The flipper is simply a tool for easily flipping of foods. When the food is completely done on one side, you grab the flipper with a firm grip and turn it around 180 degrees so that the other side of the food starts to cook.
The word is a utensil, as in a kitchen utensil. Plural is utensils.
If this is for That's Life Puzzles the answer for Kitchen tool is Utensil.
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It is a kitchen utensil
it is a tool used for cooking /baking in the kitchen
They are tools made of aluminium
ice pick
Vegetable Peeler
Kitchen utensils are any tool used in the kitchen. Picture above gives a basic idea.
That is the 'mallet'
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kitchen utensil