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?

[VanGoghsDog]

Rinse it before you use it.

[PigletJohn]

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.

[Gotstuckwiththisname]

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

[Gotstuckwiththisname]

if only they weren't £55.....

[ElizabethinherGermanGarden]

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

[AllTakenSoRubbishUsername]

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.

[BouleBaker]

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

[Tumbleweed101]

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

[DanielRicciardosSmile]

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.

[delboysskinandblister]

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&ie=UTF8&qid=1546903020&sr=1-14&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

[Warpdrive]

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

[SissySpacekAteMyHamster]

Run off with someone who just drinks tea.

HTH

[FevertreeLight]

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

[PigletJohn]

Here we are

Teapot spoons

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

[SavageBeauty73]

LTB

[Gotstuckwiththisname]

Run off with someone who just drinks tea.

HTH

Seems reasonable

[DorisDances]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[CaptainMarvelDanvers]

He’s wrong.

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

[PUGaLUGS]

Always a different spoon in this house.

[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).

[BBTHREE76]

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