called turners. Spatulas would be more for baking and mixing and turners are for flipping and scooping things off the frying pan.:)

WhiteWashMan

turners?

thats a crap name!

i demand a technicl name for the utensil which flips my fried eggs!

Gordon

A Foodstuff "Extraflipulator" (It can also be used as a sexual tool flipmelater etc etc)

colinsky

Originally posted by WhiteWashMan
turners?

thats a crap name!

i demand a technicl name for the utensil which flips my fried eggs!

it's an "egg flipper".

Victor

I checked the box that I got my set in and it was called and 'egg turner' (set of stainless steel whisk, egg turner, serrated spoon, something else and holder £20 in Dunnes)

bucks73

So it is a turner.

What if youre not turning eggs? Is it a hash brown turner too?

Gordon

Sheesh guys, its a freakin spatula.. mmkay?

You can have wooden spatula and rubber spatula and plastic spatula, I'm sure even a mahogony spatula... maybe

tribble

How about calling it a....


Culinary Inverter


...that should cover just 'bout all bases:D

Lucutus

Fish Slice

bucks73

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Culinary Inverter

Thats so American.

In Ireland that would surely be a grub flipper.:)

WhiteWashMan

Originally posted by Lucutus
Fish Slice

nah, a flish slice is something else entirely

bonkey

Originally posted by Lucutus
Fish Slice

Thats what I always called it.

A spatula is a solid "wedge", usually for stirring or scraping. The thin flexible instrument used for flipping things (typically with a few slots cut along its length so juice isnt captured, and to reduce surface area) is a fish-slice.

jc

Gordon

guess this must be one of those - agree to disagree with threads. I will look at my spatula under different light now:)

bobsmith833

It is a frickin' fish-slice (or "slice" at is colloquially known). A spatula is less wide and does not have those cool slits for the fat to drain through.

Talk about calling a spade a multi-purpose horticultural implement...

Gordon

This is what I'm thinking when I think of spatula, what is a fish slice?

Maybe this should be the most entertaining post of the month

Lucutus

I did a quick search and found this, it's funnae, but to the point...

Fish Slice

C'mon, admit it, you all use them for the same thing...



Luc

bobsmith833

Well that kind of proves the point :-) Most of the images shown there have no slits, whereas this one:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&q=fish-slice

They nearly all do.

regi

I've heard it called a 'egg slice'

Gordon

mmmm I prefer the fish slice! I presume there's a reason why it's called that then after that picture

Kolodny

Hmmmm... interesting debate. Perhaps this calls for a poll on what they should be called... 'egg flipper thingy' being an option of course.

Victor

Originally posted by Victor
something else

Twas a potato masher.

This is and egg turner (who would flip anything when hot fat is involved?)

Victor

And this is a spatula (note it has no holes)

Dr. Loon

I call it a fish slice too.
What is the exact purpose of a spatula? To spatule? AFAIK it's sort of spreads things like a knife, only bigger!!?

bonkey

Having been firmly in the "-slice" park, I'm now thinking that spatula may also be valid.

I was just watching Ready Steady Cook over lunch, and one of the chefs (Leslie) went running across the kitchen muttering that she needed a spatula.....and came back with what I would always have known as a fish-slice.

Perhaps a fish-slice is, in fact, a particular type of spatula?

Damn.

jc

WhiteWashMan

an egg-slice, now thats sounds good

but 26 posts on the topic of an egg slice thingy is pretty good going

po0k

I call em
a)Fish Slice
b)Spatula
c)flipper-yoke

in order of usage.
If I was to go spanking someone in a BDSM scenario, and the client requested a spatula, that is what I'd use.

Toulouse

Plain old fish-slice! Spatula, hah!

bombidol

Everyone i know calls it an "Egg Lifter", strange never herd any of those other terms before.

BomB

Cake Fiend

I would name it a fish-slice, even though I've never sliced a fish with one, nor can I see how one would slice a fish with one, nor have I any idea how it got that name.

po0k

When you're frying a nice side of trout in the pan (or even Donegal Catch) it's damn handy for turning the fish, and you can 'slice' the fish with it (well, at least with ours).
Has other uses too