New Teaspoon Advice Please

[Hugo a Gogo]

well said, I think that's something we can all agree on. And let us put those dark days of European conflict behind us and move on to a glorious future together, spoons in hand, cups held aloft, as brothers (and sisters of course) in spooning

[Blib]

Hugo a Gogo said:

well said, I think that's something we can all agree on. And let us put those dark days of European conflict behind us and move on to a glorious future together, spoons in hand, cups held aloft, as brothers (and sisters of course) in spooning

Weasel words, Hugo. Weasel words.

You sir are a damnable hypocrite! I shall just leave this part of your very first post on this thread here for all to stir on.

Hugo a Gogo said:

.... my Krupp Edelstahl Rührmeister Löffel 56.1 outperforms your poncy Italian spoon in every way and is a solid product of years of engineering development, tested to the highest Deutsches Kaffeeverband standards...

You make me sick to the stomach.

[Hugo a Gogo]

well obviously I wasn't including the bloody eyeties!

Anyway, how's your Krupp doing, and when are you bringing it back into the workshop for a fettling?

[Blib]

Wensd'y. Get the kettle on.

[Hugo a Gogo]

Blib said:

Pray consider the humble, everyday, utilitarian teaspoon. The workhorse of the tearoom.



This is our Krupp "Alltags Tees Rührer". It is involved in the making of forty or fifty cups of tea for me and Mrs Blib each day. It has done for nigh on 75 years now, the ATR having been formerly owned by my dear Grand Mama. Look carefully at the offside return flange. Years of stirring by predominantly left handed family members has leant it the patina normally seen on the nearside flange of non 'sinister' family stirrers. This makes it a rare spoon amongst spoons.

Many collectors forget that a humble house spoon can have as much of a history to it as even the most revered Schnable or Wigglesworth.

Does anyone else have any photos of their house spoon that they would like to share? I bet that there are many interesting stories just waiting to be told.

N.B. You can just see a drop of tea to one side of the spoon. Note the colour. Surely that can only be produced by a 75 year old spoon?

50 cups of tea a day for 75 years, I'd love to see the Gianelli that could manage that!

[Blib]

I wish you hadn't posted that, Hugo. Just after that photograph was taken we engaged a new under butler for the west wing tearoom.

The damn fool placed it in the dishwasher. Seventy five years of history gone.

[Hugo a Gogo]

I hope you fired them both (under butler and dishwasher)

[Blib]

IMO, this depends entirely on the oil. What are you thinking of using?

[Tallow]

I don't think you can go far wrong with a liberal treatment of Huntingley's Spoonex.

Of course you have to religiously follow the instructions to avoid any lasting damage (and do so in a well ventilated room, of course) but for my mind totally worth it for the results you get.

[rohrl]

Tallow said:

I don't think you can go far wrong with a liberal treatment of Huntingley's Spoonex.

Of course you have to religiously follow the instructions to avoid any lasting damage (and do so in a well ventilated room, of course) but for my mind totally worth it for the results you get.

What is this? 2012?

Morton's Organic New Zealand Cutlery Wax or GTFO.

[Tallow]

rohrl said:

What is this? 2012?

Morton's Organic New Zealand Cutlery Wax or GTFO.

Pffft. I think everyone knows that they're only de rigueur thanks to some highly questionable and fundamentally flawed research from the University of Christchurch.

Huntingley's might not have the flashy branding of Morton's, but by God, it works.

[Mark-C]

I’m feeling rather foolish now ... I have absolutely no idea what oil my spoonsman uses on the trusty Bristol 900 Aerostick that is my main weapon of choice for such matters.

I shall get the butler to ask my lead strainer to ask him and report back.

[Willy Nilly]

I use a liberal coat of Whitlocks Spoon Grease on mine, we all love a greasy spoon.

[Blib]

I'm surprised Hugo hasn't popped up with a suggestion to use Krupp's Scheinnenschweisserwasser. He must be ill. Or, in prison.

[Mark-C]

Blib said:

I'm surprised Hugo hasn't popped up with a suggestion to use Krupp's Scheinnenschweisserwasser. He must be ill. Or, in prison.

Surely no prison could hold him? Wouldn’t the Krupp dig a perfectly serviceable tunnel in no time at all?

[Willy Nilly]

Mark-C said:

Surely no prison could hold him? Wouldn’t the Krupp dig a perfectly serviceable tunnel in no time at all?

Speaking of which, what spoon was used to dig the hole in the cell wall in The Shawshank Redemption?

[Blib]

A sore point. Ruined the fim for me. Because, in the film, they used a standard Markovic 927e. Which any fule knows couldn't dig through brickwork.

Hollywood, eh? What are they like?

[Willy Nilly]

Blib said:

A sore point. Ruined the fim for me. Because, in the film, they used a standard Markovic 927e. Which any fule knows couldn't dig through brickwork.

Hollywood, eh? What are they like?

Artistic license I am afraid. The Markovic was a stunt spoon. Can anyone name the spoon that did the actual digging?

[Pints]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG5yFr3tKLQ

At 1.36 - how very dare he!

[Hugo a Gogo]

I don't know what film you saw, but I saw him using a rock hammer (which did inspire the G-Force Rockhammer range of extreme spoons that were briefly popular in the early noughties)

anyway, Krupp Löffel Öl is what I use, then a quick blast with the Fön and then wipe it off with my Gelbentstauberungsstoff

Edited by Hugo a Gogo on Monday 21st September 21:40