COOKING UTENSIL

The present invention relates, in one aspect, to a cooking utensil including a functional member configured to engage a food item and a handle member extending from the functional member for gripping the utensil and for moving the functional member. The functional member includes a blade having a pair of opposite surfaces meeting at a pair of opposite lateral edges, one of the lateral edges being sharpened to form a cutting edge and the other one of the lateral edges including prongs and at least one of the planar surfaces having one or more recesses that do not pass entirely through the blade. In a preferred form, the one or more recesses include one or more concave depressions in the at least one of the planar surfaces. The present invention relates, in another aspect, to a cooking utensil including a functional member configured to engage a food item and a handle member extending from the functional portion for gripping the utensil and for moving the functional portion wherein a length by which the handle member extends from the functional portion is adjustable. In one embodiment the cooking utensil is a spatula and in another embodiment a pair of tongs.