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?

Most images attached to English text online will be from America and they do not use the round soup spoon, but an oval shaped one.

From the left, teaspoon, soup spoon, dessert spoon, tablespoon/serving spoon.

I like soup spoons, but only because I grew up with them. I've managed to discard the habit of eating fish with fish knives and forks, which my parents used to do. Never owned steak knives, but then we rarely have steak.

I'm very fond of soup. My plans to lose a shedload of weight in January (which will, of course, work this January, unlike every other January in living memory) are founded on making and eating a lot of soup and somehow not ending up eating a lot of bread with it. Hmm.

Soup spoons.
My DS17 even went looking for a cake fork yesterday, we must have done a half decent job with him.

Obviously to eat cake and not soup🤣

We use soup spoons for soup.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

I like soup spoons, but only because I grew up with them. I've managed to discard the habit of eating fish with fish knives and forks, which my parents used to do. Never owned steak knives, but then we rarely have steak.

I'm very fond of soup. My plans to lose a shedload of weight in January (which will, of course, work this January, unlike every other January in living memory) are founded on making and eating a lot of soup and somehow not ending up eating a lot of bread with it. Hmm.

I bought a soup maker a month ago. It’s not totally automatic but as a result it doubles as a large liquidiser or hot chocolate maker ( it has three levels of heat and a slow stir function). I thought it might not get much use but DS17 uses it to make his whey powder shake supplements, he is currently doing PE a-level and putting into practice some of the nutrition he is learning.

I have literally just had some home-made thick & chunky turkey and veg soup, served in a mug and eaten with a soup spoon.

In this house we have (some normal, some 'best'):

Dinner knives and forks
Dessert forks and spoons
Soup spoons
Tablespoons
Bigger tablespoons
Teaspoons
Coffee spoons
Grapefruit spoons
Teaspoons with a long handle
Butter knives
Steak knives
Cake forks
Serving spoons
Cheese knives
Pickle fork

@eagerlywaitingfor

I have literally just had some home-made thick & chunky turkey and veg soup, served in a mug and eaten with a soup spoon.

In this house we have (some normal, some 'best'):

Dinner knives and forks
Dessert forks and spoons
Soup spoons
Tablespoons
Bigger tablespoons
Teaspoons
Coffee spoons
Grapefruit spoons
Teaspoons with a long handle
Butter knives
Steak knives
Cake forks
Serving spoons
Cheese knives
Pickle fork

You forgot the Cat Food Fork.

I think most grown ups have that (if they have owned cats/dogs at some point in their lives), don't they?

A soup spoon.

Yes, we have 2 cat food forks. One of my friends uses normal forks.

Depends on the meal - hearty kitchen supper soup as the main event of the meal - everyday bowl and dessert spoon
Ad hoc we've just come in from the freezing cold and are having a thin soup to warm up - mug
Formal dinner with a soup course - the soup plates from the best dinner service and soup spoons from the canteen of good cutlery.

My DC prefer soup from a mug eaten (slurped noisily) with a teaspoon.

Dessert spoons for everyday. But my good silver is from the French side of my family, and French soup spoons are a different shape,like a bigger, deeper dessert spoons, rather than the round British soup spoon shape. I think they are the same as a tablespoon for measuring purposes.