Joseph Joseph Duo Bake

There are some tools in your “batterie de cuisine” (French for “collection of cooking tools”...who says this site is not educational :-)) that you just take for granted. A bowl scraper is one of those. It’s not sexy, it’s not particularly innovative, but it’s incredibly useful. There is no better way to get every last drop out of a mixing bowl than with a bowl scraper: it hugs the shape of the bowl and really scrapes it clean, it also helps mix the ingredients in the bowl really thoroughly...neither a spoon nor a spatula does the job as well.

So what makes a humble bowl scraper into a Cool Tool? At a minimum it has to have a good shape that mimics the shape of your bowl. Then it should be flexible enough to scrape out your bowl: feeling like you’re rubbing fingernails on a blackboard, but not so flexible that it can’t get the mixture out of your bowl. And finally, it should be comfortable to hold. But sometimes there’s even more…