Wooden spoons

My wooden spoons and wooden chopping board (this was made by my dear dad when I got married) are chucked in the washing up (no dishwasher), washed and left to dry. So no special treatment and are fine - and so are we!

I wash wooden things by hand. After a while the surface on the spoons gets rough, so I give them an occasional rub with sandpaper to smooth them down and give the bugs fewer places to lurk. When the wooden chopping board gets too many criss-cross cuts, that gets sandpapered too, and wiped over with a little vegetable oil.

Eek! The wooden spoon I use all the time I inherited from my MiL. I use a huge, heavy wooden chopping board. I never put them in the dishwasher.

Don't have dishwasher so my wooden spoon which I use for baking is washed by hand and is fine

Bone handled knives! I am always nagging about not leaving them in hot water, not putting them in the dishwasher.
There is really only one I am ultra fussy about, it belonged to my great-aunt's mother and must be about 150 years old!

All is clear now. Thanks for the picture wobblybits. for you.

I'm with you Jalima my wooden spoons are all like yours in a utensil holder - they're no use in a drawer I want them to hand. I have lots, some older than others, last ones I bought was 18 months ago when I was in temporary accommodation & didn't have any (mine were all in storage)

I don't put anything wood or with bone handles in Dishwasher, glue on handles melt !! I'm still here so can't have done me any harm or my DM who is nearly 88 & hand washes everything

I don't keep my wooden utensils in a drawer, the are ladle side up in a utensil holder on the work surface

I like my spurtle but DH thinks it's useless!

My wooden spoons are years old and go in the dishwasher regularly and none have cracked - yet.
My pastry board is years old, it was my mother's (although she used it a lot more regularly than me!)

I've just replaced wooden chopping boards and bread boards with bamboo ones, I wonder if they will last as long?

How can people live without a spurtle?

My spurtle (which goes in the dishwasher) belonged to my Scottish Grannie who was born in 1885. So if she had it when she married probably makes it 100 years old. It doesn't get used much now as I make porridge for myself in the microwave.

I often put my wooden spoons in the dish washer, and like many people have already stated, mine have not cracked.
If I hand wash them, I use diluted Sterilising Fluid, the type that you use for baby's bottles as a rinse.

Always put my wooden spoons in dishwasher but do replace them fairly regularly as they seem to disappear. Think I must throw them out with the rubbish!
My DD and SIL bought me a beautiful new (quite expensive) wooden block chopping board one year for Christmas. They were staying with us and she put it in the dishwasher. It came out in lots of different little strips as the dishy had melted the glue! I'd only used it once!!

I have my parents' ( though my father did most of the cooking) chopping board and wooden spoon , so they're at least 66 years old.

wobbly
I want!

I have a metal spoon that was my mum's that's worn away on one side. Every time I use it I can see her standing at the stove stirring something. Ah, that's a happy memory

Meat!

Well I have always understood that wooden chopping boards are unhygienic as bacteria can survive in the cracks!! I have a wooden bread board but use a glass one for chopping veg and cuttng up meal.

A spurtle is -- a stick !! Some are sexier than others, but basically a stick.

And a spurtle is????? (ignoramus emoticon)

Now that's a sentence you don't hear very often, Wobblybits

I turn spurtles from time to time.

Could do with a new one! The old ones are getting a bit shabby.
Couldn't do without them. They're especially good fr stirring the mix in my new nonstick, sautéing soup maker!

I can't use wooden spoons at all - just touching them, or any other rough wood, sends shivers up and down my spine (in fact, I'm cringing now just thinking about touching them!). So it's plastic all the way here. If DH is feeling particularly mean mischievous, he'll pretend that he's going to lick the spoon he's using and watch me freak out

My dad was the same with cottonwool, and so is DD1. We've obviously inherited freaky fingers! I've been very careful not to let the DGS see any sign of this, but DGS2 was helping put out the washing the other day and said that he didn't like the wooden pegs, he'd only use the plastic ones...

Galen spurtles are readily available in Scotland! They're a bit of a tourist souvenir item now, you'll even see them on sale in motorway service stations as last minute panic-gifts.