Kat Thompson is the audience editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. My wooden spatula has been through the wringer. It’s what I reach for when I need to scrape and deglaze a pan, it ...

Grace Cooper is a writer who specializes in shopping. Her work has appeared in The Kitchn, Apartment Therapy, Culinary Hill, and more. I have a complicated relationship with wooden kitchen utensils.

Newer isn’t always better.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We all have that one trusty kitchen tool, a favorite plastic spatula or a cutting board, that's seen better days but is hard to ...

Keep your favorite utensils out of the trash.

As more studies have been released on how microplastics and forever chemicals can leach from common kitchen tools into food, I've become more conscious of what I’m using in my kitchen. One of the ...

Kitchen utensils for cooking are made of various materials, but few offer the benefits of wooden spoons. The natural material doesn’t contain harsh chemicals and won’t react with foods that have a ...

Remember when everyone freaked out and threw away their black plastic spatulas? Well, even if that wasn’t as bad of a situation as originally declared, there’s still plenty to be concerned about when ...

TWO DECADES AGO, in his book “Pot on the Fire,” food writer John Thorne claimed that cooks can be roughly divided into knife cooks and pan cooks. While I have my preferences for both, in terms of ...