Wooden Spoon

[greyhammer90]

We use a wooden one for fruits and vegetable and a glass one for all meats. You are right, the wooden one will carry bacteria.


EDIT: Great thread Wooly

Actually the wood one is cleaner. The pores in the wood actually serve to kill off bacteria. It's not intuitive, but it's actually cleaner to use wood blocks when doing raw meat.

EDIT: And GLASS? I weep for your kitchen knives.

 

[ACamp1900]

Acamp told me that metal spoons make your pico taste like a dirty penny.

Actually some Mexicans said that, not NDinLA, some other ones...

besides, sucking on a dirty penny will help you pass a breathalyzer, NDinLA DID tell me that one...

 

[NDdomer2]

Actually the wood one is cleaner. The pores in the wood actually serve to kill off bacteria. It's not intuitive, but it's actually cleaner to use wood blocks when doing raw meat.

EDIT: And GLASS? I weep for your kitchen knives.

concern for kitchen knives is for the poors

 

[ginman]

Kitchen knives.... who needs them! I have found that a good wooden spoon can serve as the only kitchen utensil you will ever need if you get a good one.

 

[dshans]

My parents' once had a Woodie – a faux-woodie. It was a Mercury Station Wagon around 1957 vintage.

It transported our family of seven from Syosset, NY to St. Pete Beach, FL for relocation in 1959. It ALMOST made it when we relocated to Orlando in 1963.

It looked a bit like this:

 

[kmoose]

Why would anyone stick with a wooden spoon hanging on the wall, when we ALL know that it's backup, the silver spoon, is CLEARLY more talented?

#revisit grandma

 

[dshans]

Why would anyone stick with a wooden spoon hanging on the wall, when we ALL know that it's backup, the silver spoon, is CLEARLY more talented?

#revisit grandma

But silver is softer than wood and likely to bend under "stress."

 

[Circa]

Actually some Mexicans said that, not NDinLA, some other ones...

besides, sucking on a dirty penny will help you pass a breathalyzer, NDinLA DID tell me that one...

So not true. I've tried that. A mouthful of pennies later I spent 3 nights with Americas finest

 

[woolybug25]

So not true. I've tried that. A mouthful of pennies later I spent 3 nights with Americas finest

At least it wasn't a Mexican prison... Those people are barely human.

 

[ulukinatme]

My dad would kill anyone that went near his pasta while it was cooking or when it was time to serve it with anything but wooden spoons. I think he told me you'd bruise the pasta or something...IDK. He was adamant though.

My mom used them as disciplinary devices...

When I went to college, we found like seven of them hidden in my bedroom...so I used to have some extras apparently.

Anywho, I use them to cook with...

material wise...IDK. My dad had a layered oak one (like a butcher block looking kinda deal) back in the 70s that he protected...oiled it with olive oil...had a spot he hung it...I guess Italians are opinionated about sauce and cooking utensils...shrug. I think my mom broke it on my brother's ass....

I've always used whatever was hanging out at the grocery store...but I still have issues approaching pasta without a wooden spoon. Go figure.

This...this was the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title. Wooden spoons were used as torture devices when we were bad. My brother was exceptionally bad...he got a wooden spoon broken over his ass once.

 

[Bishop2b5]

This...this was the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title. Wooden spoons were used as torture devices when we were bad. My brother was exceptionally bad...he got a wooden spoon broken over his ass once.

Same at my house. Wooden spoons and those wooden paddles with a red rubber ball attached by a long rubber band. As soon as the rubber band broke, the paddle was Mom's.

Here's the worst thing my mom ever did to me (and she still teases me about it to this day). She'd wake me up for school and as soon as she'd leave my room to go cook breakfast, I'd just roll over & go back to sleep. She got tired of having to walk back to my room 2 or 3 times every morning to wake me up again and drag me out of bed. Finally, she told me that the next time I went back to sleep, she was going to stick me in the butt with a pin. I knew that sweet little woman who loved me with all her heart would do no such thing. I was wrong. That one time was enough to break me of that habit. She even gave my wife a pack of straight pins as a wedding gift.

 

[Booslum31]

I was the youngest of eight children and the running joke in our family was that the only toy I had as a kid was a wooden spoon. Hence, why it took me so long to open this thread. The whole thing has left me...damaged.

 

[dshans]

Damaged is as Damaged does.

Any toy in a (shit) storm.

A (wooden) spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

Everybody's fighting about that (wooden) spoonful.

Wooden Spoon River Anthology.

UCLA: John Wooden (spoon).



Please stop me now. I've damn near exhausted my (wooden) silver-spoon-in-mouth bullshit references.

 

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[IrishLion]

It's good to see that Wooly is being productive with his free time while away from IE.

 

[Meatloaf]

It's good to see that Wooly is being productive with his free time while away from IE.

But making your own utensils is for the poors!

 

[ulukinatme]

Guys, I know why the team has really sucked this year. We've been using inferior spoons! We need to distribute smaller, wooden spoons to the team. That way they eat their meals slower allowing proper digestion to take place and stave off fat accumulation.

We are slow, spoons must go!

 

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[Meatloaf]

Why?

 

[GATTACA!]

Why?

bcuz

 

[woolybug25]

Why?

bcuz

 

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[NDdomer2]

Goty wife some wooden spoons for an Christmas gift. She's somehow managed to lose a few since moving to our house. What a coincidence bump.

 

[Circa]

We use a wooden one for fruits and vegetable and a glass one for all meats. You are right, the wooden one will carry bacteria.


EDIT: Great thread Wooly

What kind of bacteria? Just curious as to the false nature of your quote?

 

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[Irish YJ]

Growing up in an Italian Catholic hood, this is how I remember the wooden spoon.

 

[Circa]

Growing up in an Italian Catholic hood, this is how I remember the wooden spoon.

Always thought you was a silver spoon type of guy...
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[Cackalacky2.0]

Bump. 😂

 

[Rasputin]

The literal translation of "wooden spoon" in the Hungarian language is "fakanal". Go look it up. The pronunciation is as bad as your mind can imagine.

You learned very quickly never to misbehave when visiting a traditional Hungarian family because you understood punishment was by fakanal.