The Cooking Spoon as a Scepter

Abstract

A cooking spoon with its long handle is used to stir liquid and mushy food in a pot. In the past cooking spoons were made either out of metal so that it was easier to stir in big pots or out of wood. Before mass production began wooden cooking spoons were manufactured at homes in the winter in wooded regions. The wood used for this included ahorn, ash, bird cherry, linden or yewwood.34 Today cooking spoons are also made out of plastic. As many objects that have replaced a wooden one color becomes an issue. The shape and function of a cooking spoon can be imitated. But the material has yet to be imitated in a convincing way. To what end, one might ask, since there are a number of industrial cooking spoons that cover the entire range of yellow, white and brown shades. The purpose of camouflage is to make the spoon blend in with the other wooden ones in the kitchen drawer. Knife handles also used to be made of wood before they were eventually replaced by plastic. A preference for black knife handles has emerged. The expensive handles made out of tropical wood also used to be black. A black knife handle simply has a more dignified look. But people seem to intuitively have something against black cooking spoons. The association with black tropical wood does not arise. Instead, one thinks of slightly charcoaled wooden cooking spoons. This happened in a time in which the hearth fire was a bit more unpredictable. But even in modern households cooking spoons sometimes get burned. You just have to place a wooden spoon on top of the pot so that it sticks out on the right and left-hand side and before you know it the handle is burned.