Patent ID: 8303166

Claim:
A food flipping and turning spatula, for use with cooking apparatus of a type comprising a cooking container comprising an inner, cooking surface, the cooking surface comprising a spheroidal cooking surface, the spatula comprising: a spatula body having first and second ends, an inner surface, an outer surface, and edges connecting the inner and outer surfaces, the outer surface comprising a spheroidal spatula surface extending to the edges, the spheroidal spatula surface configured to be a complementary surface with regard to the spheroidal food preparation surface; the spatula body having a radial thickness, the outer surface having a circumferentially extending outer surface length between the first and second ends and a transversely-extending outer surface width between the first and second edges, the outer surface width being substantially greater than the radial thickness; a barrier member extending from the inner surface of the spatula body along a line connecting the first and second ends; and the inner surface of the spatula body and the barrier member being oriented transversely to one another and defining an ingredient collection region therebetween.