Soup Spoons

[lindag]

Who decided that the world no longer needed a soup spoon?

I'm old enough to remember when flatware sets included them.

Much nicer for eating soup than the more common tablespoon.

There are some stubborn folk like me available on Amazon.

[Ddanno]

25 minutes ago, lindag said:

 

There are some stubborn folk like me available on Amazon.

 

I'll buy you.

 

Frippery aside, I agree. Dessertspoons are rubbish for soup, you need that mini-bowl shape to get a good slurp.

[Anchobrie]

Much more annoyed by the lack of fish table knives...

 

I still see spoons around, both clasic european (for me) and asian looking ones.

Edited 23 hours ago by Anchobrie
typos (log)

[Shel_B]

On 8/12/2025 at 6:31 AM, lindag said:

Who decided that the world no longer needed a soup spoon?

[...]

Much nicer for eating soup than the more common tablespoon.

What is the difference between a soup spoon and a tablespoon? What's a tablespoon used for, or intended to be used for?

[Ddanno]

Soup spoons are rounder and  deeper, so both hold more soup and are better for sipping from (imo)

[Maison Rustique]

16 hours ago, Shel_B said:

What is the difference between a soup spoon and a tablespoon? What's a tablespoon used for, or intended to be used for?

In the US, it seems that most cutlery sets sell only tablespoons and not the true soup spoons, so most of us grow up not knowing the difference and considering them interchangeable.

[TdeV]

We used to call them soup spoons and dessert spoons.

 

(to differentiate)

 

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by TdeV (log)

[OlyveOyl]

The round deeper bowl spoon is “technically” a bouillon spoon, the more oval shaped tablespoon  one is for other soups.   I don’t think that is currently in vogue😀!

Edited 2 hours ago by OlyveOyl (log)

[Katie Meadow]

Now you tell me!  For 77 years I've been calling a tablespoon a soup spoon. I don't think I would want to use a tablespoon for dessert; that seems like overkill for rice pudding, flan or ice cream. For wonton soup or just Sechuan wontons in America those ceramic Asian style spoons are very handy. Wontons are the one thing that challenge my otherwise adept use of chopsticks. I can do it, but I like an assist.

 

For some ungodly reason most of my husband's siblings and parents used teaspoons for soup. That's just weird.  And they are all big tall people with big mouths.

Edited 2 hours ago by Katie Meadow (log)