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*]

yep, you're right, sorry, obviously I meant dauphine p[otatoes - dauphioise are hardly likely to explode, eh?

apologies

*blush*

must have made too many dauphinoise this week and have them on my brain

[cherry*135]

I don't  know how the issue of food safety rules in commercial kitchens even got to be such a big thing, in a thread about spoon rests.

Most of us are home cooks. Of course when we eat out compliance with food safety regs is important at the places we dine in at.

Otherwise how they do or don't do stuff in commerical kitchens isn't of much interest.

In NSW now, they Health Dept name and shame restaraunts and cafes that receive notices of non-compliance and/or penalties/fines. 

pepe - I don't like the taste of salt either. My father was and sister is very heavy on the salt shaker. I am the opposite.

I don't have a spoon rest, sometimes think one would be useful.

[amber-eyed-girl]

Started with rice and chickens somewhere early on, I think. I have a lot of French country style bowls and things...went through them but there isn't a spoon rest. Which means I am going to look for one to match, it's yellow and blue with roosters in the middle.

[j*oono]

I think you might have the wrong kitchen equipment Crikey.  You can't thinly slice potatoes in a mouli but you can use a chinois to wash your rice but seriously, why would you bother? If you want to wash your rice use a mesh strainer as I do for dried split peas after they have been soaked.

I would really love one of those chinois thingies.Sorry if I spelt that wrong but I don't have one.  It would be great for making a good stock.  I'm thinking of the Jamie Oliver Christmas Gravy made with chicken wings and roast veggies.

[Anonymous]

I must have missed this thread ...

What a shame ...



Not !



Some pretty spoon rests here !

[vampire-teddy]

i use my spoon rest all the time.  

[i-need-a-martini]

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??

Thanks for that.

[icyfroth]

My mother used to rinse her rice in a strainer before cooking. I used to as well, but don't anymore. No special reason, just got lazy I think.

Same with the split peas, used to rinse them as well.

I'll be making some pea n ham soup  later so I might take up the practice again, after what Crikey said about the rodent droppings.

I agree with Martini about the bleach. It doesn't belong in our rivers and oceans, thank you. 

[i-need-a-martini]

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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.