The Great Black Utensil Purge of 2025--suggestions?

[Anonymous]

AS my new year's resolution, I want to replace all my black cooking utensils. Has anyone found good alternatives?

-Flipper for stir-fry
-Pancake flipper
-slotted spoon
-Pasta claw
-tongs

I already have some great silcone spatulas.

I use enameled pans and teflon cookware so I think stainless steel is a no-go? It's also very important to me to to be able to throw everything in the dishwasher, so maybe wood is also a no-go?

if anyone has found things that work, I would be most appreciative if you could post specific names/brands of items.

[Anonymous]

Black utensils are a no-go but you’re fine with Teflon?

[Anonymous]

Didn’t the researcher correct themselves and say they miscalculated the data on black utensils?

[Anonymous]

We use silicone. Tongs are metal with silicone tips.

[Anonymous]

I swear by my GIR silicone utensils. I’ve tried the cheapie no-name ones and they barely hold up a few months before the silicone starts splitting around their metal cores. My oldest GIR flipper is older than my first grader and still going strong. Totally BIFL in my books.

https://gir.co/

[Anonymous]

We just use metal and wood. Washing a metal spoon after using enameled cookware is not a big deal. I don't use Teflon but I do use metal on cast iron, it's not that delicate.

[Anonymous]

First thing you need to do is stop using the teflon pan.

[Anonymous]

I like Oxo. Here is a good set -

https://www.macys.com/shop/product/oxo-15-pc.-steel-utensil-set?ID=14095412&pla_country=US&CAGPSPN=pla&trackingid=&m_sc=sem&m_sb=Google&m_tp=PLA&m_ac=Google_SH_PLA_Cookware&m_ag=&m_cn=GS_Cookware_Pmax_PLA&m_pi=go_cmp-21787664108_adg-_ad-__dev-c_ext-_prd-840097780436USA&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAmrS7BhBJEiwAei59iyazxQGiocu4Oyam5pAQjb2E9buBdbJqPNPpq1L934czFxIaaUs9zxoCNlcQAvD_BwE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I swear by my GIR silicone utensils. I’ve tried the cheapie no-name ones and they barely hold up a few months before the silicone starts splitting around their metal cores. My oldest GIR flipper is older than my first grader and still going strong. Totally BIFL in my books.

https://gir.co/

This is what we use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AS my new year's resolution, I want to replace all my black cooking utensils. Has anyone found good alternatives?

-Flipper for stir-fry
-Pancake flipper
-slotted spoon
-Pasta claw
-tongs

I already have some great silcone spatulas.

I use enameled pans and teflon cookware so I think stainless steel is a no-go? It's also very important to me to to be able to throw everything in the dishwasher, so maybe wood is also a no-go?

if anyone has found things that work, I would be most appreciative if you could post specific names/brands of items.

Black utensils are fine. The initial paper had a major error in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AS my new year's resolution, I want to replace all my black cooking utensils. Has anyone found good alternatives?

-Flipper for stir-fry
-Pancake flipper
-slotted spoon
-Pasta claw
-tongs

I already have some great silcone spatulas.

I use enameled pans and teflon cookware so I think stainless steel is a no-go? It's also very important to me to to be able to throw everything in the dishwasher, so maybe wood is also a no-go?

if anyone has found things that work, I would be most appreciative if you could post specific names/brands of items.

Black utensils are fine. The initial paper had a major error in it.

It's still not great: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/12/18/black-plastic-kitchen-utensils-study-risk/77049209007/

[Anonymous]

Personally I wouldn't use non stick pans, especially if you're worried about health effects.

I use metal utensils on cast iron and wooden or silicon for things I need to be careful about scratching. For plastic or silicon, make sure it's not sitting in a pot of hot food, like a spoon stirring tomato sauce. I thought wood would be a pain, but it's not bad.

You can get rid of your Teflon, switch to stainless steel, then your pans will be dishwasher safe and you can use that extra saved hand washing time to wash your wooden utensils and cutting boards

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I swear by my GIR silicone utensils. I’ve tried the cheapie no-name ones and they barely hold up a few months before the silicone starts splitting around their metal cores. My oldest GIR flipper is older than my first grader and still going strong. Totally BIFL in my books.

https://gir.co/

I love all ofy GIR utensils. If you have small hands or just prefer smaller utensils, I love all of their skinny utensils in particular.

[Anonymous]

I can’t keep up..
However, we’ve tossed

Never ends ..

[Anonymous]

I added some utensils to my last King Arthur order, and I think they are very nice.

You just want to find food-grade silicon that can withstand high heat. I'm replacing some of my black utensils but not going crazy about it. I don't like using stainless steel with my Le Crueset so I tend to just by wood or silicon. I can't do all wood, personally, because I get nervous about using wood with raw meat.