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.

[Shel_B]

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

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

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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 Thursday at 12:52 PM 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 Thursday at 01:55 PM 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 Thursday at 01:59 PM by Katie Meadow (log)

[jedovaty]

I was influenced to pick up some fancy schmancy spoons (big dipper by umeshiso) for a different hobby, and turns out they are even better for both soup, stews, curries, and most importantly, shoveling cereal into my mouth.  Excellent multi-purpose kitchen tool.

[DesertTinker]

29 minutes ago, jedovaty said:

I was influenced to pick up some fancy schmancy spoons (big dipper by umeshiso) for a different hobby, and turns out they are even better for both soup, stews, curries, and most importantly, shoveling cereal into my mouth.  Excellent multi-purpose kitchen tool.

Interesting, looked them up, but other than the length they don’t give any dimensions. How wide is the bowl of the spoon?

[Ddanno]

I want to know more about the different hobby involving spoons that let you cram maximum cereal into one's gob