Accidentally cooked wooden spoon in sauce

[Softkittysillykitty]

Was cooking a batch of bolognaise when the phone rang. Turned sauce down and chatted for half an hour. Came back to sauce and found I'd left a wooden spoon simmering in it.

AIBU to keep on cooking? My DM told me to throw it away and start again. I think she's mad! What a waste! I mean what's the worst that could happen? It tastes a little wooden?

Who is right?

Of course it's fine!

I would love to know what your DM thinks could be dangerous about it??

Ah, this thread reminds me of this wonderful bread fail from a past series of bake off

It will absolutely fine. Not so much when I left a plastic spatula in my macorroni cheese in the oven.

Pacific my DM, bless her, has many batshit ideas that would drive the calmest person to doubt their sanity. This being one of them.

My husband just reminded me of when I left a bamboo spreader in a lasagna about 10 years ago. He said it was delicious. Haha.

Is anyone else now trying REALLY hard to channel their inner beaver?

Is anyone else now trying REALLY hard to channel their inner beaver?

Don't you need a she-wee for that?

Perhaps I have beaver fever

I thought a spoonrest was just so you don't get your counter top messy?
You keep all the mess in the spoonrest and just wash that afterwards.

I've seen many people do this though...

I do this all the time - is spoon contamination even a thing?!

SpareChangeDownTheSofa
Entire family are gathered round the screen looking at that.

DJBaggySmells Ta-daaaaa

Haha. My inner beaver thanks you Joffrey. Bolognaise was delicious if I may say so myself.

Wooden spoons are practically designed for leaving in! I have myself a nasty burn the other day after leaving metal tongs too long in the pan and forgetting the essential differences between metal and wood, mind.

I have a soon rest that's a metal frame with a silicone dish at the bottom that my MIL gave me and I use it a lot - but it goes neatly in the dishwasher, I might not if it was a fancy one that didn't!

That is genius, SpareChange!

I don't get the need for a specific spoon rest at all
I either put the spoon on the chopping board I've just used (if it was just vegetables; a used meat one, not so much) or a saucer.
I would actually hate to have another little bit of nippes cluttering up my worktop or drawer or whatever. And then you'd have to wash it?
Really, don't get it.

Nippes btw

"That is genius, SpareChange! "

That's what the hole in the pan handle is for. People, wrongly think it's there so they can hang the pans up.

I have a spoon rest as I have bastard granite worktops.
Could use a saucer though too of course but now I want to get off my arse and check which pans have spoony fucker holes in.

Birdsgrotty, really?! Well, I never!

I use a spoon rest, I have wooden surfaces, but did when I had plastic surfaces too. I would'nt want to use the chopping board as I don't want to mix cooked food and raw touching the spoon. The metal spoon rest just goes in the dishwasher afterwards, otherwise it sits next to the hob permanently (there's a little thin bit of surface goes around the chimney that the cooker fits in, and it's just a spoon rest size).