New Teaspoon Advice Please

New Teaspoon Advice Please

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Long Drax

744 posts

169 months

Monday 31st July 2017
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toastybase said:
Who saw the pistonheads article in 'Spoons weekly'?
Should be titled Spoons Weakly these days. I stopped my subscription after George Lamming was promoted to the magazine's Chief Asia Editor role. The guy only just scraped his 1978 metallurgy HND for heaven's sake. And why was Lars H.J. Olsen moved to the Convex Views page? Must be pretty humiliating for the poor chap.

Felters

618 posts

198 months

Monday 31st July 2017
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AstonZagato said:
I wouldn't want to spread salacious gossip but "Dear old Wyndham" wasn't exactly "the marrying type" if you know what I mean. At least not from what I have heard from the apprentices who served under him.

However, that said, he was a fine cuttler and a very skillful stirrer, with a fine record in national competitions. A great man.


Edited by AstonZagato on Monday 31st July 22:49
Still think this once noble thread is heading for extinction.. How long before the kiss of death is given by someone recommending Franklin Mint?


Long Drax

744 posts

169 months

Monday 31st July 2017
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AstonZagato said:
I wouldn't want to spread salacious gossip but "Dear old Wyndham" wasn't exactly "the marrying type" if you know what I mean. At least not from what I have heard from the apprentices who served under him.

However, that said, he was a fine cuttler and a very skillful stirrer, with a fine record in national competitions. A great man.


Edited by AstonZagato on Monday 31st July 22:49
He told my cousin that he was "asexual"?

Blib

43,795 posts

196 months

Tuesday 1st August 2017
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Felters said:
Still think this once noble thread is heading for extinction.. How long before the kiss of death is given by someone recommending Franklin Mint?
Ok, I'll bite. What's so wrong if people get into our wonderful hobby through a Franklin spoon? Yes, yes, theyre overpriced tat. Hiwever, they're also safe, durable and unlikely to hurt even the most inexperienced of stirrers.

Personally, I'd far rather see a beginner wield a Franklin, Schnabel replica than the real thing.

toastybase

2,220 posts

207 months

Tuesday 1st August 2017
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Long Drax said:
toastybase said:
Who saw the pistonheads article in 'Spoons weekly'?
Should be titled Spoons Weakly these days. I stopped my subscription after George Lamming was promoted to the magazine's Chief Asia Editor role. The guy only just scraped his 1978 metallurgy HND for heaven's sake. And why was Lars H.J. Olsen moved to the Convex Views page? Must be pretty humiliating for the poor chap.
Couldn't have put it better myself!

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 1st August 2017
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toastybase said:
Long Drax said:
toastybase said:
Who saw the pistonheads article in 'Spoons weekly'?
Should be titled Spoons Weakly these days. I stopped my subscription after George Lamming was promoted to the magazine's Chief Asia Editor role. The guy only just scraped his 1978 metallurgy HND for heaven's sake. And why was Lars H.J. Olsen moved to the Convex Views page? Must be pretty humiliating for the poor chap.
Couldn't have put it better myself!
Bloody tossers.

They are so biased towards Horsch's overpriced metal sticks. How dare they advertise it as a teaspoon? Overpriced garbage, only fit for the noveau riche wannabe, money can't buy class these days. There's a certain delicacy in owning a teaspoon; in fact it is a privilege to be blessed with owning such a precious work of art.... they shouldn't fall in to the hands of the wrong un's

LeadFarmer

7,411 posts

130 months

Tuesday 1st August 2017
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Yesterday, without realising, I used a dessert spoon to stir my cup of tea. How I laughed when I realised my mistake. But to my astonishment it was much more effective at stirring my beverage, requiring less stirring to achieve the same results of a teaspoon.

I intend to write to the teaspoon ombudsman to alert him/her of this revelation.

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 1st August 2017
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LeadFarmer said:
Yesterday, without realising, I used a dessert spoon to stir my cup of tea. How I laughed when I realised my mistake. But to my astonishment it was much more effective at stirring my beverage, requiring less stirring to achieve the same results of a teaspoon.

I intend to write to the teaspoon ombudsman to alert him/her of this revelation.
That's teaspoon blasphemy!
How can you blatantly betray such a cult?

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 1st August 2017
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LeadFarmer said:
Yesterday, without realising, I used a dessert spoon to stir my cup of tea. How I laughed when I realised my mistake. But to my astonishment it was much more effective at stirring my beverage, requiring less stirring to achieve the same results of a teaspoon.

I intend to write to the teaspoon ombudsman to alert him/her of this revelation.
The thin end of the wedge. Efficiency does not equal quality. I'd rather tire myself wielding a knackered Retalo than use a dessert spoon and whip up an easy wrist-nado.

glenrobbo

35,080 posts

149 months

Tuesday 1st August 2017
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OpulentBob said:
By far my favourite thread on here. I get very excited when I see there have been new posts.
He does! wink


mcbook

1,384 posts

174 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2017
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LeadFarmer said:
Yesterday, without realising, I used a dessert spoon to stir my cup of tea. How I laughed when I realised my mistake. But to my astonishment it was much more effective at stirring my beverage, requiring less stirring to achieve the same results of a teaspoon.

I intend to write to the teaspoon ombudsman to alert him/her of this revelation.
Were you drinking your tea from a bowl? I find it hard to believe that you were able to casually stir a cup of tea with a dessert spoon without either some serious wrist contortion or severe damage to the internals of the cup.

Alternatively, you could have been [using] a big mug. The less said about that, the better.

The only implement even remotely suitable for stirring tea in a china cup is the humble tea spoon. Maybe you should put some checks in place so that you don't make the same mistake again. Can I suggest having a dedicated Tea Cupboard in which only equipment related to tea drinking is stored? And, of course, please immediately remove all tea spoons from your general cutlery drawer.

If you haven't already written to the ombudsman, I wouldn't bother. Perry Withenshawe, who has been in charge of operations there for more than three years, is on a mission to increase efficiency by reducing time spent on spurious enquiries. To be blunt, I don't think they'll even reply.

Doofus

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25,732 posts

172 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2017
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OpulentBob said:
55palfers said:
alorotom said:
Not being a spoon aficionado myself I do struggle in here with what's piss take and what's legit lol
I humbly suggest this declares the thread a success
By far my favourite thread on here. I get very excited when I see there have been new posts.
It gives me a warm feeling to know that I was in part responsible for bringing this hobby to a wider audience. It shows what can be achieved when you vent your spleen with an angry rant.

NDA

21,490 posts

224 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2017
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The Crack Fox said:
a decorative lid showing immigrants swimming the channel, goaded on by Cherie Blair, against a backdrop of plummeting house prices, and cancer.
Highly likely to be a collectors item given the subject matter that twists between hope and despair. A jaunty theme that causes the viewer to pause for thought before being plunged into an abstract maelstrom of anxiety and utter desperation.

Cheap tat to you now - but in 200 years?

Long Drax

744 posts

169 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2017
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Doofus said:
It gives me a warm feeling to know that I was in part responsible for bringing this hobby to a wider audience. It shows what can be achieved when you vent your spleen with an angry rant.
Tom Wattacantt was insinuating on his Aunty's Antiques blog the other day that you pilfered his hobby idea after eavesdropping him at the Brown Hatter's bar. What a nerve! Did you read it?



Mark-C

5,010 posts

204 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2017
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Hugo a Gogo said:
Krupp 4 life
My favourite Iggy Pop song ...

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2017
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Mark-C said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
Krupp 4 life
My favourite Iggy Pop song ...
Big Spooner, is Iggy. Him and Floella Benjamin.

55palfers

5,893 posts

163 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2017
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The Crack Fox said:
Aaaah, the great Zbynek Kráslavský. Last seen labouring in a plastic stirrer factory. A sad fate.
If I may swing the debate back to the Master Kráslavský for a moment.

I was fortunate to acquire a fine pair of Austrian spoons from around 1863.

The second photo shows a hallmark and the makers name "WK"

I am hoping against hope here, but is it at all possible these spoons are the (rare) work of Kráslavský's somewhat less productive older brother Wolfric?

The overall quality of his early work was without compare, but some say he lost his way when he became embroiled in the hiatus of the struggle for the self-determination of Bohemia




Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Thursday 3rd August 2017
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Mark-C said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
Krupp 4 life
My favourite Iggy Pop song ...
thought it was Soul II Soul

Krupp 4 life, Krupp 4 reality..

Jazzy Tea

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 3rd August 2017
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55palfers said:
I was fortunate to acquire a fine pair of Austrian spoons from around 1863.
yikes

They look 100 years older than that!

55palfers

5,893 posts

163 months