Kitchen

Stainless Steel Scraper/Chopper

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Kitchen tool for scraping, crushing, chopping and measuring

Even though I’m an avid baker, I’d always thought bench scrapers were pointless until I was given one as a Christmas gift a few years back. I thought a knife or a spatula would be just as good as a scraper for most purposes. Since receiving one, however, the bench scraper has become a great multi-purpose tool in my kitchen. When I’m baking, I use it to lift and transfer pastry dough and divide cinnamon rolls. The inexpensive Norpro version I have includes a ruler on one side, which is handy to measure dough thickness. The bench scraper is also great for cleaning, though. I use it to scrape dough and other stuck-on detritus from my wooden countertop, and to remove any sort of burnt gunk from my cookie sheets. It is sharp, but not so sharp that it damages surfaces or leaves scrape marks. I’ve also used it as a pry bar on occasion. The Norpro scraper is under $6 on Amazon. For a stainless steel tool that lasts pretty much forever and has so many uses, this is a bargain.

-- Abbie Stillie 03/27/17

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