Tea spoon / coffee spoon

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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?

Rinse it before you use it.

buy a special teaspoon

and a special coffee spoon with a bean on the end.

that are quite different.

In another country, I was once prescribed medicine as "two coffee spoons twice a day" and discovered that a coffee spoon was considered to be 10ml

But a teaspoon is 5ml

I don't know why.

Piglet you are genius. You may have solved my problem!!!!

if only they weren't £55.....

Tea spoons are fine for stirring tea. Save coffee spoons for measuring out your life.

I use different spoons too, as they go straight in the dishwasher anyway but if I'm making a tea and a coffee at the same time I give the spoon a rinse before stirring the second.

You need a coffee spoon, a tea spoon and an espresso spoon just in case.

I don’t notice either way around but I have a friend who does so make sure I stir her tea before my coffee.

I use clean spoons every time as I drink coffee with no sugar and DH drinks tea with sugar. He hates it if the spoons get shared as he can taste the coffee over the tea and I hate it as I can taste the sugar over the coffee.

Black filter coffee. No added spoon.

You just shuffle the coffee in the filter add off the hot water, lift out the filter. No spoon required!
These are great. I have one that was bought for tea but have only ever used it for coffee. Didn't pay £5 but this is the design. makes great no spoon coffee

www.amazon.co.uk/d/Tea-Filters/Finum-Brewing-Basket-Permanent-Filter/B000I68NCS/ref=lp_3544855031_1_14?s=kitchen&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1546903020&sr=1-14

If anyone stirs my tea with the coffee spoon I go mad. YANBU.

Run off with someone who just drinks tea.

HTH

They are a different: a coffee spoon is smaller than a teaspoon. Some coffee spoons are round.

Here we are

Teapot spoons

Buy a pack of six and flog the others to Snetters.

LTB

*Run off with someone who just drinks tea.

HTH*

Seems reasonable

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

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.

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.

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.

He’s wrong.

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

Always a different spoon in this house.

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).

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