I wonder if your home is anything like ours? This is just a small selection of our wooden spoons, there are others in drawers and pots all over the place!
Guess which is the only one I ever use. Yes, you're right; that grotty little well-worn job on the lower right. It is perfect for everything I do, and I'd hate to loose it. I never use any other. Just look how worn-away it is from all that stirring!
I also have my mother's 'Scotch hands', several sets of salad servers, an olive scoop, and an assortment of unknown wooden objects. As with all such things; you never know when they might be needed!!
How many do you have lurking at the bottom of your kitchen drawers?
Dozens. F makes them then never sells them or gives them away. She gets attached to the wood in the process we suspect. Yours on the other hand look like they have been handled and enjoyed as spoons.
ReplyDeleteI don't think all of them have been used; some were bought at boot sales. Goodness knows why!
DeleteI am a minimalist and my house is small and yet I have too many things here.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid we are the opposite. It's not that we have too much stuff, it's just that this house is far too small.
DeleteWe had a set of five wooden spoons but after just checking there is one at the bottom of the drawer with other utensils piled on top of it. I think the rest broke over time. We use a silicon spoon now.
ReplyDeleteA visitor recently said, our house was like being 'inside a museum'. I think she was right.
DeleteI love wooden spoons! Funny how attached we get to simple household objects like that!
ReplyDeleteMy grotty one in the foreground is like an old friend.
DeleteI have a favourite wooden spoon that I tend to use all the time. Paul has just asked me if he can claim one of my wooden spoons for his potting shed!
ReplyDeleteDoes he make big bowls of Porridge out there?
DeleteBig bowls of compost! (He makes the porridge in the kitchen.)
DeleteI thought for a moment that he might have adopted the 3 Bears.
DeleteNice, if you want to treble their value call them treen.
ReplyDeleteDoes treen burn as well as wood?
DeleteI have two regulars on the go one for sweet/porridge and one for onions/curry. Along with other kitcheny things they go on holiday with me to self catering places.
ReplyDeleteI'd not thought of my favourite spoon being international, but now that you mention it....
DeleteI have one wooden spoon, but I don't use it as I don't think the dishwasher would do it any favours!
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't dream of letting my spoon anywhere near the machine... I always wash it by hand.
DeleteMy gran would serve us bowls of cawl which we would eat with wooden spoons. Over the years these spoons had worn down, so the smallest spoon went to the smallest person present! Kept in a wall-hanging rack, I realised the other day that such spoons and their rack would now be worth a small fortune. I wonder where they are?
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've ever eaten with a wooden spoon, but I do occasionally eat from a wooden plate. Yes, I expect your Gran's spoons etc would be worth a lot these days.
DeleteOh I think that large one is a delight
ReplyDeleteI think it's a rice-serving spoon, it was given to us by a Zen-Buddhist friend.
DeleteWe only have ten in an earthenware jar right next to the hob. Grab as necessary. No need to go rooting in a drawer for weapons of mass destruction.
ReplyDeleteHow many of the 10 are actually used? I suspect not all!
DeleteYou are like the Sherlock Holmes of the wooden spoon universe. There's one particularly nice bamboo spoon with a large and deep bowl that seems to be in pristine condition. We must have had it five years or more.
DeleteLike you I have an assortment of spoons and such like - and I keep them in a terra cotta pot by the stove - the pot labelled 'Kitchen Things'
ReplyDeleteA dedicated pot is a good idea. I think I may try to combine all ours in one spot.
DeleteFirst time commenting...I have 3 or 4. What strikes me about most of your spoons is how short the handles look. Don´t your fingers get burnt?
ReplyDeletePerhaps you have deeper cooking pots than I do. The handles seem long enough to me. I'd never thought about it.
DeleteK loves wooden spoons and has three or four which he uses, first found, first used. I dislike wooden spoons . I have an IKEA spoon made from some sort of 'plastic' that's not plastic or it would have melted by now. Cooking is just not the same without it.
ReplyDeleteTwice I've emptied the 'non cutlery' drawer and placed half its contents in a bag and hidden the bag. I aren't throw the darn stuff out just in case someone suddenly has a whim for a bone handled spatula yellow with age and a wobbly handle or one of the dozens of similar 'gadgets'. Our kids will have the joy of finding them one day and either tipping them out or donating them to a museum
I know exactly what you mean. That broken bit of wood with the flat end, that has an unknown usage, will be donated to the grandkids! And they should be extremely grateful.
DeleteOh, yes, we have quite the collection! I have certain ones I use for certain things. My favorite one was scorched and my husband cut that part off, and now it's too short :-(
ReplyDeleteMy favourite has been burned away between the bowl and the handle (I think you can just see this in the photo), and I'm wondering if one day it will snap! I do hope not.
DeleteIn 2019 I refitted the kitchen and had a big clear out. I have about 8 wooden spoons. I use two. Why do I keep the others? I have no idea.
ReplyDeleteFar too much junk in this house. Everything gets hidden rather than thrown out!
DeleteWe have a couple of dippers made by a tin smith uncle and a brass pail by the same uncle that we used to transport ashes from the stove to the ash pile.
ReplyDeleteIt's always nice to have hand-made things; especially if they've been made by family or friends.
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