Classic Scraper

Have you been doing a lot of canning this year? Perhaps you've mastered the best tasting salsa, ever! Or maybe, you're trying your hand at all sorts of varieties of jams? With the beautiful summer we've had, maybe you've added different canned fruits or vegetables to your pantry? If you are really something, you've done all of these, all in one day, and you have my upmost respect and admiration!
A couple of weeks ago, I made my first batch of raspberry jam. My aunt gifted me with a couple of buckets of raspberries and I followed a simple recipe of raspberries, sugar and lemon juice and I got a few small jars of rich, dark, sweet raspberry jam. As it cooked on the stove, I used one of my most favorite Pampered Chef products: the Mix 'N Scraper. I have most of the family of Classic Scrapers, and I love every one. I kept the Mix 'N Scraper in the hot, rapidly boiling mixture of raspberries for the whole time it was cooking. When I was done the jam, my Mix 'N Scraper looked anything but the brilliant white it started off as. In fact, it was stained a dark red color, it was hot and sticky and I remember scolding myself, saying, "What were you thinking to leave that scraper in raspberries the whole time? That wasn't very smart!" I thought for sure that my Mix 'N Scraper would forever bear the marks of my yummy raspberry jam. I plopped it in a sink of hot, soapy water and began cleaning up the rest of my kitchen. When I returned to my Mix 'N Scraper a few minutes later, I lifted it out of the soapy water and I had this result (see right). I was more than pleased to see that with no scrubbing required, no elbow grease needed, my Mix 'N Scraper came up squeaky clean and brilliantly white once again.
As I said, the Classic Scraper family comes in three sizes: the Mix 'N Scraper, the Small Mix 'N Scraper, and the Mini Mix 'N Scraper, not to mention the Skinny and Classic Scrapers. In my kitchen, I have three different sizes and use them pretty much on a daily basis. The heavy-duty heads are fused directly to the handles, so when mixing thick cookie batter or scraping the bowl while making bread, the head of the scraper won't get stuck in your dough. They are firm enough to cut through the thickest recipes, but flexible enough to scrape every last morsel out of the bowl. Plus, they are indented, making for a perfect and convenient spoon, built right in. They won't crack, burn, melt or stain, and they are heat resistant to 650 degrees F, perfect for all of your canning and cooking needs.