Talk:Wooden spoon

Woon

added "The word 'woon' was recently coined to describe disposable wooden spoons (typically for eating ice cream)." as second line. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiki alf (talk • contribs) 16:25, 23 June 2005

I removed this (and on Spoon as well). It fails the search engine test; see WP:NEO. — Hex (❝?!❞) 16:01, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Uses

A wooden spoon has many common uses. One could be used as a lid venting device. Also a wooden spoon could be used as a food shaping device. Another use of a wooden spoon could be a cabinet locking device. When a recipe calls for reducing a liquid by half (or any amount), how do you actually judge that reduction? If you're looking down into a pot, it's hard to judge the depth of liquid. But you can measure it. You don't need a ruler, though. Just dip the handle of your wooden spoon into the liquid, just like you use a dipstick to measure the oil in your car. Then mark the line - use a rubber band, or make a little mark with a food-safe marker. Or some liquids will stick to the handle well enough that you might not need to mark it at all. Also if you are using oil in a cooking ingredient the temperature of the oil can be checked with the wooden spoon. When dipping the spoon in the oil the oil will bubble around the spoon when its hot enough to be used.

References

Controversy

The wooden spoon can be used for more than making food, it is commonly used for discipline and making soap. 98.217.172.172 (talk) 23:41, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Use for discipline is not notable, as others have discussed. I am removing this. 68.106.171.81 (talk) 00:47, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Plastic spoon picture?

Does anyone else think it odd that the "wooden spoon" article is illustrated with a picture of plastic spoons? Joyous (talk) 23:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• Never mind: I found a picture of a wooden spoon on the Commons. Joyous (talk) 23:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• I think it's hilarious that they're captioned as "plastic wooden spoons". That and "woon" hah.

How about some usful info such as typical uses of a wooden spoon as opposed to a metal one.

I think this is even more hilarious "A wooden spoon is a spoon made from wood" well my never! Lol! But please don't change it anyone it's a legend already and really funny lol.

Spanking

User:Fastifex: Undue weight to fetishism and its terminology. Same for hairbrush. Not every freaking household item on the list at pervertible needs a reference to spanking. Femto 12:31, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree 100%. Fastifex has been adding this stuff to various articles, no matter how off topic it is. See this for example. I wouldn't be vehemently opposed to a simple, one-line statement that a wooden spoon (or a hairbrush) can be used as a spanking implement (though I draw the line at drum sticks), but without the graphic, salacious, and enthusiastic descriptions. He has been asked repeatedly to join the talk page at Hairbrush and explain in what way the references to bare bottoms and positioning over the lap etc. is relevant to hairbushes, and he has never once attempted to answer. Nor has he responded to any of the pleas and protests at his own talk page. He just reverts, reverts, reverts. He has never once attempted to explain why it's relevant to hairbrush that children can be spanked over the parent's lap, or standing, or bending over. This is becoming quite a problem, and makes Wikipedia look ridiculous. You look up a perfectly normal, everyday topic like hairbrush or shed, and find that you're reading a long paragraph about children's bare bottoms. This isn't healthy. Fastifex, please stop. AnnH ♫ 17:02, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Popular Culture????!!!

I don't see the point of Homer carving a wooden spoon out of a bigger spoon to be on this page... haha —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.169.210.150 (talk) 03:42, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Errr..

This just happened: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=349913845044334&set=a.178267248875662.31441.174775305891523&type=1 --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 04:01, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Must state

IT MUST BE STATED!!! We cannot allow it to be confused with modern spoons. It must be understood that it is made of wood.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.113.25.188 (talk) 22:04, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

In music

Wooden spoons are also used as a percussion instrument, in Russia, Greece, Turkey and Quebec. You can read more about this in the Spoon (Musical Instrument) section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 36.37.234.178 (talk) 07:37, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 27 April 2017

To add , possibly as a new section

Spoonfest to the page. The first and largest international celebration of the carved wooden spoon. Now in its 6th year, held in Edale, United Kingdom and organised by Robin Wood MBE and Barn 'The Spoon' Carder

http://spoonfest.co.uk

}} Kaleches (talk) 16:48, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Nice idea, but I think it needs some secondary coverage before it goes in. Have any of the woodie mags (or Private Eye's "Me and My Spoons" column!) covered it? Andy Dingley (talk) 17:05, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

it is mentioned in the Guardian in 2015 - no link to article, but there is a link to a paper copy here https://www.instagram.com/p/1dbdnszU9l/ , mentioned in a telegraph article here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/9796481/The-joys-of-whittling.html and on this article here https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Barn_the_Spoon Kaleches (talk) 17

37, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Not done: Not notable enough yet. Power~enwiki (talk) 01:05, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 September 2019

please change 'A wooden spoon is a utensil commonly used in food preparation' to 'a wooden spoon is a spoon made of wood' because I personally think that it is easier to understand. thanks Xxizzy 123 (talk) 17:53, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

 Not done: per MOS:FIRST - "Keep redundancy to a minimum in the first sentence. Use the first sentence of the article to provide relevant information that is not already given by the title of the article." ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 20:07, 10 September 2019 (UTC)