Cooking Utensils

[flyinglentris]

I've had a number of cooking utensils for some time now and they serve me for various purpose.

The most basic are a slotted spatula, a cooking spoon and a ladle.

For pasta, long string pasta, I have a pasta rake.

For other pasta, penne, cavitappi, etc., and vegetables, I have slotted spoons, particularly a large basket slotted spoon that works very well for the purpose.

What I don't show a picture of here is tongs. I have some tongs, but they came as part of my Instant Pot pressure cooker. I do use them for other things besides what gets cooked in the pressure cooker.

 

[garlichead]

Like you I have a vast collection and some as old as I am with my tongs and fish spatula getting the most use. I use metal though.

 

[Morning Glory]

I've far too many! They need weeding...

The most used are wooden spoons, slotted spatula, tongs and perforated spoon (including a very handy small sized one).

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

I have a hard time letting go of old pots and old utensils. Last year wife encouraged me to upgrade cookware to stainless steel, but I still use the mixture of wooden spoons and hard plastic (rubber?) cooking spatulas & utensils. I don't like the way the new stainless utensils sound when they scrape the stainless pans. I've been brought up with non-stick, and therefor to avoid that at all costs hahaha.

 

[flyinglentris]

Here are my tongs.

 

[caseydog]

I have about ten pair of tongs, in three sizes. I use them more than anything. I have one pair that is plastic tipped for non-stick. I hate them. I need to just get rid of them. Oh, OXO Good Grip tongs are the best I've ever found.

I use mostly metal utensils. I have a couple silicone spatulas to save my non-stick pans for certain foods. Otherwise, I use steel. No plastic. My fish spatulas get a lot of use. They are good for more than just fish.

CD

 

[TastyReuben]

I started out with all plastic utensils - that stuff you can buy in a big bundle for $2 at the discount store.

I've since moved up, and what all-plastic stuff I have (which isn't much) is pretty heavy-duty. Most of my stuff is a metal-plastic/rubber mix, like plastic/rubber in the handle for comfort, but metal at the business end. I do have some silicon spatulas, and when I need a new utensil and I'm too lazy to research it, I buy OXO Good Grips, because their stuff is generally well-made and not terribly expensive.

I do have a metal ladle and a metal spider from IKEA that I like quite a bit. Haven't had them long, so I don't know how they'll wear, but I like them so far and when I bought them, I was impressed with the selection of utensils there.

 

[zuludog]

Perhaps like many of us I have accumulated my kitchen utensils over many years, quite a few of them hand - me - downs from parents or picked up here and there; it's mostly good quality, the usual sort of spoons, ladles, fish slices, and so on, but not especially remarkable
They are mostly stainless steel, and wooden spoons & spatulas
I have one nylon? Religious Spoon (because it's Holey) that I won't bother replacing when it wears out

However, there are two items that I made an effort to find & buy -

A Y peeler with a large comfortable handle, possibly OXO or Good Grips

A Scotch Scraper, for transferring chopped veg etc from the chopping board to a pan

Oh yes, I've just remembered
Recently I bought a set of 3 utensils with wooden handles and flexible silicone rubber business ends - a spoon, a straight, and a rounded spatula
These are good for scraping out food, especially from non - stick pans

 

[caseydog]

Perhaps like many of us I have accumulated my kitchen utensils over many years, quite a few of them hand - me - downs from parents or picked up here and there; it's mostly good quality, the usual sort of spoons, ladles, fish slices, and so on, but not especially remarkable
They are mostly stainless steel, and wooden spoons & spatulas
I have one nylon? Religious Spoon (because it's Holey) that I won't bother replacing when it wears out

However, there are two items that I made an effort to find & buy -

A Y peeler with a large comfortable handle, possibly OXO or Good Grips

A Scotch Scraper, for transferring chopped veg etc from the chopping board to a pan

Oh yes, I've just remembered
Recently I bought a set of 3 utensils with wooden handles and flexible silicone rubber business ends - a spoon, a straight, and a rounded spatula
These are good for scraping out food, especially from non - stick pans

A Scotch scraper is called a bench scraper here. Is a fish slices (typo?) a fish spatula? Oh, it took me a few seconds, but I got the "holey" spoon thing.

CD

 

[zuludog]

Yes, a fish slice and a fish spatula are the same sort of thing......at least, that's what I call them

 

[flyinglentris]

Wow. I had another older set of tongs. There's no need to say which I prefer.