In medical applications spatula may be also used synonymously with tongue depressor.
Rubber spatula uses in baking.
Unless you know for sure it s heat resistant don t use a rubber spatula for stirring food while it s cooking.
These scrapers gather up chopped foods or dough.
Newer ones may be heat safe from 175 to 290 c 350 to 550 f which is much better than the ones still hanging around unused in drawers from the 1970s and 1980s.
Not all rubber and plastic ones are overly heat proof.
A kitchen scraper is a kitchen implement made of metal plastics such as polyethylene nylon or polypropylene wood rubber or silicone rubber in practice one type of scraper is often interchanged with another or with a spatula thus scrapers are often called spatulas for some of the various uses.
A spatula is a broad flat flexible blade used to mix spread and lift material including foods drugs plaster and paints.
The slightly curved head is helpful when removing batter or dough from a bowl or transferring the dough into baking tins.
The word spatula derives from the latin word for a flat piece of wood or splint a diminutive form of the latin spatha meaning broadsword and hence can also refer to a tongue.
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Metal bench scrapers serve only that one purpose while rubber bench scrapers have other uses too.