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The Spork’s Better Half

December 7, 2009 by Chris Durso

spoonThe spoon is often an under-appreciated utensil. Playing second fiddle to its pronged sidekick and parodied by the invention of the spork.

But a spoon should be a cook’s ultimate tool, a weapon even. It should be your guide to kitchen dominance… Your culinary Sherpa.

A spoon… For real?

Well consider this. Some pro cooks will carve their names in their spoons… They claim them. You do not touch another cook’s spoons. This is because their spoon is their guide to quality control. It tells a pro everything that they need to know. Besides the tasting part, it can also be used for general measurement, as a meat flipper, a baster, or to flip frozen peas at co-workers. It is truly invaluable.

A spoon can easily become more important than any knife. Sure, a pro cook will probably not let you touch their knife either, but that’s because they’ve probably spent a day’s pay on it.

So, if you are a home cook reading this, splurge on a good spoon as we’ve suggested on our recipe mantra page. Let the spoon teach you how to train your palate by tasting as you cook. New ingredient gets added, taste, proceed. This is a good way to break free from relying on a step-by-step recipe. Learn to taste and the rest of your senses will follow.

Picking up the small quirks of a pro could be the first step to cooking like one. Just for fun, carve your name in your new tasting spoon and verbally assault anyone who looks at it funny. You will be cooking like a pro in no time.

spoononnoseThank you for reading. And because you didn’t ask for it… People doing the spoon on the nose trick.

Filed Under: Bloggity Tagged With: culinary, kitchen, spoon, tasting

Comments

  1. Chris Durso says

    December 10, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    Some foodiggity merchandise has been held up in Taiwanese customs pending investigation, including said hoodies, foodiggity onesies, and foodiggity velcro wallets.

  2. Hoodiggity says

    December 10, 2009 at 2:12 pm

    I’d like to buy an xmas gift for myself…a foodiggity hoodie. Where they at?

  3. Chris Durso says

    December 7, 2009 at 8:04 pm

    Foodiggity’s X-Mas tips… I like the sound of that. Thanks Kristin.

  4. Kristin says

    December 7, 2009 at 3:32 pm

    Cool article and I was thinking that an ‘engraved spoon’ for my cook friend would be a really awesome gift for X-Mas! Thanks for the tips 🙂

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