What size spoon do you use

[WhichSpoon]

to eat cereal?

Having a very important debate with the DCs, they think it is normal to use a teaspoon to eat cereal, I think most people use a dessert spoon. Dd1 says I'm just old and all the young people use the trendy teaspoon.

YABU - You must have a HUGE mouth, of course the dainty teaspoon is the way to go

YANBU - How can you fit ample cereal and milk on a teaspoon, only a dessert spoon will support a satisfying mouthful

I mean, my kids used a teaspoon for cereal because they had small mouths. My eldest has moved on to a normal dessert spoon for cereal so he can eat as move food as possible as quickly as possible. He's a teenaged boy. It was inevitable.

Small people - small spoon.
Big people - big spoon.

I use a teaspoon for stirring tea, eating a yoghurt or small pudding.

Well YES, I actually call them that too.

They live in the cutlery drawer, no-one else ever gets them out or uses them. (I live alone with occasional family and friends visiting)

But I'm lucky. I have 6 special spoons 😎😂

I do this too!

@effiesgoldwig I have three teenagers, two them substantially bigger than I am, although to be fair, not around the waist, maybe the spoon is where I'm going wrong (it's not).

Is a dessert spoon a normal sized spoon? I don't know how I've got to this stage in my life without knowing this...

If so, yes, one of them!

Definitely a fruit spoon but sometimes one of ny teen boys uses a soup spoon, no one uses teaspoons for cereal here

Yes, just your bog standard spoon, apparently twice the size of a teaspoon. A tablespoon is three times the size of a teaspoon. I have researched.

Dessert spoon obviously.

At work though we only have soup spoons and having to eat a yoghurt with a soup spoon unsettles me somehow, so I sometimes use a teaspoon instead.

I have one of these too! It sounds the same shape and has travelled with me since my childhood!

Now yoghurt, I actually do use a teaspoon, because they're tiny little pots and I fear I might splodge yoghurt everywhere if I attempted it with a bigger spoon, not sure if that makes me a hypocrite🤔

I have always considered a big spoon to be normal. However my husband uses a teaspoon.

Seems there are at least a few of us that swear by our 'Special Spoons' that actually bridge the gap in this debate

Teaspoon lmao that wpuld take forever🤣 even my 4 kids eat with a dessert spoon

NO! I only have one. I lost it once and found it in the depths of the bin and cried more than once during the search.

I've never known anyone to use a teaspoon to eat cereal that is madness 😂 would take forever to finish a bowl !!

Special Spoons are great for yoghurt pots because the pointy bit gets right into the corners.

Teaspoon is too small for cereal, but I do find dessert spoons too big. When I was a kid we had a fancy cutlery set that had fruit spoons which were in between in size and just right. But I haven’t seen them around since I’ve started buying my own cutlery.

Literally never heard of anyone using a teaspoon for cereal before, and I say that as someone who loves a teaspoon and always uses one for puddings.

I was brought up to use a teaspoon for cereal. I never realised how wrong this was until I left home at 18 and got laughed at by my housemates.

Teaspoon for things that absorb milk or it’s mixed in, like weetabix or porridge, dessert spoon for things that float in milk because you want a good ratio of milk to cereal and you don’t get enough milk with a teaspoon.

Sometimes teaspoon, sometimes desset spoon, depending on my mood, time of year, phase of Jupiter. If I've poured a bit too much milk in the bowl, I'll carefully lower the spoon in and drink the required number of spoonfuls of milk first until the right consistency is achieved.

DS14 eats cereal with a teaspoon, always has. He is the only person I’ve ever seen do it. Feel quite bad for laughing now…

Always use a teaspoon for muesli/porridge/icecream etc. DS eats icecream with a coffee spoon.

I use a dessert spoon, my teenagers use a teaspoon. Which is why I end up shouting on weekday mornings

Im 31...tea spoon for literally everything except my actual dinner or soup.