A flat, flexible tool used for cooking and baking to flip, scrape, or spread things like batter, sauce, or fried foods.
From Latin 'spatula,' which is the diminutive of 'spatha' (broad sword or blade), literally meaning 'small blade' because of its flat, blade-like shape.
The spatula's design hasn't changed much since Roman times because its flat-blade principle is practically perfect—this simple tool demonstrates how sometimes the best inventions work so well that there's almost no room for improvement.
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