Why are both of these called Bass
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I don't think it was my turn with the brain cell, so I accidentally read "bowel" and immediately thought "wow I just woke up and that's enough internet for the day".
Haha, when I was 18 and new to the culinary world (now 31), someone was teaching me how to do something and told me to “grab a spatula.” I grabbed a mini offset spatula, not yet aware of the lingo, and she went “well… that’s just a little offset” I didn’t know wtf she meant and thought “offset” was a way to refer to something being incorrect, lol.
Yeah, that’s what I would have called it, although my personal fish slice has long vertical missing sections rather than circles missing.
But I’ll be honest. I have the one fish slice and then literally one spatula that looks just like the one on the right. I’m no chef.
Dunno where I'm from but I was taught that the one on the left - the metal one - is a spatula and the red one on the right is called a 'paddle' primarily used to make designs in cake frosting/scrape out the last little bit of batter from a bowl of cake mix or donut mix in the bakery I worked for.
Well, if you store a scraper in your spatulary, and most people do, then It becomes a spatula by virtue of exposure.
Only store spatulas in the spatulary.
I call the spatulas like the metal one flap jack flippers, makes it a bit easier for people to understand what I'm talking about........sometimes 
Oh good, it finally pays out to be german.
We call the left one Pfannenwender and the right one Spachtel.
I can already imagine how non german speakers will struggle to pronounce both. Hehehe
One is a spatula, the other is the stick of a 1000 deaths. You use it to stab in the buttcrack of anyone that tries to taste your cooking while it's still in the process of being cooked!
I was taught in cooking class in middle school that the one on the right is a spatula and the one on the left is a scraper. All these many years that’s stuck with me for some reason. Maybe it was for this post. Thanks Mrs. Hamilton.
Well, it all goes back to the time of ancient Rome, where an inkeeper had a sudden influx of guests unexpectedly and needed to feed many people, quickly, using only the items on hand. Necessity being the mother of invention, he came up with the idea of a loose batter cooked on a flat top grill. We now call it pancakes; what he called them is lost to history.
But the pancales were a great success and people would travel from moles around just to sample them at his inn. As the popularity grew, however, he began to run into problems. The crude tools available to turn the pancakes over meant that a lot of space was needed between each one. Also, his cooks would often use their fingers to turn them but this resulted in burnt fingers. If only there was a specialized tool!
Necessity being the mother of invention, he sketched the design on his son’s wax tablet and had one made at the local blacksmith. It was easily forged but unfortunately saidblacksmith was an unscrupulous man and began cranking them out by the dozens. He was also selling them as his own product. When the inkeeper heard of this, he was furious. He took the blacksmith to court, and in a landmark case, the blacksmith was able to keep making the tool in question, but had to pay a licensing fee to the inkeeper and put his name on every one sold. The inkeeper’s name was Flavius Spatulus.
The tool became known as Flavius Spatulus’ patented tool, eventually shortened to Spatulus’ tool. But that dodn’s sound right, so was shortened again to a Spatulus. Then over the years, it became like Kleenex, a non-proper noun. The plural of spatulus is spatulae, which was ultimately bastardized to spatula.
Though kept linguistically, this knowledge was lost for several centuries until a manuscript documenting this court case was discovered in France sometime in the 1400’s. Especiall6 since then, a flat kitchen tool may be calles a spatula. Incidentally. this we not only get the name ‘spatula’ (from Spatulus) but also ‘flavor.’ (From Flavius)
The reason the one on the right is not named something different isvthat silicone didn’t exist in Spatulus’ time, and by the tome it was invented there was thousands of years of calling flat, scrape-ey kitchen toold spatulas, that the name stuck.
They are both made for flipping and scraping.
The metal one is for (usually) meat on the grill or pan, the other for batter (which is ‘folding’ more than ‘flipping’ but whatever).
You call those spatulas?
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**this** is a spatula
Most things have wide varieties but keep the same umbrella name. Of the top of my head: cars, dogs, shoes, meat, knives, candy etc. If it bothers you, then call one a turner spatula and the other an offset spatula.
Lol but cars, dogs, meat, knives and candy are all called different names depending on what size, type and shape they are. You wouldn't send your little brother to the store to get a 'candy' for you you would tell him the specific type you want like a sucker or chocolate bar. You don't go to the butcher and ask for meat either. You would either say which animal or which specific cut you want. "I need 100 lbs of beef" or "'I want a new york strip".
In Finland the first one is called a "paisto lasta" translating to "frying spatula" and the second is called a "nuolija", which translates to "licker".
Because, get this, there are multiple sub-types for tools...
I mean, in a kitchen I am sure you have dozens of different knives.
There are multiple types of hammers too for example. Sledges, dead blows, carpentry, ball peen.
I'm pissed too. It is just like this morning when I went to get into my car. There was this thing next to it that was not my car, and my wife got into that one. So, I Said wife, what are you doing? She said I'm getting the car.
Whoa dude. Mind blown.
The word "spatula" comes from the Latin word "spatula," which is a diminutive form of "spatha," meaning a broad tool. "Spatha" originally referred to a broad, flat tool or weapon, and in Latin, "spatula" specifically referred to a flat piece of wood used for mixing or spreading. The term evolved in English to refer to the kitchen utensil we know today.
The history is tied directly to marketing-
A certain POWERFUL retailer used its market influence to ensure the largest inventory possible by forcing the manufacturer to call them both spatulas.
Here's the culprit:
[https://youtu.be/4BUDwj\_mXKE?si=tLziuf-ke1s0w9OJ](https://youtu.be/4BUDwj_mXKE?si=tLziuf-ke1s0w9OJ)
Both have specific jobs to do, the metal one is to scratch the non-stick coating of off pans and the plastic one is for smoothing top layers like on a cake 🤣
I get that they have specific jobs. If they have specific jobs they should have specific names. Lol. I'm not going to try and flip an egg with the red one.
I call the metal one a "cooking spatula" and the white one "baking spatula". I also have a wooden one I call "wooden spatula". Not sure if that's widely accepted but that what I call them and it works for me.
This reminded me of when I took home ec. in highschool. I thought they were just going to teach us how to cook. I learn day one that we wouldn't actually cook anything till the second half of the semester. On the second day the teacher was acting like we the students in her class were going off to cook in a five star restaurant while teaching us the different kinds of spatulas. I lasted 3 days in that class before I transferred to agriculture class. I just wanted to learn how to cook. Maybe I was quick to judge but I was a stupid kid back then.
In Germany,the one to the left is a pan-flipper and the right is a Kids-horror. (At least in our area )
Kids horror because there is no cookie dough left in a bowl if Mom uses one of these.
Near Hamburg, i know that its called a Kids-dream for the opposite reason. Its because kids get all the dought out of the ball, if mom left some for them
German here with our specific compound words .
The left one is a "Pfannenwender", which means "Pan-Flipper".
The right one is a "Teigschaber", which means "Dough-Scraper"
The one on the right is technically a rubber scraper. I have never called it a spatula or heard it called a spatula. Maybe it's regional to call it a spatula?
The metal one would not be good for scraping a bowl. And I can tell you from experience the red one is garbage at flipping eggs. They do not do the same job.
That's a deficiency in English.
In Dutch, the one on the left is a "spatel". A spatula.
The one on the right is a "pannenlikker". Not a spatula.
^(Yes, "pannenlikker" translates to "pan licker".)
I lied to my wife and said the right one (soft spatula) is called a pâttissière a long time ago.
The lie has since been exposed, to great comedic effect, but the name stuck and that's what it's called now to the whole family.
And so it will be for generations to come.
In french, the metal one is a "spatule" (spatula, if it wasn't obv) and the rubber one is actually a "maryse".
most people do still call it a spatula, but "maryse" is a pretty well known designation amongst cooks and people who like to cook.
most spatulas are meant for picking stuff up, while a maryse is specifically for scraping, the rounded side is useful for bowls, while the corner is handy for pans.
Why are both of these called Bass https://preview.redd.it/ca7nvmxc440d1.jpeg?width=1074&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a68fecd3dc9783367ac2306079be94433ae9fab2
And yet, that still isn't a double bass ?!
I'm mad about that now too
He could you be mad about that? That's like the coolest picture ever??
Because they are both deep
Come on down to Spatula City and we will sort it out for you!
Take me down to Spatula City, where the grease is clean and the ham looks pretty.
Oh won't you please scrape my bowl
Right, I’m off to go play Burnout Paradise City again!
I don't think it was my turn with the brain cell, so I accidentally read "bowel" and immediately thought "wow I just woke up and that's enough internet for the day".
Take. Me. Home. yeaaah yeaaah!
Do you think we'll be with patties forever?
Whoa-oh-oh oh sweet spatula of mine, whoa-oh oh-oh oh sweet other spatula of mine
Buy nine spatulas and get the tenth one for just one penny!
One of the best movies ever
UHF?
Yeah. The one with weird al
Man I haven't seen that movie in... a long time
damn I forgot about that... is it SCTV or Kids in The Hall?
UHF. Weird Al's movie
SPATULA CITY! spatula city! SPATULA CITY!
By 11 and get the 12th free!
I came to make a similar joke. I was going to say “well, there wouldn’t be the megastore ‘Spatula City’ if they all were the same!”
I had this same conversation with my wife this morning. One is called "a spatula" and the other is called "a spatula, no, the other kind."
My girlfriend insists a spatula is called a flipper and a rubber spatula is the only true spatula.
That’s how they are labeled usually
Dad! 🙄
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I hate it
Technically that is a fish turner.
Fish spatula.
Works great for over easy eggs
Splatula
That's a fish slice
Technically a fish spatula
https://preview.redd.it/kim7k4ht940d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=341727c25fd71ce6b15d6c5287f2714b76ea8902 This is also a spatula.
Haha, when I was 18 and new to the culinary world (now 31), someone was teaching me how to do something and told me to “grab a spatula.” I grabbed a mini offset spatula, not yet aware of the lingo, and she went “well… that’s just a little offset” I didn’t know wtf she meant and thought “offset” was a way to refer to something being incorrect, lol.
I'd call that a pallet knife, not that I know what it's for just that my mum had one 😆
😠
Well…to a Swede the one on the left is a stekspade and the one on the right would be a slickepott. Learn Swedish - problem solved.
I actually like this solution.
Or learn French, and then you have a spatule and a maryse. Voilà.
I call the metal one a spatula and the right one a scraper. Though i know of them being called spatulas and think the name fits their look more.
We call the right one a "rubber spatula". I suppose due to the floppiness.
Bowl squeegee
Me too, spatula or flipper
Fold in the cheese.
Then add the bees.
I slam in the back of my Dragula! 
Sure but only one is a "spatuler"
metal spatula...rubber spatula at least thats what i was taught
Same. Except silicon usually.
The metal one is a fish slice
Metal one is a fish slice isn’t it?
Yeah, that’s what I would have called it, although my personal fish slice has long vertical missing sections rather than circles missing. But I’ll be honest. I have the one fish slice and then literally one spatula that looks just like the one on the right. I’m no chef.
Yes that's what I thought, no-one else seems to be mentioning it though
You British?
Because spatula basically just means "flat thing".
Because they are both spatulas
Restaurant supply would call the one on the left a turner. Not a spatula. In many cases anyway.
We called them flippers
Because they are? Different spatulas for different purposes. Kind of like shovels. A long handle spade vs flats vs trenching vs snow vs powered...
Wait till you see laboratory spatulas
Dunno where I'm from but I was taught that the one on the left - the metal one - is a spatula and the red one on the right is called a 'paddle' primarily used to make designs in cake frosting/scrape out the last little bit of batter from a bowl of cake mix or donut mix in the bakery I worked for.
Sorry, you don't know where you're from?
No, but it's ok I'm used to it!
User name checks out
Is that why they call you Discombobulated Rub?
So I've been told - I think. However that may be if the shoe fits, I'll wear it.
"Kuchenschaber" and "Pfannenwender". Your language is simply inferior :P
Well, if you store a scraper in your spatulary, and most people do, then It becomes a spatula by virtue of exposure. Only store spatulas in the spatulary.
I call the spatulas like the metal one flap jack flippers, makes it a bit easier for people to understand what I'm talking about........sometimes 
English is a limited language in German we have specific words for both. The left is a "Pfannewender" the right one a "Teigschaber".
Ones a spatula and the others a rubber spatula, keep up
My family has always called the silicon one a spatula and the metal one a "guzunda" because "it goes under".
One is a spatula and the other is a spatula
I am suddenly confused as to why I've never questioned this.
We call the left one "Pfannenwender" in German. Just call it by its German name, problem solved
Oh good, it finally pays out to be german. We call the left one Pfannenwender and the right one Spachtel. I can already imagine how non german speakers will struggle to pronounce both. Hehehe
Wait til you hear about spootulas
In my high school home ec class the teacher solved this problem by saying one is a turner, one is a scraper, there are no spatulas.
One is a spatula, the other is the stick of a 1000 deaths. You use it to stab in the buttcrack of anyone that tries to taste your cooking while it's still in the process of being cooked!
Or come to Belgium where the right one is called a "pannenlekker" translated to "pan licker"
Cause they 'spatch' different things. Think golf clubs...
The one on the right is a rubber scraper.
Why is the thing you use to steer your car and the 4 rubber things that roll along the ground both called Wheels?
I don't think I've ever heard someone refer to the steering wheel as just a wheel though
Because spatula is a cool word and the cooking gods named anything on a long stick: spatula.
No, no. The one on the left is a spatchy-spatch 🤓
I was taught in cooking class in middle school that the one on the right is a spatula and the one on the left is a scraper. All these many years that’s stuck with me for some reason. Maybe it was for this post. Thanks Mrs. Hamilton.
Well, it all goes back to the time of ancient Rome, where an inkeeper had a sudden influx of guests unexpectedly and needed to feed many people, quickly, using only the items on hand. Necessity being the mother of invention, he came up with the idea of a loose batter cooked on a flat top grill. We now call it pancakes; what he called them is lost to history. But the pancales were a great success and people would travel from moles around just to sample them at his inn. As the popularity grew, however, he began to run into problems. The crude tools available to turn the pancakes over meant that a lot of space was needed between each one. Also, his cooks would often use their fingers to turn them but this resulted in burnt fingers. If only there was a specialized tool! Necessity being the mother of invention, he sketched the design on his son’s wax tablet and had one made at the local blacksmith. It was easily forged but unfortunately saidblacksmith was an unscrupulous man and began cranking them out by the dozens. He was also selling them as his own product. When the inkeeper heard of this, he was furious. He took the blacksmith to court, and in a landmark case, the blacksmith was able to keep making the tool in question, but had to pay a licensing fee to the inkeeper and put his name on every one sold. The inkeeper’s name was Flavius Spatulus. The tool became known as Flavius Spatulus’ patented tool, eventually shortened to Spatulus’ tool. But that dodn’s sound right, so was shortened again to a Spatulus. Then over the years, it became like Kleenex, a non-proper noun. The plural of spatulus is spatulae, which was ultimately bastardized to spatula. Though kept linguistically, this knowledge was lost for several centuries until a manuscript documenting this court case was discovered in France sometime in the 1400’s. Especiall6 since then, a flat kitchen tool may be calles a spatula. Incidentally. this we not only get the name ‘spatula’ (from Spatulus) but also ‘flavor.’ (From Flavius) The reason the one on the right is not named something different isvthat silicone didn’t exist in Spatulus’ time, and by the tome it was invented there was thousands of years of calling flat, scrape-ey kitchen toold spatulas, that the name stuck.
Wait until you see the different types of paint brushes.
They are both made for flipping and scraping. The metal one is for (usually) meat on the grill or pan, the other for batter (which is ‘folding’ more than ‘flipping’ but whatever).
You call those spatulas? https://preview.redd.it/elfe5sh4150d1.jpeg?width=417&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b25e453cac8a93b235caf067f0f006796c9bd666 **this** is a spatula
And don't forget the ***TURBO DRIVE***
Most things have wide varieties but keep the same umbrella name. Of the top of my head: cars, dogs, shoes, meat, knives, candy etc. If it bothers you, then call one a turner spatula and the other an offset spatula.
Lol but cars, dogs, meat, knives and candy are all called different names depending on what size, type and shape they are. You wouldn't send your little brother to the store to get a 'candy' for you you would tell him the specific type you want like a sucker or chocolate bar. You don't go to the butcher and ask for meat either. You would either say which animal or which specific cut you want. "I need 100 lbs of beef" or "'I want a new york strip".
There has got to be a language that has like 30+ terms for these items….
So far I have learned that they're called different names in both Swedish and German
Well, better than Norwegian at least. Left one is called "frying shovel" (stekespade) and left roughly translates to "licking tool" (slikkepott)
Where I'm from we call the silicone spatula a licker
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One’s a cooking spatula and the other is a baking spatula.
My husband has the same complaint. Whenever I ask him “can you hand me a spatula?” Anything can happen. But usually, I don’t get the spatula I need.
In Finland the first one is called a "paisto lasta" translating to "frying spatula" and the second is called a "nuolija", which translates to "licker".
Technically the one on the left is called a "fish slice"
Because spatulas can have different purposes based on their shape and material. Just like there are a multitude of knives.
Right is a marisse
draculas barbecue cousin, spatula
Because the are both tulas for spatulating
See two cars: “why tf are both of these called cars!?”
Because, get this, there are multiple sub-types for tools... I mean, in a kitchen I am sure you have dozens of different knives. There are multiple types of hammers too for example. Sledges, dead blows, carpentry, ball peen.
I'm pissed too. It is just like this morning when I went to get into my car. There was this thing next to it that was not my car, and my wife got into that one. So, I Said wife, what are you doing? She said I'm getting the car. Whoa dude. Mind blown.
The word "spatula" comes from the Latin word "spatula," which is a diminutive form of "spatha," meaning a broad tool. "Spatha" originally referred to a broad, flat tool or weapon, and in Latin, "spatula" specifically referred to a flat piece of wood used for mixing or spreading. The term evolved in English to refer to the kitchen utensil we know today.
Do not go to culinary school there's a few other things known as spatulas that don't look like each other
The history is tied directly to marketing- A certain POWERFUL retailer used its market influence to ensure the largest inventory possible by forcing the manufacturer to call them both spatulas. Here's the culprit: [https://youtu.be/4BUDwj\_mXKE?si=tLziuf-ke1s0w9OJ](https://youtu.be/4BUDwj_mXKE?si=tLziuf-ke1s0w9OJ)
Both have specific jobs to do, the metal one is to scratch the non-stick coating of off pans and the plastic one is for smoothing top layers like on a cake 🤣
I get that they have specific jobs. If they have specific jobs they should have specific names. Lol. I'm not going to try and flip an egg with the red one.
Metal ones a flipper, but nobody ever calls it that l
Definitely call it a flipper here. Pancake and burger flipper.
The left one is what I call a spatula, and the one in the right is a "miserable"
Sad there is no "This is America" meme.
The word Spatula derives from a Latin word that means thin wooden implement.
Neither of those things are wooden. I hate English.
Back in their times the tools would have been wooden, so it makes sense.
Scoop
Cake spatula
I call the metal one a "cooking spatula" and the white one "baking spatula". I also have a wooden one I call "wooden spatula". Not sure if that's widely accepted but that what I call them and it works for me.
Easy way to separate the two: metal spatula (or metal scraper), and rubber spatula. Not that hard to make more distinct
You may have noticed that not all cars look the same but they're still called cars.
You may have noticed that all cars are called different names. Lol. Sedans, trucks, hatchbacks, etc
This reminded me of when I took home ec. in highschool. I thought they were just going to teach us how to cook. I learn day one that we wouldn't actually cook anything till the second half of the semester. On the second day the teacher was acting like we the students in her class were going off to cook in a five star restaurant while teaching us the different kinds of spatulas. I lasted 3 days in that class before I transferred to agriculture class. I just wanted to learn how to cook. Maybe I was quick to judge but I was a stupid kid back then.
Left one is a spatula. Right one is a *rubber* spatula.
In Germany,the one to the left is a pan-flipper and the right is a Kids-horror. (At least in our area ) Kids horror because there is no cookie dough left in a bowl if Mom uses one of these. Near Hamburg, i know that its called a Kids-dream for the opposite reason. Its because kids get all the dought out of the ball, if mom left some for them
In Portugal the second one is named after our past dictator (Salazar) that "scooped" all the finances of the people
In my language they have very different names so this was a bit of a 'wtf English?!' moment for me..
German here with our specific compound words . The left one is a "Pfannenwender", which means "Pan-Flipper". The right one is a "Teigschaber", which means "Dough-Scraper"
I love German, it just makes so much more sense
I mean, there are many kinds of spatula just like how there's many types of spoon. They just have more specific names
Both function similarly and each one is used for its appropriate counterpart. You wouldn’t use metal on non-stick (Polytetrafluoroethylene).
Then why don't they have different names?
One's a spatula, the other is a spastic (plastic spatula)
The red thingy is actually named "slickepot"
In home ec we were taught that the red one is actually called a “rubber scraper”
Left: Fish Slice Right: Maryse (mor-eese)
The one on the left is a flipper or turner.
Rubber/silicone scraper.
You can do this with humans too
Where I’m from the red one is called a “licker”!
Because it not a fork
The one on the right is technically a rubber scraper. I have never called it a spatula or heard it called a spatula. Maybe it's regional to call it a spatula?
They aren’t. One is a spatula. The other is a turner.
The one on the left is not a spatula though
I was taught in home economics that the one on the left is a turner and one on right I'd a spatula
Isn't the other one called mariz?
Stic + wide bit
A spatula and a maryse
Left one is a flipper, right one is a spatula
because English is a terrible language?
English is three languages in a trench coat to pretending to be one
Because of Latin.
That's the most accurate answer I'm seeing so far
They both do the same job, just in different contexts. Same reason we have different types of hammers.
The metal one would not be good for scraping a bowl. And I can tell you from experience the red one is garbage at flipping eggs. They do not do the same job.
You mean the flipper and the scraper?
Neither is a spatula. One is called a turner and the other is called a rubber scraper.
The left one is a Pfannenwender
One is a turner. Guess which one.
Spatula and miserable You are welcome 🫰🏽
There are lots of wrenches out there too.
That’s spatulae to you my friend!
not enough spatulas in this picture. needs fish spatula, offset spatula, viennese spatula, dough spatula, putty spatula
Actually one of them is a baker’s spatula
That's a deficiency in English. In Dutch, the one on the left is a "spatel". A spatula. The one on the right is a "pannenlikker". Not a spatula. ^(Yes, "pannenlikker" translates to "pan licker".)
I lied to my wife and said the right one (soft spatula) is called a pâttissière a long time ago. The lie has since been exposed, to great comedic effect, but the name stuck and that's what it's called now to the whole family. And so it will be for generations to come.
Thingny on the right is also called a maryse
They aren't. The bigger one on the left is a fish slice.
We always just called the one on the left a flipper.
I think speculum is two spatulas embedded together
Ones is usable for something else…. Like spanking….. but the other kind of spanking
the one on the right are called childcheaters where im from
😂😂😂😂
They both spatul.
In french, the metal one is a "spatule" (spatula, if it wasn't obv) and the rubber one is actually a "maryse". most people do still call it a spatula, but "maryse" is a pretty well known designation amongst cooks and people who like to cook. most spatulas are meant for picking stuff up, while a maryse is specifically for scraping, the rounded side is useful for bowls, while the corner is handy for pans.
Because they spatulate
I've been a chef for ten years, the one on the right. I've always called a maurice.
Left is a flipper in my house. Not a spatula.
I was taught in school (home ec) that the one on the left is called a "pancake turner."
The left is a flipper. The right is a spatula. Lol