The Roux Spoon.............


 
Rolf Jacobsen

Rolf Jacobsen

R.I.P. 9/28/2024
So Nancy & I are making gumbo today. As usual, I end up making the roux. So I’m staring and stirring with/at this spoon, (and drinking wine), for twenty minutes and it occurs to me just how often I’ve done this. I’m sure we all have “special tools for special jobs” but this one has developed some “character. Take a look at how the one edge is worn, (this took years), and of course the stains. Nancy is from Argentina and has a special pan for making the crepes for empanadas. It’s beat up and should have been thrown out years ago but when it comes to making them so thin you can see through them, it has to be this pan. Anyone else have stuff like this?
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Oh, gosh yes, in fact, I had a wooden spoon much like yours that was perhaps even more flattened. Last year my wife have me a new set of wooden utensils because mine were so bad. Luckily, the oldest stuff, cast iron just keeps going and going.

A muffin pan from my mother that looks like seasoned cast iron, but just a plain ole tin blackened with use and age. Nothing sticks to it.........................d
 
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sure, butt i haven't given it a second of thought.
it's there when you need it and if it's not, the dog must have it:p
 
I definitely agree with Mr L on this. Never really think of my favorite tool, just that it is always there when I need it and if not, then my wife must have hid it! ;)
 
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