For decades, the hardest working tool in our family kitchen has been a flexible, angled, solid (non-slotted and non-perforated) flexible stainless steel turner with wood handle. Similar to a fish spatula / fish turner but without the slots. Flexible, agile, almost sharp with its beveled edge but sturdy enough to scrape a blacktop (for a few decades at least). The perfect tool for a cast iron pan, whether frying meat or flipping pancakes. The flat of the turner comes straight out of the handle with no offset, and then a slight angle an inch or two from the end.
Last night tragedy struck our home in the form of the sundering of our most beloved kitchen implement. The solid angled turner. It

