Lick the spoon

[TAPrice]

Yesterday I was making a sandwich and noticed that I've gotten in the habit of licking the spoon clean of Dijon mustard.

I used to always lick the mayonnaise spoon, which is a habit I'm pretty I picked up in Spain. These days, I've broken myself of that one.

So what can you not help but lick straight from the spoon?

[therippa]

nutella.

I've also noticed when making ice cream I can't help but to shove the entire spatula into my mouth after I scrape out the last bit.

[feedmec00kies]

Sour cream.

[nakji]

Sweetened Condensed Milk. Spoon for me, but I have to wrest the can away from my husband.

[Chris Hennes]

Everything mentioned so far, plus peanut butter.

[suzilightning]

miracle whip, pb and any batter i have made.

[Dianabanana]

Stramondo pistachio cream. I never did make anything with it. I just ate it straight from the jar, one ambrosial spoonful at a time.

[Peter the eater]

My secret lover marmite.

[Kerry Beal]

Yogurt, honey, lemon curd...

Pretty much anything that's made it on to a spoon (or a spatula).

I have no self control!

Edited September 28, 2010 by Kerry Beal (log)

[Pierogi]

Another vote for mayo (Best Foods/Hellman's only please), sour cream, mustard and peanut butter.

And the first vote for dulce de leche or Mrs. Richardson's caramel sauce. These 2 products are simply not safe in my home.

[DanM]

I am licking a spoon of cajeta right now...

[lesliec]

Fruit cake and/or biscuit mix. A caring father would have introduced his son to this pleasure from my childhood, but it was just too hard for me to give up.

[onrushpam]

Lyle's Golden Syrup... measure out what goes into the mix and then another little spoonful for the cook's mouf!

[Jenni]

Pretty much anything on a spoon! Biggest culprits are nutella (the evil spread! Luckily we almost never have it in the house), yoghurt, ghee and pickles.

[Amy D.]

If I've gone and made the spoon dirty I'm more than likely going to lick it, why waste good food even if it is just a tiny amount clinging to the spoon? though I’ll go out of my way to get a spoonful of many things including condensed milk, jam, nutella, honey ...basically anything to satisfy that sugar craving

[nickrey]

I'll lick most things off a spoon so as not to waste the goodness. Perhaps it might be better to ask what people don't lick off the spoon.

[HungryC]

Ick, no mayo for me, thanks. But jam (esp raspberry) is a different story...and I do like pickle brine.

[nonblonde007]

Any and all brownie mix.........

[Stephanie Brim]

Ganache, any type of frosting, peanut butter, cookie dough, cake batter, dill pickle juice (when I was a kid, I used to deliberately put extra juice on the plate of dill pickle chips I had as a snack after school and I'd drink it when I'd finished the pickles), ice cream, any kind of sauce I'm making while cooking...yeah, you get the idea. I'm a spoon licker. Nothing is safe around me.

[IowaDee]

Licking spoons is so ingrained in me that I fully expect to lick one that I've used to dole out

dog or cat food. I really need to stop, look and sniff before licking!

[janeer]

Sweetened Condensed Milk. Spoon for me, but I have to wrest the can away from my husband.

Kinda everything, and I lick cooking spoons too(no, I do NOT put them back in)--but the sweetened condensed milk for me, too, is drunk right out of the can. Childhood habit.

[Pierogi]

Sweetened Condensed Milk. Spoon for me, but I have to wrest the can away from my husband.

Kinda everything, and I lick cooking spoons too(no, I do NOT put them back in)--but the sweetened condensed milk for me, too, is drunk right out of the can. Childhood habit.

OK, well, that's a different animal.

If we're talking guzzling straight from the container, I have only one to 'fess up to. Hershey's Chocolate Syrup in the squeeze bottle, or...even better...Trader Joe's Midnight Moo in the squeeze bottle. No other delivery implement required. Open nozzle, insert into mouth, and squeeze.

Luckily, its a single person household, so no one else need worry about the fact I've been slobbering all over the chocolate syrup bottle....

[Stephanie Brim]

I used to do that with the lovely 'fake cheese in a can' stuff...but can't anymore.

Just so that people will still eat at my house, I also don't stick spoons I've licked back into the pots I'm cooking with. I rinse it off.