How To Make A Wood Serving Spoon
All wood can be used but fruit tree are best.
How to make a wood serving spoon. Whittle very slowly and feel with your fingers until you have roughly half a centimetre of wood left at the bottom of each hollow. Washing Your Wooden Spoons. Instead hand wash your spoons or any wooden utensil really including silicone spatulas with wooden handles with soap and warm water.
With the dimensions of this board I should be able to make up to 4 spoons. Draw a rough outline of the desire spoon on a piece of wood. It needs to be newly cut.
Pick a location on the board that will allow you to get multiple spoons. Then dry them off and set them out to finish air drying. Mark a pattern of a spoon on a board.
If you want them to last keep them out of the dishwasher. Thats a very good wood for spoonmaking. I used a store-bought spoon and used it to trace out the pattern I wanted.
The first step in constructing your wooden spoon is choosing the size and species of the wood. Try My Wooden Spoon Butter. Then it will be wet and workable for 2-4 weeks.
Its made from a blend of mineral oil and beeswax so it holds up longer and does a better job of sealing wood. The size of the initial block of wood will be dependent on how big of spoon you plan to construct. For this spoon Im using applewood.
