Hunger is not my aunt?
It would seem that it would be something on the table, and how to eat – no problem. The way it originally was. And even in medieval Europe, sources say, it was fashionable to fry on a spit of wild boar whole is then hot meat, breaking off pieces with unwashed hands. But in parallel in the palaces were invented zamudrennye ceremony dinner parties with a huge amount of Cutlery. Spoons, forks, knives... not only that, inside this classification there are more modifications: the photo shows not all their diversity.
In Russian peasant life of the plates is not kept – eating from a common pot. And then right at the top out of the cavity, and there poured the soup or porridge was applied. Wooden spoon, however, was different for each person.
Tea spoon for tea
A tea spoon is designed to stir sugar in tea, and also: hot chocolate, cocoa, coffee with milk. However, black Oriental coffee, which is thick, there are special spoon, coffee. It is the same in form as the tea, only smaller. And there's a spoon of sugar, instead of tongs, which is taken Komkova sugar. The sugar spoon is shaped like a kids shovel. The spoon with the ladle, reminiscent of a barrel designed for honey. For lack of a permissible use of the same teaspoon – they are the same size. Even less coffee spoons are teaspoons salt and spices.
Incidentally, the spoon like utensil, used already in the third Millennium BC. This is evidenced by excavations.
Dessert just dessert spoon
The average between table and tea spoons – the spoon.
By volume dessert spoon holds about two times more tea. The average is 10 ml or 10 g of water. She spoon, depending on material (metal) and the wealth of inlay, has a mass of from 35 to 55 g.
Dessert spoon is placed to the middle of the table over the plate a scoop left if lunch will be served dessert that requires no cutting. This can be a mousse or pudding and fruit in syrup, berries and cream, grapefruit or kiwi. For the last two overseas representatives again shape features: for grapefruit scoop slightly elongated to the kiwi round. In addition to them: spoon for ice cream, a little less dessert with slightly curved edges. Spoon cold drink is tea, but with an elegant elongated handle.