My husband is a chef at one of the most popular restaurants in our city, so you can bet everything we store in our cramped kitchen needs to make sense and work well. This viral bench scraper from OXO with over 18,000 Amazon reviews has become a mainstay in our meal prep routine for its ability to transfer ingredients from one surface or container to another, scrape food or debris clean off a cutting board, portion ingredients, level dry ones – the list spans as far as your culinary creativity goes.
My husband encourages his cooks to keep this humble bench scraper on them at all times throughout service, and there are plenty of incentives to have one on hand at home as well.
With a $15 price tag and a small space-saving fingerprint, the OXO Good Grips stainless steel multi-purpose scraper and chopper is a low-investment and high-reward kitchen tool that not enough people know about — but definitely should.
I rely on it heavily for handling food
Instead of dulling our precious knife blades when clearing our cutting boards, we use this dedicated tool to help us clean (or sort ingredients) as we go. Its blade is sharp enough to cut cleanly through tough, fibrous veggies, but not so sharp that it requires a sheath for storage. Lifting food off a pan without it sticking is usually a tricky task for me. Like a spatula but a more precise, the OXO bench scraper neatly separates sticky food from a cookie sheet or pan (just be careful around cast-iron cookware, which does not thrive against stainless steel utensils).
