Spoon Rests! What A Totally Superflous Kitchen Item!

[icyfroth]

I often see them in the op shops and think pffft, what a useless item. As if you couldn't use a saucer or whatever you have at hand while you're cooking. Making bolognese tonight I just rested the spoon on the side of the can.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

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@*crikey*mate* wrote:

we studdied a case a couple of years ago where a kid got food poisoning.

The source?

Every afternoon he would buy a can of soda on the way home from school, drink it straight out of the can.

Turns out somewhere in the supply chain, rats and mice would crawl over the cans and pee and poo on them....

then the kid got sick from drinking from the cans....

abnd then there is the famous snail case..

I tell ya

blerk

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You might wanna check snopes for the sources of those tall tales.

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You may want to check the Law...

For the snail case, check out Donoghue v Stevenson.

Foundational case for modern Negligence Law

[i-need-a-martini]

Check the law for what?

And that snail case was the one and only. And it dates back to 1932. I am sure modern forensics would have a field day with that claim.

And while I am on a roll, there is no need to wash modern, packaged rice.

[*crikey*mate*]

and for one rat case (not the one I was thinking of, BUT

Tremain v Pike => Negligence case law again

[i-need-a-martini]

I am not suggesting that leptosporosis doesn't exist.

But I am suggesting that getting it from the top of soft drink cans sitting in a store room are extremely unlikely and this scenario is the stuff of numerous fake warning emails that have done the rounds since the early 90s..

[i-need-a-martini]

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@*crikey*mate* wrote:

So, maybe when you know what you are talking about.......

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So, maybe when you can actually provide real (modern) cases relating to cases where people have died or been poisoned by drinking from the top of a soft drink can, then perhaps I will believe that YOU know what you are talking about...

[icyfroth]

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@mtnlane wrote:

The Irish might disagree with you about that 

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why?

[icyfroth]

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@j*oono wrote:

Rice is even grown in the Ganges. My goodness, the grooblies that are inhabiting there are horrendous.

Icy, sometimes I do prefer a good spud.  With a litte bit of butter and light sour cream.  I usually rest my spoon on the side of my plate in that situation.

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Ok.

I usually use a knife and fork to eat spuds.  I rest them on the side of the plate between mouthfuls as well, though.

[punch*drunk]

haha, this thread is hysterical. I'll admit to being the only feral who occasionally rests my spoon on the (clean) bench, or leaves it in the pot of whatever I'm cooking. Its the lazy gene.

I started rinsing my rice recently, in a colander (didnt know what a chinois was), because the rice cooker instructions tell me to and it does seem to cook better in there if I do.

As for soft drink cans, the contents are far more dangerous to your health (obesity etc) than whatevers lurking around on the top.

[zanadoo_56]

I thought rice was rinsed to get rid of excess starch so it wouldn't stick together as much?

Oh well, might have got it wrong.  I'm not much of a cook.

As for spoon rests - I still have one bought in either the late 70s or early 80s with all the colour and style that was of the era - it's Tupperware and in glorious (not) avocado green.  Extremely ugly but it does the job. I expect that when I am long under the earth it will still be around somewhere.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@punch*drunk wrote:

haha, this thread is hysterical. I'll admit to being the only feral who occasionally rests my spoon on the (clean) bench, or leaves it in the pot of whatever I'm cooking. Its the lazy gene.

I started rinsing my rice recently, in a colander (didnt know what a chinois was), because the rice cooker instructions tell me to and it does seem to cook better in there if I do.

As for soft drink cans, the contents are far more dangerous to your health (obesity etc) than whatevers lurking around on the top.

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Re: rice washed or not.

Yes - if you are cooking rice in a cooker and not in water, you should rinse the excess starch off first. It does make a slight difference to how the rice separates.

But if cooking in any other way, the boiling water will remove the starch. 

In some instances (ie risotto) you need the startch to get that creamy mush.