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Meryl Feinstein, recipe developer and founder of Pasta Social Club, reaches for her wooden spoons when making risotto. "Wood is great to use and hold. It melds to your hand better and can be more ...
Horn (or mother of pearl) are used for caviar, since a silver spoon would unpleasantly affect the taste of the delicate roe. Iced tea spoon or parfait spoon — with a bowl similar in size and shape to that of a teaspoon, and with a long slim handle, used in stirring tall drinks, or eating parfait , sundaes, sorbets, or similar foods served in ...
The word spoon derives from an ancient word meaning a chip of wood or horn carved from a larger piece. [1] Wooden spoons were easy to carve and thus inexpensive, making them common throughout history. The Iron Age Celts (c. 250 BC) of Britain used them.
Horn comes in a great variety of sizes and colors, including white, green, red, brown, and black. Horn can be used in its natural state, boiled, cut, molded to other shapes, or used in flat sheets. It has been used for a variety of objects including ceremonial decorations, utensils such as spoons and containers, gaming pieces, and combs.
In the United States, spoons as instrument are associated with American folk music, minstrelsy, and jug and spasm bands. These musical genres make use of other everyday objects as instruments, such as the washboard and the jug. In addition to common tableware, spoons that are joined at the handle are available from musical instrument suppliers.
A spoon (UK: / ˈ s p uː n /, US: / ˈ s p u n / SPOON) is a utensil consisting of a shallow bowl (also known as a head), oval or round, at the end of a handle. A type of cutlery (sometimes called flatware in the United States), especially as part of a place setting , it is used primarily for transferring food to the mouth (eating).
A bukkehorn (Norwegian) or bockhorn (Swedish), also called ″Billy Goat Horn″ in English, is an ancient Scandinavian musical instrument, made from the horn of a sheep or a goat. The horn is usually made from a goat horn harvested 5 to 7 years before the instrument is crafted.
Horn may be used as a material in tools, furniture and decoration, among other uses. In these applications, horn is valued for its hardness, and it has given rise to the expression hard as horn. Horn is somewhat thermoplastic and (like tortoiseshell) was formerly used for many purposes where plastic would now be used. Horn may be used to make glue.