Wooden Honey Dipper

01 · HOW IT IS USED

Sink it, turn it, pour the right thread

The grooves of the head pick up the honey and release it little by little as you turn your wrist: you lay the thread over the toast, the dessert or the tea, and the jar and the tablecloth stay clean. It works best with fluid honey; if it has crystallised, warm the jar a little so it runs between the rings. And the long handle matters more than it seems: in a kilo jar a short spoon sinks and has to be fished out.

02 · WHICH OF THE TWO

Eighteen centimetres or ten, depending on the jar

We carry two wooden spoons. This 18 cm one, in beech, is the table spoon: the one for the half-kilo or kilo jar that stays in view. The 10 cm one, in guatambú, belongs to the 125 or 250 g jar and the gift pack, where an 18 cm spoon would stick half out. And if what you want is to hand out tastes at a fair, that is the disposable spoon, single use.

03 · CARE

By hand, and dry before it goes back in the jar

Solid wood: hand washing and immediate drying. No dishwasher and no soaking, which raise the grain and open cracks where honey stays. Dry it as well before putting it back in the jar: honey is hygroscopic and the water that comes in on the utensil is what can ferment the surface. With that minimum of care a beech spoon lasts years and ages well.

04 · BEFORE YOU BUY

Sold by the unit. A detail that sits well next to a jar of honey as a gift.