Ateco Stainless Steel Cookie Spatula, 11", Silver

This spatula is so great that I am compelled to write my first Amazon review.Great features: blade is thin, flexible, and has a nice crisp edge. It works particularly well on our Lodge cast iron skillet. The crisp edge does a nice job of scraping food off the bottom and sides as you cook (and for cleanup too). It also works well for tossing / scraping roasted vegetables on a roasting pan. And it's great for serving bars or brownies from a pan. I would NOT recommend using it on a non-stick or standard AllClad type pan as it will scratch the surface. The looped handle is great for hanging on a hook in our kitchen so this spatula is always at the ready.I bought my first of these spatulas at a high end kitchen store over 10 years ago. A tack weld on that original spatula finally broke a few weeks ago. I was thrilled to the exact same one on Amazon as that kitchen store had stopped selling this brand years ago (I know this because I tried to buy one for a friend). I ordered a replacement for our kitchen, one for our camping cook kit, and one for a relative with a new cast iron skillet. For the price, I had no concern over replacing it.I would agree with the other reviews, that with the short handle this is not your go to spatula for grilling. However, we can't live without this spatula to the point that we've been taking it on our camping trips for years for cooking over a fire and camp stove. In addition to the awesomeness noted above, it is light weight and compact to fit in our utensil roll.

We've owned a few of these for over a year now and they have never failed us despite being dropped on ceramic floor ties and being run through the dishwasher daily. I just bought 3 more as they are inexpensive and good things sometimes disappear off the market for some reason.A perfect spatula or turner for a flat top or stainless frying pan, it's a key player if you're trying to reduce the amount of plastic and teflon you eat :) I've actually found bits of plastic and nylon spatulas in food since their tips tend to melt, curl and break off in food. The curled plastic parts also tend to trap slowly decaying food and soap. Unlike plastic spatulas, these babies won't melt if you leave them on a frying pan accidentally.It's flexible enough that they don't scratch our stainless frying pans (unlike thicker, rigid stainless spatulas, which are now totally unused). This is on medium-end cookware, and your mileage may vary depending on the hardness of your cookware. Can even be used to scrape food off cookware due to the flexibility. The handle is quite rigid.+Handle is not especially long; should work for grillin, but a longer handle might be better for that purpose.+Handle appears tack-welded to blade. Hasn't failed yet, and even if it does I'd be happy as we use them constantly.+Not sharp enough to cut skin. Throw 'em blade up in the utensil basket of your dishwasher and forget about it. Use stainless or regular steel wool on them freely if necessary.+Handle stays cool due to wire design.+Unlike the Good Grips competitor (which we also own), this is solid stainless steel so you won't find a bunch of soapy water dripping out of a hollow plastic handle onto your culinary creationsoIs made of 18-8 stainless, which is not ferrous (does not strongly attract a magnet) and 18% chromium and 8% nickel.-Has a slight curve to the blade; ideally, it would be totally flat, but it's flexible enough that it doesn't usually matter.

This thin, flexible spatula is perfect for sliding under foods without disturbing the crust. Great for cookies, but really, it is now my go-to for every situation where a spatula is called for. Forget non-stick - this is the ONLY one. you need. I have 3 or 4 of them, and don't want to take a chance on them becoming unavailable.

This little spatula is great for cooking fried eggs.The thin blade bends to help get under the eggs, and then returns to its original shape.The thin blade easily slips under the edge of a frying egg without pushing or tearing.The only negative is that flipping it over to scrape the pan may cause the welds (connecting the blade to the handle) to fail.I have had one spatula fail due to weld failure, but it was several years old.I'm still rating this at 5 Stars, because the low cost and high usability of this spatula makes it a great value.RECOMMENDED!

I've used these Alteco spatulas for 25 years. They are my favorite brownie spatula because the thin metal is flexible, so it can be inserted along the edge of the pan, and then it bends to go under the brownie to remove a piece. In addition to the flexibility, the shape of the spatula--that it has straight sides, so it forms a rectangle NOT a wedge matters. The rectangular shape makes it fit the size of the brownie. Oxo has a similar spatula, but it has a wider, flaring shape that is fine for removing a slice of pie from a round dish or removing a cookie from a tray, but isn't as good for removing a rectangular piece from a square or rectangular pan. The wider size of the Oxo spatula isn't as good for lifting out piece from a tray of brownies.I ordered a new one to act as a backup for my current spatula, which I bought a few years ago. This new one is the same approximate size and shape, but slightly different from my old one. The soldered area is slightly bowed (not flat) and the rounding on the corners is different. This suggests to me that the company changed manufacturers. I hope that this new spatula will perform as well--but time will tell.I would give the old spatula 5 stars, but because the new one seems a little different and I'm not sure if it will be as good over time, I will give it 4 stars for now.