I do not doubt that all of you have used wooden spoons in your life some way or another. You just cannot deny the fact that they are stylish and helpful for a long list of tasks. You can eat with them, you can serve applying them but the most frequent use is cooking. Being durable still they require the replacement from time to time and that is a perfect chance to buy a new set and enjoy its beauty and functionality.
We usually use a lot of things in our kitchen. There are tools for various cooking methods, of different style and size, made of any possible material. There are pieces which are applied for ages and ages and will be handed down as a heritage. They are usually made of stainless steel or silver. There are also utensils bought for a season just because they are cute or of a nice color, but not durable and convenient we are speaking about the items made of plastic. Some of them are rather cheap; the others can cost quite a lot due to particular material used, or to the complicated construction developed to improve their consumer properties.
And you have something between the above examples: durable but not everlasting, stylish but not very expensive though full of various ideas how to make cooking or serving even simpler and more convenient. These are the wooden utensils. You can buy a piece or a set of the world-known or local manufacturers and test them in practice.
The wood used for spoon production is chosen carefully to provide the needed characteristics of the finished product. They usually prefer bamboo or olive tree. This material is eco-friendly and absolutely safe for your health and environment. Being developed in accordance with particular technologies it becomes firm and reliable tolerating the rapid changes of temperature, submergence into water and intensive use. You can apply a wooden spoon for pans covered with a non-stick coating without damaging it. The edges of a piece are usually so even and smooth that you will not be able to apply it roughly scraping a bottom.
As to its other features such a spoon is light and comfortable to hold due to well-shaped handle. The handle is usually long if we speak about a cooking tool. There can be a hook integrated in it for hanging up or a kind of clip needed to fasten a spoon on a rib of a pan when over heat. The producers try to offer new solutions in order to attract the consumers and sustain competition.
The design also varies a lot. In general, a spoon consists of a handle and a bowl. It seems that there is no space for creativity. Still you can find a lot of variants which can be intended exactly for some particular cooking techniques or even dishes. There are various decorative tricks like multicolored handles covered with silicon or plastic. The form of a bowl can be even surprising: round, oval, asymmetric. Every version solves some particular tasks that are why such a spoon is used under specified conditions and help to make cooking effective.
By the way you should not think that wood is not cleaned as easy as stainless steel for example. Being anti-microbial itself it still requires washing after each use in warm or hot soapy water but it should be made by hand. Refuse dishwasher because the steam and chemicals influencing for an extended period of time will cause cracks. You can use a slice of lemon to rub the working parts and remove the undesired strong flavors left after the foods. Dry the clean wooden utensils with a cloth kitchen towel or let air dry. And you can stretch out the service term and apply mineral oil to the wood from time to time preventing cracking.
Everything is simple and the result will satisfy expectations.
