The present invention relates generally to the field of electrosurgery, more particularly to electrosurgical devices and methods that employ high frequency voltage to cut, ablate and/or coagulate tissue in conductive fluid and semi-dry environments, even more particularly to ablation electrodes designed for the bulk removal of tissue by vaporization as opposed to the simple cutting of tissue or coagulation of bleeding vessels. Further to a need in the art, the present invention provides bipolar ablators of simple construction.