Tea spoon / coffee spoon

[Gotstuckwiththisname]

In my house, we drink a lot of hot drinks.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to have one teaspoon to stir tea and a different teaspoon to stir coffee (machine or occasionally instant. I know IABU to drink instant ). This is because I don't want coffee essence in my tea or tea essence in my coffee. I can taste it!

DH thinks this is weird and you can't taste the tea / coffee in the other drink. He regularly uses the coffee spoon to stir the tea and I can tell!

Who is BU, me or him?

[BunsOfAnarchy]

• re reads and realises it him who dont wash
  LTB!

[BunsOfAnarchy]

*reads OP
You need to LTB!
*reads they dont wash the spoons
FML!!! Only Jeremy Kyle can sort you pair!

[Ameliablue]

You can't use a coffee spoon to stir tea but how long do you leave spoons for reuse before washing. I might use the same spoon if I'm chain drinking but otherwise use a fresh spoon for a fresh cup.

[steppemum]

I only drink tea and hate coffee.
I can always taste the coffee on the tea spoon

[LooksBetterWithAFilter]

Yanbu your dh is wrong. And don’t stir my tea if you’ve stirred tea with sugar in it. One of my friends dh’s Wouldn’t believe that I could taste the sugar if he used the same spoon for my tea and hers. One day he asked me if he had and I said yes he kept asking if I was sure and I said yep absolutely then he admitted he had forgotten and stirred mine after hers he believed me after that. I hate sugar in tea and coffee and don’t have a sweet tooth at all so can taste even the tiniest bit of sugar. I can smell it in tea and coffee as well so can my friend who takes sugar so if we mix up drinks we can sniff test.

[DobbyLovesSocks]

YANBU
Cannot stand coffee so the thought of a coffee spoon in my tea makes me rage. Does he at least make the tea right? By right I mean milk in last if just tea bag in cup? If not I think you need to LTB

disclaimer I may or may not be serious about the LTB bit

[bluebellsparklypants]

Two spoons and a 3rd for sugar hate a wet sooon going into the sugar bowl

[Pinkprincess1978]

I don't drink either but when making tea and coffee say at work I always rinse the spoon before using it in the other drink. I hate coffee and think it has a strong flavour so assume it will affect the taste of the tea.

[Gotstuckwiththisname]

Cherries if you'd read my posts, you'd see that I'd written I would rinse a spoon, but DH wouldn't, so we'd still have the same issue.

[delboysskinandblister]

@tillytrotter1

some people have been know to use the end of a biro. i don't know anyone that does that

[Cherries101]

Rinse your spoons between uses.

[tillytrotter1]

Does no-one use the end of a fork to stir their coffee???

[tillytrotter1]

Do you also have 'spoons, egg'? You can tell we once lived in military accommodation! Love my spoon, egg, it's ideal for boiled eggs. We also have some grapefruit spoons that my mother bought during one of her delusions of grandeur phases, they're pointed and ideal for their purpose!

[WonderTweek]

Could you get a couple of those self stirring mugs?

I don't like the idea of having grubby spoons lying around either. People do this in my office and I'm weirdly disgusted by it (but I have a problem with using other people's cutlery so I'm aware it's probably just me).

[BBTHREE76]

Yanbu. I only drink tea and my husband only drinks coffee. We use a spoon for each as would never share.

[DonDrapersOldFashioned]

The idea of grubby spoons hanging around on a dish is unpleasant. Clean spoons every time, rinsed between drink types or if sugar has been added (I can tell if my tea has been stirred with a spoon used to add/stir sugar to other tea).

[PUGaLUGS]

Always a different spoon in this house.

[CaptainMarvelDanvers]

He’s wrong.

I can’t be doing with contamination in my drinks,

[DontCallMeCharlotte]

My mil uses the same spoon to make her coffee and my tea, it’s not nice.

Mine too. I couldn't understand why the tea she makes always tastes rank until I saw her doing it the other day. She's too lovely for me to say anything though. (I also think, because she doesn't really drink tea, her teabags are stale because I probably have an aversage of one cup of tea a week at her house and I'm the only person who does. I really have to brace myself for a cup of MIL tea

OP Your DH is wrong wrong wrong.

[SchadenfreudePersonified]

YANBU!

Cross-contamination of beverages should be an unnecessary evil in a multi-spoon household, or indeed, in a uni-spoon household which has access to fresh water.

[cakecakecheese]

Use a spoon for dishing out chili paste then leave that out for his coffee?

I hate coffee so much that any spoon that has been anywhere near it must go straight to a decontamination chamber (or the sink) so it goes nowhere near my tea.

[DorisDances]

Vote for clean spoons here- you can certainly tell if even a drop of coffee gets into your tea!

[Gotstuckwiththisname]

Run off with someone who just drinks tea.

HTH

Seems reasonable

[SavageBeauty73]

LTB