The fish spatula is an essential part of every chef's tool kit, and useful for all kinds of everyday cooking tasks.
It has a short handle, a metal flipper with large slots cut into it, and an angled front edge with a blade like bevel, making it more lightweight and easier to manipulate than the longer spatulas often found in home kitchens.
That blade like edge and thin metal flipper make it the best spatula for sliding under pieces of food without accidentally jamming into them; if a piece of chicken or fish is sticking slightly to the pan, these features can make all the difference between a clean flip and a shredded chunk of protein.
A good fish spatula is just as adept at handling half-pound burgers or neatly flipping pancakes as it is at turning fragile fish fillets. It is, for the most part, one of those wonderful and inexpensive yet endlessly helpful kitchen tools.