Edit: I decided to throw it out and order a new stainless steel one that’s all one piece. Thanks for the help!

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    9 months ago

    I can relate to not wanting to throw something away if you can just fix it, but I guarantee you will save yourself a lot of time and stress if you just go down to your local thrift shop with a kitchen section and pick one of the dozens of spatulas they will have for like $0.50.

    The last thing you want is the mess and possible pain of your repaired spatula breaking under the stress of lifting a hot, oily food from the pan.

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        139 months ago

        Just get metal with a plastic or wooden handle. I got a $3 one 5 years ago and it works great. Cast iron can handle metal on metal.

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          89 months ago

          Not great for ceramic coatings though.

          Ours is like this and is at least 12 years old. I believe the plastic is over molded directly onto metal handle which sits about 1.5 cm into the plastic.

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            19 months ago

            Check the border of the spatula, it looks like you are “eating” it with time, not good for the health

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              19 months ago

              It got slightly melted along the leading edge once, so I trimmed/files it back to make it chamfered again.

              I’m sure it sheds some microplastics, like pretty much everything, but I prefer a little of the spatula, to scraping the nonstick ceramics.

              We really only use this with a couple pans, and use metal in our cast iron, though one of our favorite metal spatulas has a plastic handle that’s been melted dozens of times from resting on the rim of the pan.