What do we know about spoons, in addition to being a cutlery resembling a small spatula that scoops food out of a plate? Most likely, we know: "Road spoon for dinner" and other folklore wisdom on her account. We know that they eat the first dishes with a tablespoon, stir the sugar in tea with a teaspoon, and dessert is needed for use when we are enjoying delicate jelly and other yummy.
Which spoons are more common in our everyday life? What kind of cutlery for this purpose have you ever heard of? Right now we will recognize and remember the types of spoons and their purpose in our kitchen. Modern appliances are designed to facilitate food intake or its preparation. These devices are divided into main and auxiliary (auxiliary).
Main types
Basic created for direct use for direct purposes. Namely: they belong to the most common type of spoons - for food. This category of devices includes:
- Dining room. Without it, your life will become dull and more complicated. This spoon is perfectly adapted for convenient tasting of liquid dishes. A fragrant rich soup would not be so tasty if it weren’t for the most banal, at first glance, cutlery. The capacity of this type of spoon is 18 milliliters.
- Dessert - the younger sister of the dining room. Its volume is almost half less. This device is convenient to take jam, creamy sweet treats. Often they are served in bowls and deep plates. Another dessert spoon is convenient to eat a cake (from soft cakes, not sand). Ice cream also relies on this small dessert spoon.
- A teaspoon. Its main function is to help dissolve sugar in drinks. The most commonly used hot drink in the world is tea - hence the simple name. However, a teaspoon with triumph is able to replace its older sister - dessert. For scooping up jams and other similar sweets for some reason, they prefer this spoon more often. Ice cream and cake with this appliance is also very convenient to eat. The volume is only 5 milliliters, and how much useful this baby does! And much more convenient than a large dessert spoon.
- Coffee Shop. This very small cutlery holds just 3 milliliters. Foam latte and a coffee spoon are inseparable.
Auxiliary spoons
These toilers are always ready to help with cooking in the kitchen. However, their capabilities are not limited to one kitchen. But what are these assistants.
- Bottling. A cook, a ladle, a ladle - it's all about her, about a pouring spoon. The volume of this indispensable device starts at 100 milliliters or more. Each kitchen should have several cookers. A scoop is used to scoop up the first (liquid) dishes and sauces. Stewed fruit, jelly and punch are also poured using this type of spoons.
- Sauce spoon. Of course, you can distribute sauces using a scoop, but using a special sauce spoon with a spout makes the task much easier.
- Spoon-shovel for caviar. It is customary to lay eggs with such a spatula on a cracker or a sandwich during a feast.
- For the salad. With this special cutlery, a salad from a common salad bowl will safely move into your individual plate.
- Spoons for spices. Such babies, as their name implies, are designed to add various spices (salt, pepper) to a portioned dish.
- Soft-boiled egg spoon. Yes, such a spoon has its place in the collection of cutlery. Its size is slightly smaller than coffee. In principle, it is possible to use a coffee spoon. The main thing is that it was not a silver spoon. Noble metal blackens from contact with egg contents.
About materials for making spoons
The most common are cutlery made of metals and their alloys. Caring for them does not require special conditions and knowledge. Any of these materials for the production of cutlery has its own advantages, due to which it is popular among people:
- Stainless steel is one of the budget materials for the production of spoons and other kitchen appliances.
- The alloy of chromium and nickel are also good spoons, they look pretty decent and do not lose their shine. Durable and cute.
- Aluminum. During the years of the Union, spoons from this metal were in every kitchen. They were not expensive and, in principle, looked pretty good. However, over time, it was replaced by more shiny metallic materials in production.
Eco tree
In Russia, wooden spoons for food more often enjoyed universal recognition and love. The owner could "punch" such devices as much as necessary for his large family. Eating with such an environmentally friendly spoon was even convenient: a wooden spoon did not burn mouth with hot food. Over time, such a device began to be used not only for its intended purpose, it began to be decorated with painting and varnished. So a wooden spoon gradually turned into a number of Russian souvenirs. You will not become this varnished spoon, but to use it in the decor of the kitchen is a distinguishing idea.
For use in cooking, it is better to have wooden spoons for special purposes. Now they are more like a rounded, flat shoulder blade with a recess. The use of such a spatula significantly increases the service life of cookware with non-stick coating. Of course, such a wooden spoon should not contain any decorations using paints and other coatings. But carved, decorative elements will add charm to such a tool useful in our time.
silver spoon
The use of spoons from this noble metal became most noticeable during the reign of Peter the Great. But they appeared long before the birth of Peter himself. It is customary to give a small silver spoon to the child. And as a baptismal gift, such a baby spoon has become a tradition. Apparently, the fact that silver is an antiseptic material played a role in this tradition. Family silverware used to be considered a sign of the aristocracy, and now many people can afford sets of silverware. With the use of spoons from this metal, many still make silver water. A clean silver spoon is placed in a glass of water, and after a few hours the water is enriched with silver ions.
Using this type of devices, it is necessary to take into account that their care will be more thorough than the usual ones - from nickel silver or nickel. Cleaning darkened silver will help restore its radiance. The easiest cleaning methods: baking soda, tooth powder. Powder (or soda), applied to a previously moistened sponge or cloth, you need to rub the product and rinse them in running cold water. Do not leave silver appliances wet. Always wipe the spoons from silver thoroughly and dry. Otherwise, they become covered with ugly spots.
Plastic spoon
Their varieties are enough. There are plastic spoons included in the picnic basket. There are very cheap, disposable items for use at some fast food outlets.
No less well-known variation of such a spoon is for children. This spoon is designed for convenient and safe feeding of the baby. Her baby begins to learn to eat independently. Plastic, in this case, will be less traumatic than metal versions of the product.
Safety and convenience
This device is not so easy to damage the delicate baby gums when feeding. Waving it (as children often do) during meals, the child will not hit himself with the consequences that could happen if he used at that moment an ordinary or even a silver spoon.
Handles in children's spoons are often preferred to be made thicker, which makes the use of the device convenient for the baby.
Cons of plastic
Not everything is as perfect as we would like. A child, having learned to eat with a light and bright spoon with a thick handle, can hardly adapt to more "adult" spoons, which are sure to appear in his life very soon. However, each parent has the right to decide whether or not to give such a special device to his baby.
A spoon can be a real work of art. This fact confirms the creation of the museum of the spoon in the city of Vladimir and the town of Nytva.