I don’t know about unconventional but I use the absolute heck out of my half width spatula, the skinny one.

Also got a silicone fish spatula and that thing rocks. I thought it would be too bendy to work, and I don’t have any nonstick pans (cast iron all day every day and one steel pan we call the stick pan, sometimes you want fond) so usually use metal but the edge on this thing is knife sharp and it squeezes under fried eggs like nothing else.

I really want a stovetop milk steamer. Sure would use it every day.