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When scooping something like peanut butter/nutella out the jar do you scoop out with a spoon first then spread it with a knife or only use a knife for both scooping and spreading?

After 12years I've only just realised DH does it the first way and I'm questioning our whole relationship! That's just making more dishes to be cleaned

Only knife

For marmite, peanut butter and spreads both chocolate and otherwise, I use a knife if preparing the bread in the kitchen.

Jam and honey - use teaspoons.

If eating at the table and therefore preparing toast/bread at the table, a teaspoon is used to place the jam/spread on the side of my plate.

just a knife

BUT not allowed to get butter in the jar,
My granny used to 'clean' her knife by sliding it into the thickness of the slice of toast, and then it was clean to use in the jam!

A knife only if only one dip into the jar is required.

No double dipping as you’ll put bread or toast crumbs into the jar. The jar should last weeks. Bread products go mouldy quickly. You therefore don’t want breadcrumbs in your spread as you will get mould inside the jar.

Therefore if it’s a double dip you require I’d use a spoon to dip twice and a knife to scrape the spread off the spoon onto the bread. Then spread it

There is method in the madness. PS I have teaspoons, coffee spoons, soup spoons and dessert spoons but ex-dp would only use teaspoons for everything except soup, for which he used dessert spoons. Weirdo.

Jam, marmalade, runny honey, lemon curd etc: spoon.

Stiff honey, peanut butter, marmite etc: knife.

Just the knife

I use the knife only. Less thing to wash!

Knife.