Are you particular about what type or style of spoon you use when you dine?

I usually use a soup spoon for soups, stews and cereal. I use a teaspoon for coffee or for eating something like Jello, pudding or ice cream.

I never really gave this much thought. About the only time I don't use a soup spoon is when I'm having hot tea, mainly because the spoon is a bit too big and I have iced teaspoons for iced tea because they are longer and it's easier to stir the sugar into the iced tea with them.. I really don't care to use a teaspoon as a serving spoon, such as for mashed potatoes. It's easier to use a soup spoon for foods like that.

I'm not really particular about it but I do prefer to use a soup spoon for soup because it is easier to eat then.

I don't really mind using one spoon for everything, but I prefer a soup spoon with soup. A grapefruit spoon is also really handy when eating grapefruit.

other than a soup spoon for soup, i don't have any other preference.

There are so many different kinds of spoons. I didn't even think of grapefruit or ice tea!

I only like little spoons...the sets always come with big spoons, and little spoons, and I wont use the big ones

I have three different types/sizes of spoons that I like to use. I use regular small (tea)spoons for things like granola, cereal, yogurt, and various other things. I use a large (table)spoon for things like soups and stews (not a big fan of soup spoons, and I don't own any). I also use these for serving certain things, and for getting avocados out of their skins. And then I have these little Chilean spoons that are slightly paddle-shaped that I use for ice cream and other desserts that I need a spoon for.

I prefer a soup spoon !!!

Not really. A spoon is a spoon.

really you only need 2 spoons, soup and desert (for the most part) and as long as they dont look stupid.

I could narrow it down to two.

One size will work for me for pretty much anything, although generally I do prefer a certain spoon for desserts, my baby spoon..... it's so little and cute and makes me take smaller bites so the dessert lasts for longer. But a regular spoon works if my baby spoon is dirty.

One size...small.

You are the spoon choice guru!

How, pray tell, can a spoon look stupid? You mean a Spiderman spoon used for pudding instead of Mickey Mouse spoon?

I would have said I'm just odd!
It's amazing the variety of silverware options there are, though. There were pretty much just spoons and knives (one kind of each) until the Victorians came along with all their crazy hang-ups and decided there needed to be a special utensil for every kind of food item. God forbid you try to pick up the asparagus with the wrong kind of tongs, or worse yet with a dinner fork, or worse yet again with a fish fork.

No.....I meant like your eating a creme brulee and you eating it with a serving spoon.......... or drinking soup with a teaspoon............ kinda thing

I use the big spoon for everything. Whats the point in using a small spoon when you can eat a little faster with a big spoon? Unless your a child and the big spoon can not fit in your mouth. But if it fits.

I really don't pay attention o what kind of spoon people use. Do you?

I do have spoon preferences that are based on the size of the ladling bit, especially for spooning sugar into tea. With other spoons, I'm fussy about the handle, and I hate spoons with plastic handles.

A few select types...

Not really.......... unless its an example from above

When I was thinking about the survey, I was thinking of all the different spoons, forks and knives that may end up next to the plate on the dinner table. When I began eating at the fancier places, I was admonished for not using the "salad" fork before the "dinner" fork. As I tried all the different utensils, I realized that their purposes were sometimes necessary, so the used fork for the salad would be taken away and the clean fork could be used for dinner, etc for dessert. That makes alot of sense, rather than 'wiping' it clean on the napkin. Then I thought about all the different types of knives and I became overwhelmed far away from keeping the question simple enough. So I thought about all the spoons we use in day to day eating. Because of my mechanic background, I appreciate having the right tool for the job so to speak, and the different handles and spoon sizes do make a difference in the enjoyment of the meal. You are not odd, you are practical.

If the creme brulee was that good, and you didn't want to share, why wuldn't you use a serving spoon. Drinking soup with a teaspoon would look silly, and it would be tedious too.

> A few select types...

Good to hear that eliminates the "spork".

Yours and someones elses?

When the meal is really good, sometimes I ask for a shovel and pitchfork, it will fit.

> |> A few select types...
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> Good to hear that eliminates the "spork".
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Was it a choice?!?

Lol............ A serving spoon?......... Most of them that I have seen you could fit a whole creme brulee on a serving spoon......one mouthful......

Example from above?

Good thinking, why didn't I think of that!!?

Not for me. I think the devil invented those and mass marketed it to the fast food industry.

YUM!!!

That's why we're here.

Big ones and little ones.

I've heard of them but never seen any...

any will do me just fine!

Send me your address, if you still have my email and you shall see the torture we have endured.

Well, thanks!
I agree that it's practical to have several different utensils, although sometimes it's just overkill. But I guess most people today don't ever use all the crazy, obscure utensils that exist.

It is all about enjoying the meal. If you have to work harder than neccesary, or the meal is mangled because of improper spoon choices, I would think making a conscience choice wouldn't be overkill.

I don't eat with a spoon except for soup and then I prefer a soup spoon.

I don't think you reach overkill until there are more than three types of each utensil!

I don't honestly care. Anyway, I dislike using a spoon, I use fork as often as possible. I eat porridge with fork. Some puddings. Hell, I once ate ice cream with fork. That didn't work out too well.

Done!

If we arn't inviting anyone, I prefer the most practical and useful one, it's a "dinner operation" and not "etiquette"!!!

My mother is from England. I was raised to exercise English Table Manners, as if "one day [I] might find myself dining with the Queen... you never, ever know."

And I'd want to dine with the richest, stingiest cow in the world who does NOT charge herself tax (and NEVER has and most likely NEVER will) because... ???????? Now I'm just a freak about silverware and just about have a stroke when presented with a "spork" (spoon-fork popularly used by establishments like KFC/Taco Bell). *shudder*

i refuse to eat with anything other than a big old wooden spoon

That is awesome. Especially with porridge!

I definitely have favourite spoons for different things.

Oh, a Caddy Spoon...do you collect too? I would love to talk to you about them.

I do not collect them, I merely use them as tools. And I do not know what a caddy spoon is, don't know what to say about those.

Yay! These are a few of my favorite things...(I was humming when I typed that)

Oh, they are beautiful antique silver Kings pattern (caddy) spoons dated from the 1800's made in London. So elegant but hardly something you would use every day, very rare. Tools?

I never thought about it.

Tools to dine with. The proper tool is as important as the plate it goes on. I take my tools very seriously.

I suppose you would consider them tools, in the most barbaric unsophisticated way. Interesting take on spoons.

"Barbaric unsophisticated"?! You abviously are not aware of whom you are speaking to.

Device for making material changes on other objects, as by cutting, shearing, striking, rubbing, grinding, squeezing, measuring, or other process.

A hand tool is a small manual instrument traditionally operated by the muscular strength of the user; Tools are the main means by which human beings control and manipulate their physical environment.

1 a : a handheld device that aids in accomplishing a task b
2 a : something (as an instrument or apparatus) used in performing an operation or necessary in the practice of a vocation or profession

Main Entry: 1spoon
Pronunciation: 'spün
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English spOn splinter, chip; akin to Old High German spAn splinter, chip
1 : an eating or cooking implement consisting of a small shallow bowl with a relatively long handle

NOUN:

A utensil consisting of a small, shallow bowl on a handle, used in preparing, serving, or eating food.

Sounds like a tool to me and I am not barbaric, maybe I have been around a little more.Thank you for your opinion.

> A few select types...

Remember which select types you prefer?

Whom am I speaking to?

Who are you?

Hmm, I still think calling spoons tools is very inappropriate in the company I keep, your tribe must be different.

Kate...what is your first name?

Donna

Tribe??? Are you a princess or some other type of royalty?

I sympathize with the alcohol abuse within your race but nothing is really done for them, I wish they could all be sent somewhere else where they can drink in peace.

No

Must I be blunt? I am assuming you are of Indian origin and in your 'culture' you freely refer to white peoples spoons as tools. I am not trying to insult you. please, correct me if you are wrong. more should be done for your people.

I like teaspoons for my tea, soup spoons for my soup but I have a thing for demi-tasse spoons and and ice-cream spoons for desserts. I have measuring spoons but I don't really need them and wooden spoons are my favourite for cooking...

More?

That is awesome answer. Only if there is more...

> That is awesome answer. Only if there is more...

Well I do have some really nice, silver serving spoons and a couple of silver sugar spoons, Oh! And I got a jam spoon from an SC user as a gift too and the home made jam!! (lilly333)

I am pretty particular about my spoons. The food tastes better I don't know why.

Their like wine glasses...

> Their like wine glasses...


Best when full?

That and some wines just taste better in the proper glass!

OMG! Did I write "their" instead of "They're"??!? My bad!
*whacks ruler over fingers*

Can we just spell phonetically? Do we have that capability? I just figured you were sampling wines in different glasses to see which one tasted better. Whack your fingers any more and you won't be able to type anymore.

OUCH!! slicI( dll (@K sop

Now, now, now... Kate. Donna. You're BOTH pretty! Okay!?!??!?! BOTH of you are pretty!!! No one is prettier than another in here... with the exception of me, but that goes without saying. Hehehehehe...

Can't we all just get along???

I am a charter member of the "Learn to Get Along, Be Home By Eleven" Club and a card carrying member of the Getalong Club. You have walked into the middle of a conversation and did not observe the two minute rule. (One of the getalong clubs rules)
Thank you.

I, too, am a member.. but not only a member, I am (dramatic pause * dun - dun - dunnnnn) the President... of the Learn to Get Along, Be Home By Eleven Club. And... you are correct, the two minute rule was not observed, because as the President of the LGABHBE Club it does not apply to me. Now you get along with everyone CloudHugger, DAMNYOU!!! YOU LOVE EVERYONE OR ELSE!!!! Ya' HEAR ME?!?!?!!? GET ALONG! Don't make me get along with you... Hehehe.

What chapter are you from? Which level did you achieve before becoming president???

I like just the small teaspoon for everything that requires a spoon, even soup.

Serving spoons are a different matter and depend on the dish.

I prefer a soup spoon for soups and stews, but a teaspoon works best for desserts such as puddings, ice cream, etc., and for stirring hot drinks like tea and coffee.

I love soup spoons. I detest plastic utensils.

I'm from the San Francisco chapter. I reached level: DAMN-YOU'RE-NICE-AND-GET-ALONG-WITH-EVERYONE-WHILE-GETTING-HOME-BEFORE-THE-STREET-LIGHTS-COME-ON. Not an easy job, but someone's gotta do it.

Depends on what I'm eating & where I'm at. I mean, at home, I'll lick the spoon clean in my mouth to get ready for the next dish, but in a restaurant I want the proper utensils.

A soup spoon when I'm eating soup, just because it's a little easier to use. Otherwise, a standard teaspoon for anything other foods you would normally eat with a spoon. I'm flexible though. If I haven't got a soup spoon handy, a teaspoon works fine too.