MANNKITCHEN Professional Grade Stainless Steel Spatula Perfect for Cast Iron Skillets and Flat Top Grills

Very high quality item with strong steel and well built handle. Good for smash burgers as well as does not bend

My wife says that this is the best spatula that she has ever used.

This is my second one. It’s the only one I use with my cast iron pan. Got to have two in case one is dirty.

I've been using this now for about 4 years after I resurrected my cast iron skillet during the pandemic and started eating in more than wasting money ordering out. This has become one of my favorite kitchen items next to the cast iron skillet itself.Everything you could ever possibly hope to make at home but thought was too difficult/time-consuming/expensive is at your fingertips with this and a good cast iron. It's durable to the point I'm pretty sure it will survive a nuclear blast, it's kept enough of an edge to become my caveman chef's knife to slice potatoes and chicken before and after cooking using the cast iron as the surface, and it's so aesthetically fun to hold you'll feel like you just slaughtered a woolly mammoth and are serving up its well-seasoned remains to your hungry family. I'm honestly shocked I didn't review this years ago so figured I'd throw in my 2 cents and 4 years of me telling everybody I cook for who comes by "GOD I LOVE THIS THING"

Our household has transitioned to using mostly cast iron cookware and we struggled with our traditional tools, especially with stuck on food during cooking. We knew we needed to upgrade to something strong (won't bend) and durable (won't fall apart). With a lot of options out there, we decided to invest in this relatively inexpensive stainless steel flipper/scraper/spatula. That moment was back in August of 2020, but I remember getting it out of the box and being a little concerned about the rough edges of the metal. Not a good sign if the machining is rough, but we are a resourceful family and I cleaned up the edges over time with a metal file. Now, so many years later this tool is our go-to for cooking with our cast iron skillets. We love it so much that we are sad when it's in the dirty dishes. I came back to this review because we are going to buy another one to have in our rotation. Hopefully they have worked out some of the machining issues, as well as any of the poor reviews on the handle (our handle has been fine, even after going through the dishwasher regularly for years). I would give this 5 stars except that those machining issues could come back to bite some people. Not everyone is as resourceful as we are. I highly recommend otherwise. (Pictured is the flipper in its current state, the rough edges that I left as they were, and the scraping edge holding up nicely after regular use for years)

This is the Glock 19 of spatulas. I highly recommend.

I bought this as a gift after a fair amount of reviewing other products - after a couple of months of use, we can give it high marks.My wife was primarily looking for something to use in cooking loose ground meat in cast iron pans, to make it easier to break into small uniform chunks. This excels at that use. It is sturdy and stiff with tapered edges to the blade that make chopping easy. It is exactly the right width to use the longer sides in a frying pan to break up a lot of material quickly, and it is long enough to use efficiently for mixing / folding ingredients together. It is made of heavy non-flexible stainless steel and shows no sign of rust spots (though we always hand wash and dry immediately, like all of our other steel kitchen tools.)To other low-rated concerns:Ours did not have any kind of sticker on the blade (stubborn or otherwise), though I am confident that green Scotch-Brite pads would have made short work of that anyway. They will abrade the steel itself - no sticker or glue would survive.The tang does not extend the full length of the handle, but it is properly engineered. If you're putting enough pressure on it to risk bending it at this point, you're using it wrong - get a different tool.Perhaps related, we do not make "smash burgers", but this does not appear to the right tool for those. It is narrow and thick and stiff, more for chopping than compressing large burgers. I would think you would want something slightly flexible and somewhat wider than the burger.Ours has a handle that is clearly made of high quality (clear grain) hardwood and has a durable water-resistant finish. That said, we never put edged-steel or wood-handled kitchen tools in the dishwasher - wash them by hand!And while the edges of the blade do taper pretty thin to facilitate chopping, they are not what I would call "sharp". If they're too sharp for you, blunt them with sandpaper or sharpening stones. (Or in the other direction, I suppose you could actually put a real edge on them, though I'm not sure how well it would hold up, or how necessary that would be.)This is a high quality tool and I get thanked by my wife every time she uses it. Recommended without hesitation.

Handle is till firm after heavy use. The ends of the spatula are bending a little bit but it’s not an issue when cooking.