Scraper (kitchen)

[citation needed] Bakers and pastry chefs use this tool to help pick up, turn, and portion dough.

Additionally, the scraper is also used by pastry chefs to give sharp and smooth edges to the cakes while decorating them.

[citation needed] Some modern varieties of this tool have handles of nylon or silicone and even feature both straight and curved edges.

[citation needed] A plate scraper consists of a plastic, wooden, or metal handle attached to a flexible rubber head.

They usually resemble a putty knife with a metal blade and a metal, wood, or plastic handle, sometimes with the handle mounted at an angle to the blade to allow for more vigorous scraping parallel to the surface; others, however, are a wedge shaped piece of hard plastic molded to fit the hand and with a slightly rounded sharp edge.

Although historically, when crumb scrapers were mostly used in homes, ornate designs were used,[3] the variety most often seen currently is sized and shaped for a waiter to carry in a breast pocket, and consists of a piece of sheet metal bent into a semi-cylindrical shape closely resembling a laboratory scoopula, which is dragged across the table so that the debris is dragged towards the edge, where it can be disposed of.