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?

Knives, forks, big spoons (soup), small spoons (tea, coffee, dessert), plus but bought seperately if and when needed: cake forks (small with a slightly sharp side to it ), fish knives, mokka / espresso spoons (very small)
The first four are in every set (DGM , DM , ours) the rest is added when needed.

MyDcAreMarvel
And yes, a fork is used like spoon if you eat meat and potatoes / dumplings / rice - in my culture, so do not count me - I am foreign

We use soup spoons.

A dessert spoon does the same job - scoop soup and transfers to mouth. All of you who can’t “imagine” using anything else must be quite snobby.

I'm beginning to wonder how I've managed to eat soup all my life without a soup spoon. To hear some people talk on this thread it's impossible to eat it with a dessert spoon, and yet many of us do. Clearly we are uncultured swines 😂

Of course you can use a dessert spoon - but IME they're just not as good for the task. And a teaspoon is possible though it seems too small to be practical.

I'm baffled by a couple of people claiming to use a knife and fork though! The first shouldn't be needed and the second doesn't hold liquid.

A fork just kidding. A dessert spoon. I just have the 4 pieces of cutlery available. Which I thought was the norm, apart from in restaurants. Ohh how wrong I was!

We always used soup spoons as a child - Mum and Dad inherited our cutlery from our Grandparents. When I set up home I deliberately bought spoons of a similar size and shape. Pudding spoons just don't hold enough soup and I can't be faffed eating in lots of of tiny sips. I'm too greedy for that!

@Mummabearmilf

This Is madness

You seem to be disproportionately bothered by this.

Most frustrating way of eating soup was in the staff room at the school I taught in when only forks were available.....

Posh soup spoons in our wedding canteen and soup spoons from the kitchen drawer set from Woolies. Grew up with soup spoons and we definitely weren't well off -FSM at school. They just do the job!

We also use them if eating pasta - they are ideal for twirling spaghetti!!

A tablespoon? 😆 those of you saying it has to be a special soup spoon, do you have different soup spoons suited to different soup consistencies - like a thick minestrone v a smooth leek soup? 😆

Soup spoons- it's something we're weirdly anal about.

I've just realised only our our original set has soup spoons - the set we bought to replace it doesn't, so we're using different spoons from the rest of the cutlery if we're having soup.

I have just had some soup and made a point of digging a soup spoon out from underneath the dessert spoons

Normal spoon, I always find soup spoons really difficult to eat from, too big for my mouth and I end up spilling soup everywhere!

Our soup spoons are also used as dessert spoons if we don't have enough - but our dessert spoons are never used for soup. Soup spoons are a much better shape for sipping soup from and yes, used with a fork, they are a better shape for twirling spaghetti against than a dessert spoon.

We grew up using soup spoons. My current cutlery set only has dessert spoons so for every day use I use those. At Christmas we get out the good silver, which does have a proper range of spoon options.

We had soup spoons growing up and weren't posh or well off. Now although I'm poor I could afford a pack of soup spoons if I wished but wouldn't really have space for them in the drawer.

We have soup spoons and I use them if available but if not I use a dessert spoon, that's fine.

@LouLou198

Normal spoon, I always find soup spoons really difficult to eat from, too big for my mouth and I end up spilling soup everywhere!

You don't stick soup spoons in your mouth, you sip the soup from the side.

You don't stick soup spoons in your mouth, you sip the soup from the side.

You can't sip chunky soup though. Could get messy trying to tip most of the soups I eat through your lips 😆

I tried to eat soup with a teaspoon the other day and it took so long I gave up :o

for chunky sups, sip the liquid then ewst the chunks dry off the top (provably uncouth)

If you do an image search in soup it is shown with a dessert spoon in a lot of images. We use dessert spoons. Not embarrassed - it's what we got with our cutlery set which was a gift when we got our first house together. I know what a soup spoon in. Have used them at restaurants. Refuse to let judgements based on cutlery define me, though.

I use a soup spoon. However I remember my late FIL telling me that his Victorian parents were very sniffy about modern soup spoons (the round sort)- for them, a soup spoon was a large oval spoon like a giant dessert spoon, the sort of thing we now use as a serving spoon (and indeed I do have a few of GPIL’s soup spoons which I use like this). Fashions come and go.

Old school here. Soup spoons are used when the occasion demands it.

Tablespoon. Though currently with a teaspoon as I'm post surgery and have to eat very slowly and that's easier with a teaspoon. I've been known to drink soup, from a cup.