"chisel" brush for household cleaning?

In My Humble Opinion
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Sometimes, when cleaning, a brush just doesn’t do the job. Often, I end up chipping crud away with a fingernail.

So… Is there a “fingernail” kind of “chisel” or brush or other tool?

I thought about making one out of plastic, shaving down a spatula, say… (Actually, I’m just relishing the opportunity to say “spatula,” which is one of the funniest words in the English language…) I also thought of making a kind of wedge out of soft wood, maybe a piece of pine. Say 2 inches by 9 inches, 1/4 inch thick at one end, tapering down to nothing. Again, a kind of chisel.

Ideally, it won’t scratch most surfaces… The advantage of a wooden wedge is that I can dampen it, to soften it a little…

Any suggestions? Does something like this exist?

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I’m thinking about those plastic paint or spackle “spreading” tools at hardware stores - usually they have a flat front edge, beveled on one side. Check the caulking or paint aisles.

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I just use an old credit card, particularly for scraping off dishes.

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Aye on the old credit card. I keep one in the junk drawer and one above the sink, for dishes.

Oh and one in the laundry room for when I had a dumbass roommate who liked to wash and dry his bubble gum.

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Ooh! Old credit cards!

I love this place! I love you guys! That’s just exactly the kind of magic answer I wanted! (And…I’ll also visit a hardware store and look at spackle spreader thingies.)

Thank you!

ETA: I love the login name Ferret Herder. I’ve known people who kept pet ferrets, and…yeah!

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We have something like these for scrapping baked-on food off dishes. Also good for various crusty cleaning jobs

Plastic putty knives are good as well.

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My Rubbermaid kitchen brush has such a scraper. So does the Oxo Good Grips kitchen brush:

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Pampered Chef makes nylon scrapers but an old credit card works well, as does a narrow plastic spackling tool as suggested above.

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Yeah, I owned ferrets for about 15 years; think of the phrase “it’s like herding cats” but add ferret personalities. :slight_smile: For the last two years, my husband and I have owned rabbits and we absolutely adore them, but I’ve had this handle for so long that I like it.

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Oooh, Oooh, I know, I know!!!

I have a set of scrapers that do this sort of thing even better than old credit cards. Go to www.qvc.com and look for K28511, Skrapr Set of 4 Large & Small Kitchen Utility Tools
QVC Price: $18.75

(83 reviews)
I use them for all sorts of scraping tasks and they perform beautifully.

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Walmart has some, 79 cents. Look in the cookware area. Sickly yellow, and green. Kinda of like 1970s kitchen motif.