This thing just showed up in my kitchen today. The hell is it?

by OddFatherJuan

40 Comments

  1. tactical spatula. that’s for adding attachments.

  2. Banananonymity

    Looks like some shit someone made to serve a very specific purpose. Any brand marking?

  3. Grigori_the_Lemur

    Meant to not flex when smashing something flat but no idea what needed that kind of treatment and (apparently) finesse.

  4. QiwiLisolet

    To do grill lines evenly? And without piercing the steak?

  5. Fluid_Measurement963

    Kitchen kinkiness intensifies. “What side are you gonna get today, kitten?”

  6. kittysmooch

    the raw welds are pretty crazy, i wonder if someone diy’d it to accomplish some arcane task. i’m struggling to think of what tho, maybe some kind of weird braising or steaming setup?

  7. sayitaintsarge

    Would maybe help you flip something ?

  8. Ecstatic-Compote-595

    my guess is that it has something to do with portioning. Like you slide this through a chafing dish and whatever it picks up is the appropriate amount. Or it’s some hillbilly bullshit for cooking a dog leg or a snake head

  9. LibtAR10

    I’m gonna take a wild stab at this, some sort of wrench monkey chef concocted contraption for cleaning the grill? With those shitty sandpaper type cleaning pads?

  10. ZealousJealousy

    Are those port and starboard attachments I see?

  11. PamelaELee

    That’s the plate stretcher the fucking new guy has been looking for, for the last 1/2 hour

  12. trustcircleofjerks

    ![gif](giphy|8K36ms3JrrFuw)

    Came from here.

  13. Mywifefoundmymain

    Could this be a homemade warming thing? Day I cook a steak and want it off direct beat but still staying warm, put it on there and move on with the other cooking.

  14. Kathumandu

    Maybe it’s meant to go on a rack of some sort and those are the guidelines for it? Either that or for some reason they want to flip it and have it come out the middle? Idk those were my best guesses

  15. mocha-only

    That’s easy. It’s a spatula made specifically for

  16. 2Stripez

    You can flip a sandwich without it falling apart

  17. realdappermuis

    My guess is it’s for something oily like a latke – where you need to drip out some oil by turning it sideways before removing it from a pan- without it slipping back in. Saves on paper towels and ofc keeps em crispy

  18. ChefMate989

    Definitely for hash brown portions. Source:

    ![gif](giphy|jPAdK8Nfzzwt2)

  19. Rocketeering

    It’s a hashbrown spatula. When you slide it under the hashbrowns then flip it over those metal bars help break up the hashbrowns to ensure they cook more easily.

  20. TheNewGuy13

    What cuisine do you guys serve?

    Only thing I can reasonably think of is it has to be something that’s ’side loaded’ or flipped that keeps falling off the spatula. Look like guardrails of some kind to keep things from spilling or falling off the spatula. Maybe a training spatula for flipping something?

  21. ReasonableReserve800

    That’s a bacon stretcher.

  22. EvolZippo

    To me, this looks like a bacon press. Bacon cooks more uniformly if it’s not allowed to curl. This keeps maximum contact with the griddle, so none of it is undercooked.

  23. Global_You8515

    Reinforced spatula for chopping & scooping up stuff cooked on the flat top?

    The front and back edges would help prevent the hot juices from running down your hand (giggity) if you tilted it or from losing any food when plating & the bars would reinforce it so that you apply more force to each chop.

    I still don’t think that’s right & I can’t believe how much it’s bothering me that I can’t figure this shit out…

  24. truthfullyidgaf

    I think this is used to prevent breaking while trying to roll something while scaping it up. Idfk.

  25. Treblebaker

    How far away is the salamander?

    Would be useful for getting burgers to and from the Sally for melting cheese if close by. Would just feel a tad safer pivoting with that than an open spatula perhaps, depending on setup/skill.

    If not, no clue

  26. KlingonTranslator

    Looks like it would be useful to turn a patty over?

  27. tuchenkep

    Its for broiling single portions in the salamander.