New Teaspoon Advice Please
Discussion
The good mug, like the so beautiful female form benefits from being bottom heavy. It's all very well having a tall form with a slender top, but broader round the base with a firm handle gives the holder more confidence in the stiring with less risk of a deluge when sipping from said vessel.
let me ask the experts a tricky one:
Which spoons are optimized for:
Orange Pekoe
Lapsang Souchon
Early Grey
Solid aged chinese tea pucks?
There is a significant difference in viscosity, PH patterns, tannin and other factors , whereas to date it would appear that the primary purpose of a teaspoon has been lost in the erudite discussion. Just as, for instance a Bordeaux glass is entirely different from one for Chardonnay, we need to be a little more careful if being too generic. Does anyone have a master spoon-to-tea matching chart?…there must be one, shirley…...
Which spoons are optimized for:
Orange Pekoe
Lapsang Souchon
Early Grey
Solid aged chinese tea pucks?
There is a significant difference in viscosity, PH patterns, tannin and other factors , whereas to date it would appear that the primary purpose of a teaspoon has been lost in the erudite discussion. Just as, for instance a Bordeaux glass is entirely different from one for Chardonnay, we need to be a little more careful if being too generic. Does anyone have a master spoon-to-tea matching chart?…there must be one, shirley…...
Willy Nilly said:
It's nice of the cyclists to be providing the warm act for The Stir De France this year. Like many I didn't realize the French took stirring so seriously. Anyone going?
I feel it's lost some of it's authenticity now that some of the stages of the Stir De France are being held in England.I wonder who will win the coveted yellow tea cosy this year?
Hugo a Gogo said:
Blib said:
Pints said:
There's a tragic story behind that little film.As many on here will know, Barnaby Carder, "Barn the Spoon", was once one of Britain's foremost teenage spoonists. Few who saw him at Wakefield 2001, when he out flanged Toshiro Nagagumi in three mugs, will ever forget his virtuoso performance that wet and windy day.
However, it all went very wrong when, while in a barometric chamber, in an effort to break the high altitude spm record, he was struck by a freak electromagnetic pulse generated by a malfunction, which immediately rendered him super-magnetic. He cannot touch a teaspoon now without full emergency service back up. He was once magnetically attached to a Krupp Vorsheidt 992a for over 73 hours. He got away with his life by the skin of his teeth. But, lost two fingers.
Now, all that he can do to rekindle memories of times past is to whittle away at wooden spoons.
A terrible loss.
Puts spooning into perspective, and should make you stop and think when you pick up even your daily stirrer.
Thank you, both.
k is this thread 96 pages long. 
Pique said:
Anyone up for a convoy to the International Legends of Spooning Exhibition? I want to get there early for the Carl-Heinze Flufferköck display on the Tuesday. Once in a lifetime show I'm told.
With good reason - the flanges on Flufferköcks are notorious for being of very poor quality. Sure, they can just about cope with weak-wristed stirring in the stuff that passes for water in his homeland, but they fall apart in anything approaching a decent cup of Lady Grey.Edited by marshalla on Saturday 5th July 23:00
DanielSan said:
And mentioning ladles really starts to stir things up....
Well, this brings up the often avoided topic. When calling a Lady, should a Gentlemen offer to stir a Lady's tea?
Should he present his own spoon?
Should he use the spoon presented in front of him?
Should he wait for the Lady to stir his tea?
And for the classicists among you, what is the perfect spoon for presenting to the Lady on a first call?
It is a minefield - and enquiring minds do need to know.
Troubleatmill said:
DanielSan said:
And mentioning ladles really starts to stir things up....
Well, this brings up the often avoided topic. When calling a Lady, should a Gentlemen offer to stir a Lady's tea?
Should he present his own spoon?
Should he use the spoon presented in front of him?
Should he wait for the Lady to stir his tea?
And for the classicists among you, what is the perfect spoon for presenting to the Lady on a first call?
It is a minefield - and enquiring minds do need to know.
I'm not really sure how we got them to fall for it the first time. Distracted them with some pretty shoes or some such I imagine.
As for a gift on a first call: a spoon? Why not propose marriage as well? Totally inappropriate.
Although if you are going to do it why not over-do it and present them a double-bowler handle first at groin height?
Also I suspect you saw "ladles" and read "ladies". Since it's diagnosis in the 1970's Spoonlexia has been found to affect up to 30% of the population to some degree ot other.
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