Yes! A wonderful metal spatula. I can't abide all this plastic crap common nowadays. I'm using Ecko metal cooking utensils with a sort of black "bakelite" type handle that fits so well in my hand, are nicely balanced and sadly unavailable these days. My slotted spoon recently disappeared and I'm mourning its loss.
Thanks for the link, Sheldon. They've got some really neat stuff in their catalogs that I haven't seen available before. I've saved the link for winter wandering. Janet
>Thanks for the link, Sheldon. They've got some really neat stuff in their >catalogs that I haven't seen available before. I've saved the link for >winter wandering. >Janet
I just checked out the rest of the kitchen tools, and I can see that there are several things I could use.
> Check out many more exciting reasonably priced gifts.
> No connection, just a very satisfied customer.
I have a love-hate relationship with Lee Valley/ It's like Ikea. You can't go into that store to get something without picking up a lot of other stuff because they have so many good things and you won't find them anywhere else. A couple years ago I was refinishing a dresser and needed new drawer pulls. It was the natural place to go because they have a wide variety of drawer knobs and pulls. I found some that were basically the same as the ones I needed to replace. I needed 8 but they only had 4 in stock. They assured me that they could get me the other 2 and mail them to me within a week. I paid for 8, took the 6 they had, and the other 2 were in my mail box two days later.
> Check out many more exciting reasonably priced gifts.
> No connection, just a very satisfied customer.
I need to replace a spatula virtually just like that one! Mine is cracked horizontally, and about ready to split totally (most likely from use to scrape off cooked-on foods from pans - I know: a Non-approved tool application!). The price is right, too!
> Yes! A wonderful metal spatula. I can't abide all this plastic crap > common nowadays. I'm using Ecko metal cooking utensils with a sort of > black "bakelite" type handle that fits so well in my hand, are nicely > balanced and sadly unavailable these days. My slotted spoon recently > disappeared and I'm mourning its loss.
My favorite spatula is also an Ecko, with the same black handle that you mentioned. If it breaks, I will be in trouble, because it can not be replaced. I clicked on the link, and this one comes closest to resembling the one I have, at least in size. Every time I see kitchen gadgets I look for a replacement, but they are all too big. For my own personal use, a smaller spatula works better. When people are visiting, I may be frying 6 eggs at a time, I do not want a spatula big enough to flip a mastadon steak, I need something smaller. I am hoping my spatula outlives me. :-)
Are we all freaks about our kitchen tools or is it just me?
Becca <be...@hal-pc.org> wrote: > Goomba wrote: > > Yes! A wonderful metal spatula. I can't abide all this plastic crap > > common nowadays. I'm using Ecko metal cooking utensils with a sort of > > black "bakelite" type handle that fits so well in my hand, are nicely > > balanced and sadly unavailable these days.
> My favorite spatula is also an Ecko, with the same black handle that you > mentioned. > Becca
I have two. What am I bid? "-) -- -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ http://web.me.com/barbschaller - Who Said Chickens Have Fingers? 10-30-2009
>> Check out many more exciting reasonably priced gifts.
>> No connection, just a very satisfied customer.
>I need to replace a spatula virtually just like that one! Mine is cracked >horizontally, and about ready to split totally (most likely from use to >scrape off cooked-on foods from pans - I know: a Non-approved tool >application!). >The price is right, too!
>Van
At that price order more than one... someone is going to see it and want yours.
>>> Yes! A wonderful metal spatula. I can't abide all this plastic crap >>> common nowadays. I'm using Ecko metal cooking utensils with a sort of >>> black "bakelite" type handle that fits so well in my hand, are nicely >>> balanced and sadly unavailable these days.
>> My favorite spatula is also an Ecko, with the same black handle that you >> mentioned. >> Becca
> I have two. What am I bid? "-)
Hey, I'm ready to start bidding. I just checked the seat cushions and I found 35 cents. :-)
> >>> Yes! A wonderful metal spatula. I can't abide all this plastic crap > >>> common nowadays. I'm using Ecko metal cooking utensils with a sort of > >>> black "bakelite" type handle that fits so well in my hand, are nicely > >>> balanced and sadly unavailable these days.
> >> My favorite spatula is also an Ecko, with the same black handle that you > >> mentioned. > >> Becca
> > I have two. What am I bid? "-)
> Hey, I'm ready to start bidding. I just checked the seat cushions and > I found 35 cents. :-)
> Becca
;-) -- Peace! Om
"Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." --Steve Rothstein
>> Goomba wrote: >>> Yes! A wonderful metal spatula. I can't abide all this plastic crap >>> common nowadays. I'm using Ecko metal cooking utensils with a sort of >>> black "bakelite" type handle that fits so well in my hand, are nicely >>> balanced and sadly unavailable these days. >> My favorite spatula is also an Ecko, with the same black handle that you >> mentioned. >> Becca
> I have two. What am I bid? "-)
I wanna see pictures. They were an excellently made utensil, weren't they? Nice weight, balance, feel in your hand. NOTHING I look at today compares. Its sad, really. Goomba
>> Yes! A wonderful metal spatula. I can't abide all this plastic crap >> common nowadays. I'm using Ecko metal cooking utensils with a sort of >> black "bakelite" type handle that fits so well in my hand, are nicely >> balanced and sadly unavailable these days. My slotted spoon recently >> disappeared and I'm mourning its loss.
> My favorite spatula is also an Ecko, with the same black handle that you > mentioned. If it breaks, I will be in trouble, because it can not be > replaced. > Are we all freaks about our kitchen tools or is it just me?
I wouldn't say freaks, but I think most people who cook have favorite tools in many categories.
Just ask people to recommend their favorite potato peeler or can opener if you want to start WWIII.
I also love what used to be called a Japanese cookie spatula that is useful for many jobs. It's one piece with about a 4" square blade and slightly offset tapered handle.
On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:05:03 -0600, Becca <be...@hal-pc.org> wrote: >Melba's Jammin' wrote: >> In article <7lluu5F3eupg...@mid.individual.net>, >> Becca <be...@hal-pc.org> wrote:
>>> Goomba wrote:
>>>> Yes! A wonderful metal spatula. I can't abide all this plastic crap >>>> common nowadays. I'm using Ecko metal cooking utensils with a sort of >>>> black "bakelite" type handle that fits so well in my hand, are nicely >>>> balanced and sadly unavailable these days.
>>> My favorite spatula is also an Ecko, with the same black handle that you >>> mentioned. >>> Becca
>> I have two. What am I bid? "-)
>Hey, I'm ready to start bidding. I just checked the seat cushions and >I found 35 cents. :-)
My favorite Ecko masher handle is cracked but hard as I've looked I can't replace it. So since I don't use it too often I will live with it until one day I will probably make a new handle from wood. This is more of a ricer but I've had it for some 50 years and nothing else can take its place. I use it mostly for mashing beans. They just don't make tools like they used to. I was very pleased to find that spatula at Lee Valley, evrything today is that thick nylon or rigid stainless and all are too big to work in a smallish pan... mostly there are burger flippers, not spatulas. I phoned to add it to my kiddy gift order, somehow I missed it. I phoned just in time before my order was shipped. I've never bought anything from Lee Valley that wasn't finest quality.
>>>>> Yes! A wonderful metal spatula. I can't abide all this plastic crap >>>>> common nowadays. I'm using Ecko metal cooking utensils with a sort of >>>>> black "bakelite" type handle that fits so well in my hand, are nicely >>>>> balanced and sadly unavailable these days.
>>>> My favorite spatula is also an Ecko, with the same black handle that >>>> you >>>> mentioned. >>>> Becca
>>> I have two. What am I bid? "-)
>>Hey, I'm ready to start bidding. I just checked the seat cushions and >>I found 35 cents. :-)
> My favorite Ecko masher handle is cracked but hard as I've looked I > can't replace it. So since I don't use it too often I will live with > it until one day I will probably make a new handle from wood. This is > more of a ricer but I've had it for some 50 years and nothing else can > take its place. I use it mostly for mashing beans. They just don't > make tools like they used to. I was very pleased to find that spatula > at Lee Valley, evrything today is that thick nylon or rigid stainless > and all are too big to work in a smallish pan... mostly there are > burger flippers, not spatulas. I phoned to add it to my kiddy gift > order, somehow I missed it. I phoned just in time before my order was > shipped. I've never bought anything from Lee Valley that wasn't > finest quality.
> Yes! A wonderful metal spatula. I can't abide all this plastic crap > common nowadays. I'm using Ecko metal cooking utensils with a sort of > black "bakelite" type handle that fits so well in my hand, are nicely > balanced and sadly unavailable these days. My slotted spoon recently > disappeared and I'm mourning its loss.
I have my stainless steel assorted utensils that came with my WearEver in the 50s - the spatula is great - it has slots in it, which I think helps cookies, lasagne squares, etc., slide off better. I also have the long narrow-bladed one which is useful in other ways.
>>>>>> Yes! A wonderful metal spatula. I can't abide all this plastic crap >>>>>> common nowadays. I'm using Ecko metal cooking utensils with a sort of >>>>>> black "bakelite" type handle that fits so well in my hand, are nicely >>>>>> balanced and sadly unavailable these days.
>>>>> My favorite spatula is also an Ecko, with the same black handle that >>>>> you >>>>> mentioned. >>>>> Becca
>>>> I have two. What am I bid? "-)
>>>Hey, I'm ready to start bidding. I just checked the seat cushions and >>>I found 35 cents. :-)
>> My favorite Ecko masher handle is cracked but hard as I've looked I >> can't replace it. So since I don't use it too often I will live with >> it until one day I will probably make a new handle from wood. This is >> more of a ricer but I've had it for some 50 years and nothing else can >> take its place. I use it mostly for mashing beans. They just don't >> make tools like they used to. I was very pleased to find that spatula >> at Lee Valley, evrything today is that thick nylon or rigid stainless >> and all are too big to work in a smallish pan... mostly there are >> burger flippers, not spatulas. I phoned to add it to my kiddy gift >> order, somehow I missed it. I phoned just in time before my order was >> shipped. I've never bought anything from Lee Valley that wasn't >> finest quality.
Thanks for the post. That red handled masher just below the green one is my favorite style of masher. I thought all the models I've seen like that one were over priced, now I know they are not.
-- I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
I have my mother's of that design, certainly pre-WWII and possibly pre-1930, which calls itself a "batter beater" -- and a quite similarly designed recent purchase from Cuisipro in the form of a coated whisk. Both are the best tools I know for making gravy. -- Beartooth Sciurivore, Curmudgeon On Line All my hunts succeed -- and sometimes I get meat.
> > Check out many more exciting reasonably priced gifts.
> > No connection, just a very satisfied customer.
> I have a love-hate relationship with Lee Valley/ It's like Ikea. You > can't go into that store to get something without picking up a lot of > other stuff because they have so many good things and you won't find > them anywhere else. A couple years ago I was refinishing a dresser and > needed new drawer pulls. It was the natural place to go because they > have a wide variety of drawer knobs and pulls. I found some that were > basically the same as the ones I needed to replace. I needed 8 but they > only had 4 in stock. They assured me that they could get me the other 2 > and mail them to me within a week. I paid for 8, took the 6 they had, > and the other 2 were in my mail box two days later.- Hide quoted text -
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Amazing. I hadn't realised they had all those stores. I always think of them as an Ottawa company.
I heard that one of their files (rasps?) for wood working used to sell out very quickly as it was perfect for grating nutmeg.
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:13:57 -0600, Beartooth <bearto...@comcast.net> wrote:
>On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:33:18 -0700, gloria.p wrote: > [...] >> My favorite spatula is http://tinyurl.com/yd7lqlr This one is from Sur >> la Table and I love it.
> I have my mother's of that design, certainly pre-WWII and >possibly pre-1930, which calls itself a "batter beater" -- and a quite >similarly designed recent purchase from Cuisipro in the form of a coated >whisk. Both are the best tools I know for making gravy.
For years, Macy's carried that style in nylon. They've switched display brands now and I didn't see it the last time I looked for one.
-- I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:54:46 -0800 (PST), John Kane
<jrkrid...@gmail.com> wrote: >Amazing. I hadn't realised they had all those stores. I always think >of them as an Ottawa company.
>I heard that one of their files (rasps?) for wood working used to sell >out very quickly as it was perfect for grating nutmeg.
>John Kane Kingston ON Canada
We've got this one as well as the one with the handle: http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.aspx?c=2&p=32458&cat=2,40733,44734 It's the perfect tool for parmesan cheese too. However, small sticks of cinnamon do not grate well on microplanes. I need to get some larger cinnamon sticks. Recommendations, anyone?
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