Try it out for smoothing icing, crushing garlic or chopping nuts, easing a lasagne away from the sides of a baking dish and slicing it vertically into equal portions, or making chocolate curls. Once you start using your dough scraper you’ll discover that it has all sorts of other uses too.
When you’ve finished your prep using a dough scraper is the easiest way to clean up any mucky bits of flour or dough left behind on your worktop. Not only can a dough scraper be used to effortlessly lift, turn, and work dough on your work surface, it can also be used for cutting butter into flour, scraping dough out of mixing bowls, getting dough unstuck from the work surface without tearing, cutting dough into even portions (the best dough scrapers have a ruler on the edge), and transferring delicate pastries and cookies to a baking sheet - and all without getting dough stuck to your fingers. It’s roughly the size of a postcard and has a multitude of uses that save you time and hassle.