Patent ID: 6880590

Claim:
A ladle for allowing both the collection of a foodstuff from a container into said ladle and the pouring out of said foodstuff from said ladle, said container defining a container base wall and a container peripheral wall, said container base and peripheral walls merging into a container corner section, said ladle comprising: a substantially concave ladle peripheral wall, said ladle peripheral wall having a wall peripheral edge delimiting a containment volume, said ladle peripheral wall defining a wall inner surface and a wall outer surface, said ladle peripheral wall including a pouring section for facilitating the pouring out of said foodstuff from said containment volume, said pouring section having a substantially symmetrically concave configuration; a collecting section for facilitating the collection of said foodstuff from said container into said containment volume, said collecting section defining a scrapping sub-section wherein said wall peripheral edge has a substantially rectilinear configuration, said scrapping subsection extending integrally from said pouring section; a cornering sub-section wherein said wall peripheral edge has a substantially convex configuration, said cornering sub-section extending integrally from said scrapping sub-section; a handle extending from said ladle peripheral wall substantially intermediate said pouring section and said cornering sub-section; whereby said scrapping subsection is usable for both scooping the foodstuff located substantially adjacent said container base wall into said containment volume and scrapping said foodstuff from at least a portion of said container base wall and wherein said cornering sub-section is usable for both scooping the foodstuff located substantially adjacent said container corner section into said containment volume and scrapping said foodstuff from at least a portion of said container corner section.