This handy plastic kitchen tool will help you scrape your bowl, pan, or counter with ease. It is also helpful for filling pastry bags and a variety of other uses around the kitchen. Also available as part of our make-at-home Bread Kit.

The plastic razor blade has been great for cleaning messes from the stovetop without fear of scratching our brand-new appliance, but I've also reached for it for other things. With hot water, I've used it to scrape label residue from the bottoms of newly purchased plastic storage containers.

Paint Scraper Types and Uses While putty knives can come in flat or chiseled edge varieties and are generally flexible, paint scrapers are most often angled and stiff. The angled edge is what helps get under old paint more effectively than a straight blade would. Scrapers can also be used to remove residues on walls.

A hand scraper is a single-edged tool used to scrape metal or other materials from a surface. This may be required where a surface needs to be trued, corrected for fit to a mating part, needs to retain oil (usually on a freshly ground surface), or to give a decorative finish.