Spoons

Spoons. © CooksInfo / 2013

Spoons have likely been part of a cook’s arsenal since mankind first learned how to carve.  The first spoons would have been made of bone or wood, with millennia passing before spoons made of metals became possible.

Now, no kitchen is complete without a plethora of spoons for every purpose both in the kitchen and on the table.

Spoons are used for measuring, combining, beating, stirring, straining, serving and eating.

Ice Cream Scoops

An Ice Cream Scoop is a half-bowl attached to a long handle used for serving ice cream, frozen yoghurt, gelato, and sorbet. The bowls come in different sizes. Small ones (1 inch / 2 1/2 cm) mean that you have to make more scoops to make up a serving...

Ladles

Ladle © Denzil GreenThe word "Ladle" can be used as a noun to indicate a kitchen implement, or it can be used as a verb, meaning to scoop up a liquid with a Ladle.A Ladle consists of a long handle that has at the end of it an attachment that looks like ...

Gravy Ladles

Gravy Ladles © Denzil GreenGravy Ladles are small ladles for use at the table, meant to rest in a gravy boat. They have largish bowls at the end of their handles: you scoop up some gravy from the gravy boat, and pour gravy from the bowl of the spoon ...

Wok Ladles

A Wok Ladle looks a bit like a spade for garden gnomes.It has a handle to which is attached a shovel that is wider at the top than at the bottom. Some are rounded instead with a very shallow "bowl" on them. Whether squarish or rounded, the bowl will be...

Mote Spoon

A Mote Spoon was a small slotted teaspoon to help with serving loose tea. It was used to fish out floating tea leaves from a cup. The spoons were about 6 inches (15 cm) long altogether. The bowls of the spoon had perforations in them, ones that were...

Pouring Spoons

Pouring Spoons aren't used for any of the normal purposes that a spoon is used for. It isn't even the bowl of the spoon that is used, but rather the back of it. That's because its purpose is not to scoop, but rather to break the flow of one liquid...

Pudding Sticks

Pudding Stick is a stirring tool. It's a round stick, flattened at the end you used to stir with, making it resemble a paddle. It is more useful than a spoon for scraping the bottom of a pot and preventing a pudding or porridge from burning, Early...

Slotted Spoons

Spoon with perforations © Denzil GreenSlotted Spoons are used to scoop food items out of a liquid, leaving the liquid behind. The slots can be 2 to 4 actual slots running side by side almost the length of the bowl of the spoon, or they can be perforations ...

Spurtles

A spurtle is a long, round, thick piece of carved wood specially designed for stirring porridge. It will be thicker at the handle end, which is usually carved in a way to make holding easier.

Wooden Spoons

Wooden Spoons © Denzil Green Wooden Spoons are large utility spoons for the kitchen made, usually, from a single piece of wood. The wood will always be hardwood. The back of the bowl of Wooden Spoons is thicker than that of metal or plastic spoons. ...