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Some cooking utensils are nice to have, but you can forgo them and still whip up a decent meal. But without a quality spatula, there is no meal—only half-burnt and half-uncooked ingredients.

The name “spatula” covers a range of cooking implements, and which kind you want is determined by what kind of cooking you’re doing. Stainless steel is the best and most common material for a metal ...