New Teaspoon Advice Please
Discussion
Shakermaker said:
A notice has gone up in the kitcenette areas at work advising of a Teaspoon amnesty. Supposedly, a hundred or so new teaspoons were purchashed just before Christmas, but already, we are down to just a bare few as people hang on to them and keep them in their desks for eating their yoghurt or cereal, or whatever they are choosing to eat, but don't then return the spoon to go in the dishwasher at the end of the day.
what we need, is a selection of teaspoons that are suitable only for making hot beverages, but are perhaps impactical to use for eating with. Suggestions?
It might be going too far, but I think the Health and Safety concerns would be assuaged by a notice to combatants, posted near the dishwasher. Known more prosaically by its codename "Grapefruit Spoon", the Mondragón Spitzenstock has an excellent defensive serration to the bowl, which can also be used to help the dissolution of less fine sugar granules. This pair of 1896 Spitzenstocks reflect their multi-conflict usage, but you might be able to find a more modern Abrams set, if you need a significant amount, and can generate an End User Certificate.what we need, is a selection of teaspoons that are suitable only for making hot beverages, but are perhaps impactical to use for eating with. Suggestions?
Shakermaker said:
A notice has gone up in the kitcenette areas at work advising of a Teaspoon amnesty. Supposedly, a hundred or so new teaspoons were purchashed just before Christmas, but already, we are down to just a bare few as people hang on to them and keep them in their desks for eating their yoghurt or cereal, or whatever they are choosing to eat, but don't then return the spoon to go in the dishwasher at the end of the day.
what we need, is a selection of teaspoons that are suitable only for making hot beverages, but are perhaps impactical to use for eating with. Suggestions?
Wooden stirrer sticks a la Costa etc... that's what is used at a couple of the buildings I frequentwhat we need, is a selection of teaspoons that are suitable only for making hot beverages, but are perhaps impactical to use for eating with. Suggestions?
New to the teaspoon market - and fully appreciate that I'm off at a tangent here - but a recent bequest from an Aunt is mainly composed of assorted jam spoons. Many are "crested" and I am very concerned by the "Salcombe 1957". The under gusset supporting the main load bearing areas is badly worn and in need of restoration. Marcello and Piazolla would be an obvious choice but their work is geared to the American market and to my eye always seems over restored. Any suggestions?
Felters said:
New to the teaspoon market - and fully appreciate that I'm off at a tangent here - but a recent bequest from an Aunt is mainly composed of assorted jam spoons. Many are "crested" and I am very concerned by the "Salcombe 1957". The under gusset supporting the main load bearing areas is badly worn and in need of restoration. Marcello and Piazolla would be an obvious choice but their work is geared to the American market and to my eye always seems over restored. Any suggestions?
Classic "Triggers' Broom" quandary.Take the handle off a less than exciting makeweight from your inheritance and effect repair.
The classic car restoration mob have been bolting a VIN plate from a 1950's heap onto a recreation chassis for years.
Felters said:
New to the teaspoon market - and fully appreciate that I'm off at a tangent here - but a recent bequest from an Aunt is mainly composed of assorted jam spoons. Many are "crested" and I am very concerned by the "Salcombe 1957". The under gusset supporting the main load bearing areas is badly worn and in need of restoration. Marcello and Piazolla would be an obvious choice but their work is geared to the American market and to my eye always seems over restored. Any suggestions?
Valsamis. On Cooper St, W5. He doesn't show up on Google but he's there. As someone at Szpiegelman's recent market said to me, "He is the Ollivander of the spooning elite". He will quote high but come in under, so don't panic when you see his beautifully hand-written quote. alorotom said:
Shakermaker said:
A notice has gone up in the kitcenette areas at work advising of a Teaspoon amnesty. Supposedly, a hundred or so new teaspoons were purchashed just before Christmas, but already, we are down to just a bare few as people hang on to them and keep them in their desks for eating their yoghurt or cereal, or whatever they are choosing to eat, but don't then return the spoon to go in the dishwasher at the end of the day.
what we need, is a selection of teaspoons that are suitable only for making hot beverages, but are perhaps impactical to use for eating with. Suggestions?
Wooden stirrer sticks a la Costa etc... that's what is used at a couple of the buildings I frequentwhat we need, is a selection of teaspoons that are suitable only for making hot beverages, but are perhaps impactical to use for eating with. Suggestions?
OpulentBob said:
Felters said:
New to the teaspoon market - and fully appreciate that I'm off at a tangent here - but a recent bequest from an Aunt is mainly composed of assorted jam spoons. Many are "crested" and I am very concerned by the "Salcombe 1957". The under gusset supporting the main load bearing areas is badly worn and in need of restoration. Marcello and Piazolla would be an obvious choice but their work is geared to the American market and to my eye always seems over restored. Any suggestions?
Valsamis. On Cooper St, W5. He doesn't show up on Google but he's there. As someone at Szpiegelman's recent market said to me, "He is the Ollivander of the spooning elite". He will quote high but come in under, so don't panic when you see his beautifully hand-written quote. My grandad met him on a trip to the big smoke in 1962, my grandad was a spoon virgin at the time having been brought up as the son of a pit worker ooop Norf he'd never alctually held a spoon. It seems totally alien to even think of it in our modern enlightened times!
So there was my grandad, a complete sooon novice, taking his first steps in Spoon fancying and his first purchase was a Valsamis restored 1929 (March dated) French magnesium crested 5.1" edition.
I think he paid a fair price for it at the time but it got sold in 1979 to pay for a house (!!)
I've seen it change hands a few times since and it's fair to say that my grandad should have kept the spoon and lived in the room cupboard st the school for a couple more years.
Anyway, I digress. The chap is a genius, he's recently done some work for me, I'm not showing it off just yet
Valsamis!!!! Of course - showing my inexperience here. There were some supporting service bills from him in the american oak cabinet that my aunt had made to house the collection. Apparently Valsamis (known to his inner circle as "Squiffy" according to Auntie) was so excited by the workmanship involved in the cabinet that he collapsed on top of her. According to uncle Dickie she had to pull him off on the shop floor. I'd have loved to have been there...
OpulentBob said:
Valsamis. On Cooper St, W5. He doesn't show up on Google but he's there. As someone at Szpiegelman's recent market said to me, "He is the Ollivander of the spooning elite". He will quote high but come in under, so don't panic when you see his beautifully hand-written quote.
Pints said:
dibbers006 said:
Scales?
Absolutely. And it certainly sounds like Shaker is suggesting he uses the same spoon for decanting the sugar as he does for stirring. What sort of savagery are we potentially dealing with here!?alorotom said:
Wooden stirrer sticks a la Costa etc... that's what is used at a couple of the buildings I frequent
All that will happen if you do this is they will nick two of the wooded stirrers and use them as mini chopsticks to eat their sushi. Crafty b
ds these spoon thieves. Firing squads in the car park is the only language they understand.I've just read a disturbing editorial from the latest "Cutlers Periodical" due out in early March.
And yes, I know that most of us dismiss it as being rather too noveau-riche for the true Teaspoon afficionado, especially given their seemingly devout love for such interlopers as soup spoons, and butter knives. However, like so many, those who shout loudest have their voices heard, and I fear that Cutlers' latest release might have some serious consequences for the rest of us.
I can't link to it on here as its a watermarked copy, but to paraphrase the salient details
"we believe that those people with any sense of social awareness and the and ethical mind, should be moved to stop using the term "teaspoon" because it promotes the idea of poverty, given the terrible conditions at most of the worlds major tea plantations and the poverty the workers live and work in, scraping by just so that those of us in our ivory towers can enjoy our Earl Grey on our morning commute, the teaspoon is the epitome of the symbol of their oppression and colonial past which is no longer welcome in the modern world. Henceforth, CP will be using the newly accepted term amongst many industry experts of "beverage spoon" moving forward, and any recipes that we link to in our sister publications will move to the abbreviation of bvsp" in place of "tsp" in a phased transition from May 2017"
I am feeling outraged by this. Justifiably so, I hope, as many of you will be. The word teaspoon has long since surpassed any real relation to actual tea, and especially since CP had that 2-part special edition on actual tea strainers and infusers, entirely negating the need for any spoon at all.
I believe that investigation will find that this has something to do with one of CPs largest advertisers being part of the Coffee World chain - they can't yet get us to accept the term "coffeespoon" but I can see this as an early part of their agenda.
And yes, I know that most of us dismiss it as being rather too noveau-riche for the true Teaspoon afficionado, especially given their seemingly devout love for such interlopers as soup spoons, and butter knives. However, like so many, those who shout loudest have their voices heard, and I fear that Cutlers' latest release might have some serious consequences for the rest of us.
I can't link to it on here as its a watermarked copy, but to paraphrase the salient details
"we believe that those people with any sense of social awareness and the and ethical mind, should be moved to stop using the term "teaspoon" because it promotes the idea of poverty, given the terrible conditions at most of the worlds major tea plantations and the poverty the workers live and work in, scraping by just so that those of us in our ivory towers can enjoy our Earl Grey on our morning commute, the teaspoon is the epitome of the symbol of their oppression and colonial past which is no longer welcome in the modern world. Henceforth, CP will be using the newly accepted term amongst many industry experts of "beverage spoon" moving forward, and any recipes that we link to in our sister publications will move to the abbreviation of bvsp" in place of "tsp" in a phased transition from May 2017"
I am feeling outraged by this. Justifiably so, I hope, as many of you will be. The word teaspoon has long since surpassed any real relation to actual tea, and especially since CP had that 2-part special edition on actual tea strainers and infusers, entirely negating the need for any spoon at all.
I believe that investigation will find that this has something to do with one of CPs largest advertisers being part of the Coffee World chain - they can't yet get us to accept the term "coffeespoon" but I can see this as an early part of their agenda.
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