Thread: Spoons & Utensils

Nice. Do you do the plasticine trick to measure your scoop bowls to standard measures?

No never heard of it. I was just going to use salt and water.

More Piccies. The wife has been doing the carving and ive been cheating using a Router, Jigsaw, Planer, Belt Sander< Orbital Sander and lots of hand sanding.

Cover the bowl of a standard measure such as a tablespoon with cling wrap. Leave some cling wrap over hanging the bowl. Fill it with plasticine.wrap the plasticine with the remaining cling wrap. Now you have a handy standard tablespoon measure that you can use on the run so it's not too deep or too shallow.
if it doesn't matter then no problem

Ive just been plunging the router in to the wood with a 38mm core box bit until its full depth which is very scary if you don't do it slow.

How would merbau go in cooking?

Chop it up finely with a bit of garlic and onion then saute it suppose.

Nice.

Originally Posted by Tony ray

Chop it up finely with a bit of garlic and onion then saute it suppose.

Ha Ha . I have a fair bit of Merbau, and have noticed that the tannin still weeps several years after being cut.

What a fine collection! Don't look machine made at all. (Thank goodness).
How about some prep forks? They would need 3 or 4 tines at the most.

Nice looking spoons!

Claude

Originally Posted by cava

Ha Ha . I have a fair bit of Merbau, and have noticed that the tannin still weeps several years after being cut.

The Merbau is recycled floor boards. At first I thought it was jarrah but some of them turned really pink after sanding.
I will get some piccies up of the floor boards.
There seems to be a lot of confusion when it comes to which woods to use in the kitchen. Camphor laurel seems one of the worse but lots of chopping boards are made of it and I have a couple I brought back from Byron Bay which I use.
The only wood I heard not to use is Yew.
I was thinking of making the mother in law some Yew utensils

All woods may be toxic to someone... Here are some sites that have some info on wood toxicity:

Wood Allergies and Toxicity | The Wood Database

Toxic Woods UK

Danger in the Woods

Claude

Gone crazy making spoons in the last 2 weeks. Elbow is so sore from the hand sanding.