Cooking Paddles

Please note that all cooking paddles come in right-handed and left-handed models.

The Better Spreader

  • Mixes, spreads and cuts
  • Super avocado knife (for quick guacamole)
  • Makes tuna or egg salad, mixes sauces
  • Cuts toast, frosts cake, serves desserts
  • Makes assembly-line sandwiches
  • Nice “first knife” for kids
  • Helps peel oranges
  • Sizes: 7.5", 8.2", 9.5" / 19cm, 21cm, 24cm

The Pan Paddle

  • For frying pans and baking pans
  • Flips food
  • Serves casseroles
  • Stirs evenly when caramelizing
  • Removes cookies from cookie sheet
  • Loosens, cuts, and lifts cakes from pan
  • Blade hugs sides of frying pans, woks
  • Leading edge lifts, turns and serves
  • Flat end evenly sweeps bottom of pans
  • Blade gets into corners and sides of cake and casserole pans
  • Size: 12" / 30 cm

The Pot Scoop

 

 

 

 

  • For stirring, serving, and baking
  • Scoops sugar or flour; beats batter
  • Strong enough to mix heavy bread dough
  • Narrow enough for little tomato paste cans
  • Great for making muffins (especially with Better Spreader's assistance)
  • Tip gets into corner of pot
  • Back of the scoop crushes lumps
  • Curved edge evenly scrapes bowl sides
  • Straight edge sweeps straight side of pot
  • Sizes: 10",11",12",14",16" / 25 cm, 28 cm, 30 cm, 35 cm, 40 cm

The Wedge

As a counter tool:
Uniquely-designed edges and surfaces for flipping, baking and serving

Short, blunt end
  • Removes cookies from the sheet
  • Wedges desserts out of the pan
  • Serves decent casserole portions

Long, sharp edge

  • Flips entire omelets gently
  • Turns cooked salmon intact
  • Keeps noodles in pot when pouring off water
  • Gathers chopped vegetables to toss into the pan

Flat surface

  • Serves as a mini-pizza peel and cutting board
  • Crushes nuts or garlic
  • Sizes: 14.5", 17.5" / 37 cm, 45 cm

As a safety tool:
Provides two-handed support when moving a heavy pot from one surface to another.

The Propeller

 

 

 

 

  • Sweeps, stirs, and spins
  • Long, slim edge sweeps sides of pot
  • Flat side wipes cleanly across rim
  • Wing-shaped blade gives a quick spin
  • Tip gets right into tight corners
  • Fetches and adds a pinch of spice
  • Sweeps contents out of blenders
  • Sweeps pot sides evenly as sauces thicken
  • Navigates well around blades of food processors
  • Gives juices, powders and dressings a quick spin
  • Stirs porridge and gravy evenly and crushes lumps
  • Pokes into bottom of tall bottles or starts a new ketchup
  • Displaces very little when mixing
  • Blends naturally-separating nut butters without overflowing
  • Sizes: 12", 14", 16" / 30 cm, 35 cm, 40 cm

The Wok Paddle

  • Stirs, turns, and serves
  • Great tool for stir frying
  • Works well for barbequing
  • Ideal for putting up jams, jellies, pickles, or sauces
  • Long handle keeps your hand away from the sizzle
  • Straight front edge keeps bottom of pot well stirred
  • Streamlined to hug sides of wok
  • Sizes: 12", 14", 16" / 30 cm, 34 cm, 40 cm

The Sprongs

  • For selecting and serving
  • Serve salads single-handedly
  • Turn items in fry pan or on grill
  • Cook on and serve from barbeque
  • French toast-makers par excellence: take bread from bowl to fry pan to plate
  • Made from a single piece of wood: no joints
  • Two working edges: curved side for turning; blunt tip for selecting and mixing in the pan
  • Sizes: 8.5", 10.5", 12.5" / 20 cm, 26 cm, 31 cm
  • NOTE: be sure to get the right size, and always squeeze in the middle. Click here for more information on how to care for your Sprongs.

The Quill (The Ebelskiver Tool)

Baking:

  • Whisking an egg
  • Mixing dry ingredients
  • Turning an ebelskiver (see video)
  • Scoring pastry 
  • Fluting a pie crust
  • Checking cake for doneness
  • Rippling icing

Cooking:

  • Making ghee
  • Rolling sausage 
  • Stir-frying cheese
  • Toasting herbs or garlic
  • Lifting an herbal bouquet out of soup
  • Flipping veggies, or a small roast in a pan
  • Testing meat for tenderness
  • Turning chicken in stock pot
  • Removing baked-on bits from Panini grill

 

Serving:

  • Picking a pickle 
  • Skewering fruit
  • Positioning portions on a plate

Beverage accessory:

  • Swizzling a tall drink
  • Stirring coffee in a Bodum
  • Scooping out pressed grounds
  • Hooking a tea bag

Miscellaneous household uses:

  • Pulling out toast rack
  • Getting to the bottom of a bottle
  • Snagging stuff out of corners
  • Reaching under blender blades
  • Poking a hole in a seal

Twice as efficient when used in pairs.

Also used as a craft quill, a cleaning quill and a sewing quill.