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.

[*pepe]

so when you rest your spoon, on an appropriate receptacle of course, does your handle lean to the left or to the right?

[icyfroth]

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@am*3 wrote:
Now that is funny 🙂

So not many people here actually have and use a made for the purpose spoon rest?.

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Yeah so many ppl have actually found the time to give it a rest, Am.

[cherry*135]

Being left handed, to the left, I am a leftie...

I use a clean poly. chopping board, mostly to rest used cooking utensils on. Not every utensil is spoon shaped is it? ... lifters for pancakes, tongs etc. 

Chopping board goes in the dishwasher, no extra work per se.

[punch*drunk]

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@am*3 wrote:

Being left handed, to the left, I am a leftie...

I use a clean poly. chopping board, mostly to rest used cooking utensils on. Not every utensil is spoon shaped is it? ... lifters for pancakes, tongs etc. 

Chopping board goes in the dishwasher, no extra work per se.

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Thats what I need, poly chopping board. I have 4 wooden ones and they somehow all get used at once (especially if the kids are cooking) and I cant put them in the diswasher.

[icyfroth]

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@*pepe wrote:

so when you rest your spoon, on an appropriate receptacle of course, does your handle lean to the left or to the right?

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to the right of course.

geez what a question ffffwt.

[debra9275]

[mtnlane]

'So I'm astounded that a person of your level of education (so you would like to have yourself perceived) would use this as "a bit of laughable stuff"'

At no stage did I use the topic of the Irish Famine as a bit of 'laughable stuff' - just a tongue in cheek (albeit too light hearted) comment followed by a 

As far as 'perception' is concerned, I could not care what some here 'assume' is my level of education.  As an aside my early learning included comprehension and my tertiary education reinforced ethics which I had learned at my parents' knees 

My late Mother also used an ashtray as a spoon rest - so I obviously carried that early learning forward into adult life too 

[i-need-a-martini]

Hey Am.

I did say in post 210 (how the heck did this thread to get this far??) exactly what is says on the copy you posted - washing depends on what you are doing.

If you are cooking it in a steamer/rice cooker for asian style rice, then yes, wash the starch off.

And if you are making a risotto (or any recipe that requires you to boil the rice in water) then it shouldn't be washed because you need the starch to make it all mushy.

However, rice doesn't need to be washed because it is dirty.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@amber-eyed-girl wrote:

"Bleach down a kitchen sink??  

Given that bleach can't be processed through a sewerage treatment, those chemicals are going straight into our oceans and rivers. 

All because you can't be bothered scrubbing??"

 Martini, I do not put bleach down my sink, sineater does. You replied to me so just clarifying that 🙂

I was not pleased to think anyone here would be doing that, but doubted they would. Not in a home kitchen.

I rinse my rice, normal strainer.

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Apologies.

[punch*drunk]

Look at me no spoon rest