Wednesday, September 04, 2019

Spatula?

This ... is a spatula:
And, this ... is a spatula: 


I have always been very frustrated that these two very separate kitchen utensils used for very different things, are called the same thing. Numerous times we've been in the kitchen and had to say, "No. Not that kind of spatula. The other kind."

While Tijmen was here, we often would discuss the Dutch word for something. So we found out that in Dutch, these words are very different things.

This ... is a spatel:
And, this ... is a potten likker: 


Roughly translated, this "thing" is called a pot licker.  Isn't that brilliant? We've decided that here in our house, we are now going to called the second-kind-of-spatula a pot licker instead. We think it would be great if all English speakers would adopt it along with us!

You in?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The first one is also commonly known as a turner, which can be used to differentiate between the two.

Debbie said...

We always call the first one a spatula, and the second one we call a rubber scraper.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, I've definitely heard rubber scraper for the second one as well.

Anonymous said...

We've always called the first kind a flipper.

Bethany said...

I love it. I'm gonna start calling it a pot licker too. I grew up calling the pot licker a rubber spatula (we call the other a spatula). The boys have been taught in their foods class in school that the top one was a turner and the other a rubber scraper.