Shop our top picks at Amazon. These flexible plastic scrapers are simple yet functional. They’re rounded on one side for scraping the bottoms of mixing bowls and straight on the other side for ...

Other more affordable scrapers have just a plastic handle, which gets uncomfortable to hold and use for an extended period of time. It is still made from plastic, so it's susceptible to breaking ...

Lesser scrapers have looser connections ... and didn’t show any degradation of the plastic bits or the foam padding on the handle. In fact, it’s recently been passed on to another Wirecutter ...