Comments on: the most valuable tool in my kitchen, or, in defense of the wooden spoon http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2008/08/the-most-valuable-tool-in-my-kitchen-or-in-defense-of-the-wooden-spoon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-most-valuable-tool-in-my-kitchen-or-in-defense-of-the-wooden-spoon Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:55:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: xl pharmacy http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2008/08/the-most-valuable-tool-in-my-kitchen-or-in-defense-of-the-wooden-spoon/#comment-19950 xl pharmacy Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:15:00 +0000 http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/?p=107#comment-19950 This is one of greatest blogs I’ve read since ever. Your site contains a lot of useful information and I’m sure many people will like it as I do. I'll keep visiting your blog very frequently. This is one of greatest blogs I’ve read since ever. Your site contains a lot of useful information and I’m sure many people will like it as I do. I’ll keep visiting your blog very frequently.

]]> By: Kitchenaid Artisan Mixer http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2008/08/the-most-valuable-tool-in-my-kitchen-or-in-defense-of-the-wooden-spoon/#comment-19763 Kitchenaid Artisan Mixer Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:07:30 +0000 http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/?p=107#comment-19763 Thanks friend nice site and some good posts, keep up the goodI was surfing google and I found your site and it is really great, keep up the great work!web site to my feed reader, excellent stuff. I Cannot get enough! Thanks friend nice site and some good posts, keep up the goodI was surfing google and I found your site and it is really great, keep up the great work!web site to my feed reader, excellent stuff. I Cannot get enough!

]]> By: Jill Corish http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2008/08/the-most-valuable-tool-in-my-kitchen-or-in-defense-of-the-wooden-spoon/#comment-2785 Jill Corish Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:21:16 +0000 http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/?p=107#comment-2785 I had several wonderful hard wood spoons that I brought back from a trip to Sarajevo. One very cold winter here, when my cat was ver old, we got ice in the broiler drawer of the stove. There must have been a hole in the wall behind the stove. The mice ate the tops of the spoons that were stored in the gadget turn-around on the counter. I was crushed - I LOVED those spoons and they'd been through a LOT with me. The ones I have now are no-where near as good but they are definitely better than plastic or metal. We have two new cats, and no mice... I had several wonderful hard wood spoons that I brought back from a trip to Sarajevo. One very cold winter here, when my cat was ver old, we got ice in the broiler drawer of the stove. There must have been a hole in the wall behind the stove. The mice ate the tops of the spoons that were stored in the gadget turn-around on the counter. I was crushed – I LOVED those spoons and they’d been through a LOT with me. The ones I have now are no-where near as good but they are definitely better than plastic or metal. We have two new cats, and no mice…

]]> By: Marion Bennett http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2008/08/the-most-valuable-tool-in-my-kitchen-or-in-defense-of-the-wooden-spoon/#comment-2703 Marion Bennett Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:58:15 +0000 http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/?p=107#comment-2703 My most valuable is my "rachel ray" knife. I've been in the kitchen for over 30 years and I got my first wooden spoon set this summer. i just didn't think it was necessary. it has become my second most valueable and used kitchen tool. My most valuable is my “rachel ray” knife. I’ve been in the kitchen for over 30 years and I got my first wooden spoon set this summer. i just didn’t think it was necessary. it has become my second most valueable and used kitchen tool.

]]> By: Mari http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2008/08/the-most-valuable-tool-in-my-kitchen-or-in-defense-of-the-wooden-spoon/#comment-2697 Mari Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:14:25 +0000 http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/?p=107#comment-2697 I am looking for the kind of spurtle that lucinda quinn uses. any clue where i can purchase one? thanks I am looking for the kind of spurtle that lucinda quinn
uses. any clue where i can purchase one?
thanks

]]> By: Rick http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2008/08/the-most-valuable-tool-in-my-kitchen-or-in-defense-of-the-wooden-spoon/#comment-2643 Rick Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:07:46 +0000 http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/?p=107#comment-2643 That's a good question. I have a $35 stand-up mixer by Hamilton Beach. Haven't been able to find the difference between that and one of those $250 jobs except that mine has a glass mixing bowl. (Dough and metal can cause an adverse chemical reaction ruining your dough. I do a lot of Artisan baking.) Then there's all my glass bowls. They're heavier then metal and move around much less when stirring in them and won't cause that adverse chemical reaction to food. Now, there's all my measuring devices of plastic, cups and spoons of all sizes. (I have one set of metal cups for melting or heating stuff.) And, of course, my wooden spoons... but a good quality rubber spatula might be close to the top, here. (I have a few of those as well.) All my greatest recipes can be found on my friend's web site. (Mine are all numbered, btw.) http://hawkdawg.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=29&sid=e0666144fd651f323f4d36157f6be7fa Enjoy! Rick That’s a good question.
I have a $35 stand-up mixer by Hamilton Beach. Haven’t been able to find the difference between that and one of those $250 jobs except that mine has a glass mixing bowl. (Dough and metal can cause an adverse chemical reaction ruining your dough. I do a lot of Artisan baking.)
Then there’s all my glass bowls. They’re heavier then metal and move around much less when stirring in them and won’t cause that adverse chemical reaction to food.
Now, there’s all my measuring devices of plastic, cups and spoons of all sizes. (I have one set of metal cups for melting or heating stuff.)
And, of course, my wooden spoons… but a good quality rubber spatula might be close to the top, here. (I have a few of those as well.)
All my greatest recipes can be found on my friend’s web site. (Mine are all numbered, btw.)
http://hawkdawg.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=29&sid=e0666144fd651f323f4d36157f6be7fa

Enjoy!
Rick

]]> By: D. Sullivan http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2008/08/the-most-valuable-tool-in-my-kitchen-or-in-defense-of-the-wooden-spoon/#comment-1461 D. Sullivan Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:06:09 +0000 http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/?p=107#comment-1461 On #3 I mixed up 2 books next to each other on my shelf. Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons is a cookbook from Africa and the African-influenced New World. The book by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor is Vibration Cooking or the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl. On #3 I mixed up 2 books next to each other on my shelf. Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons is a cookbook from Africa and the African-influenced New World. The book by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor is Vibration Cooking or the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl.

]]> By: D. Sullivan http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2008/08/the-most-valuable-tool-in-my-kitchen-or-in-defense-of-the-wooden-spoon/#comment-1460 D. Sullivan Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:13:30 +0000 http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/?p=107#comment-1460 1. Years ago (c 1991?) there was a study comparing wood and plastic cutting boards, regarding which was more sanitary. Both were left out overnight with bacteria on them. The bacteria multiplied on the plastic board and the wood board killed them, is how I remember the results. This is a totally unscientific garbling of scientific data to make the bottom line point - don't worry about "germs" on your wood spoon, it can take care of itself. Save the worry for your more-clean-looking plastic stuff. 2. My comparable implement is a wood spatula-like thing that has the perfect shape and curved-ness and flat-ness and width and thinness and flex and firmness. I think it was a freebie that came with a wok I bought in the 1980s. We use the wok maybe every 6 months but have used the wood tool almost daily for many years. I have owned sort of similar ones from Williams Sonoma, Sur La Table, etc. But 1) none are nearly as well-designed, they don't have the right graceful curve and they are far less useful and look ugly, and 2) as with Tara's experience in the comment above, they break but for some reason this one goes on and on. One day it will snap, which will be a sad day in my kitchen history. 3. Great cookbook/memoir is "Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons" by Verta Mae Grosvenor-Smart. Names from memory, un-fact-checked. As I recall she discourses at length about the virtues of wooden spoons. 1. Years ago (c 1991?) there was a study comparing wood and plastic cutting boards, regarding which was more sanitary. Both were left out overnight with bacteria on them. The bacteria multiplied on the plastic board and the wood board killed them, is how I remember the results. This is a totally unscientific garbling of scientific data to make the bottom line point – don’t worry about “germs” on your wood spoon, it can take care of itself. Save the worry for your more-clean-looking plastic stuff.

2. My comparable implement is a wood spatula-like thing that has the perfect shape and curved-ness and flat-ness and width and thinness and flex and firmness. I think it was a freebie that came with a wok I bought in the 1980s. We use the wok maybe every 6 months but have used the wood tool almost daily for many years. I have owned sort of similar ones from Williams Sonoma, Sur La Table, etc. But 1) none are nearly as well-designed, they don’t have the right graceful curve and they are far less useful and look ugly, and 2) as with Tara’s experience in the comment above, they break but for some reason this one goes on and on. One day it will snap, which will be a sad day in my kitchen history.

3. Great cookbook/memoir is “Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons” by Verta Mae Grosvenor-Smart. Names from memory, un-fact-checked. As I recall she discourses at length about the virtues of wooden spoons.

]]> By: chocolate cupcakes with banana cream cheese frosting | pete bakes! http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2008/08/the-most-valuable-tool-in-my-kitchen-or-in-defense-of-the-wooden-spoon/#comment-1442 chocolate cupcakes with banana cream cheese frosting | pete bakes! Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:33:29 +0000 http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/?p=107#comment-1442 [...] it, but it actually made a difference. pretty much everything i’ve made so far was mixed with my favorite wooden spoon and sheer willpower, but the convenience of a standing mixer is, duh, a pretty sweet convenience. [...] [...] it, but it actually made a difference. pretty much everything i’ve made so far was mixed with my favorite wooden spoon and sheer willpower, but the convenience of a standing mixer is, duh, a pretty sweet convenience. [...]

]]> By: mike d http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2008/08/the-most-valuable-tool-in-my-kitchen-or-in-defense-of-the-wooden-spoon/#comment-225 mike d Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:21:25 +0000 http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/?p=107#comment-225 I am in wholehearted solidarity with the wooden spoon. This summer, I've made some of the best bread of my life, and the only baking utensils I have are a spoon, a pyrex crock pot, and two mason jars. Perhaps this is latent germophobia, but over the winter I became paranoid of my wooden spoons, and thought that there could be something lurking the porous material. I've grown out of it, but wonder if this has occurred to anyone else. I am in wholehearted solidarity with the wooden spoon. This summer, I’ve made some of the best bread of my life, and the only baking utensils I have are a spoon, a pyrex crock pot, and two mason jars.

Perhaps this is latent germophobia, but over the winter I became paranoid of my wooden spoons, and thought that there could be something lurking the porous material. I’ve grown out of it, but wonder if this has occurred to anyone else.

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