What do you use to eat soup?

[Stilton1]

Just wondering...

I've grown up with a full(-ish) set of cutlery - table knives, table forks, dessert spoons, soup spoons, dessert knives, dessert forks, teaspoons. And I use them all, because they've always been there.

Many sets of cutlery only contain table knives, table forks, dessert spoons and teaspoons, so I'm assuming this is now the norm and I'm just a bit behind the times. I think that perhaps round soup spoons are a British thing and not used in other European countries?

May I please ask, which items of cutlery do you have in your home? Of those, which do you use? And, finally, what do you use to eat soup when you have company?

Always a soup spoon. When I bought new matching cutlery I made sure fo get a set which included soup spoons. It was harder to find a set with them than I expected.

We use soup spoons. I’m old and British. When I left home at 18 my gran gave me 2 of her soup spoons so I wouldn’t be without them. I still have them and they are my favourites and I use them regularly, they always make me remember my lovely kind gran. The rest of the family use the ordinary soup spoons that match the rest of the cutlery.

I use a soup spoon because I bought a canteen of cutlery off a local selling site for £20 and it has knives, forks, cake forks, desert spoons, soup spoons, tablespoons teaspoons.

I grew up in a house with soup spoons but have never had the spare money to buy aa set since I left home. So I use 'normal' tablespoons now.
My mum has inherited a load of cutlery from her grandparents. We don't know what half of it is for.

I bought some of the wooden and China spoons used in Chinese restaurants. I prefer the wooden ones. In fact am planning to go to a major Chinese supermarket soon hoping to buy some more.

And to answer your question OP I have a full set of cutlery too and we use all of it on a daily basis. If we have guests I wouldn’t use my gran’s soup spoons, I would use the ordinary ones so as to match!

Always, always a soup spoon.

Non of mine match because you can't easily buy matching spoons anymore unless they are part of an expensive canteen.

I have dessert spoons and soup spoons in the same section of my everyday cutlery drawer. I much prefer the latter for soup, also would use them for eating things like baked beans, and for 'pasta twiddling'.

How the heck do a couple of people on the thread manage to eat soup with a teaspoon? Doesn't the soup get cold before you can finish it?

I'm Irish and always use a soup spoon.

I didn't grow up in a house that could afford different spoons for soup and pudding. So I don't have them now because I don't care enough about spoons.

I now want some soup spoons.

Soup spoon! I've got knives, forks, dessert spoons, soup spoons, dessert knives and forks, teaspoons, coffee spoons and cake forks. No fish cutlery or steak knives though!

A soup spoon. I also have cakeforks.

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I didn't grow up in a house that could afford different spoons for soup and pudding. So I don't have them now because I don't care enough about spoons.

And there'll be plenty of families like that today.

Some can barely afford food, let alone separate spoons.

Yet you'll always come across one or two posters who'll 'have no idea some people don't use them' and instead make ignorant remarks about table manners.

Desert spoon. Wouldn't occur to me to buy different spoons for eating soup.

A soup spoon, can't eat soup with a dessert spoon it's the wrong shape, if spill it.
Cake is eaten with a dessert fork. Puddings and custard with a dessert spoon.
I'm English, not posh or anything though.

With my homemade lentil soup I've been known to use a fork.

I use normal dessert spoons but do have just the 1 soup spoon from a set my dnan gave my dm many years ago it has many uses just not using it to eat soup

I have my grandmother's soup spoons. She was dirt poor and grew up in the slums. I find eating soup with a dessert spoon makes me feel weird.

Forks are excellent shovels though and I do enjoy a good shovelling of scoff. I know how to use a fork but rarely do!

Dessert spoons. We do have a full canteen of solid silver cutlery which contains soup spoons and fish knives, serving spoons, serving forks and fish slice things (a wedding present to my grandparents in the 1930s) but it's at the back of the cloak cupboard in the hall and never been used ever I don't think. I don't think anyone uses things like that now apart from at formal, posh events.

Hmmm, I had to look up soup spoons. You never see them in Canada. All cutlery sets come with 'tablespoons' which I would use for soup. Sometimes in a restaurant you will get a rounder soup spoon, but they aren't standard.

But we grew up with proper a proper silverware set, and British Mum, so I must have used soup spoons just don't remember the difference. I will have to ask my sister who has the silverware set.

I find it odd though that you would have dessert with a big spoon. What would you have with it? Cake would be with a fork, ice cream you would use a smaller spoon, or am I wrong?

We use table / dessert spoons, I think they are the same thing.

I don’t know anyone under the age of 70 that owns soup spoons. I’ve always just used a dessert spoon…

I’m feeling a bit uncultured now though .

Soup spoon or table spoon, I'm not fussy really.

However I'm rather confused about the term 'dessert spoon'- is this the same thing as a tablespoon?

I eat dessert with a teaspoon- makes it last longer!

Table/dessert spoon here 🤷🏼‍♀️