Do you "lick the spoon"?!


Question: Is that even healthy?? I always thought it wasn't until I heard of the concept.


Answers: Is that even healthy?? I always thought it wasn't until I heard of the concept.

Yep, all the time. Let's me know if I forgot an ingredient (salt, sugar, etc). But I don't double-dip! And I've never, in my whole life, gotten sick from licking a spoon of batter or dough that contained raw eggs.

Only plastic dixie spoons. Not when I am cooking other peoples food. And I never dip twice!!!

yes

Spoons and beaters alike.

Heck yeah i do spoon, beaters, and bowl. I love batter........... so taste

Yes I do. I'm not a germaphobe, but I don't worry much as long as the food will be cooked after I stick my finger in it. The cooking gets rid of germs. Health codes only require gloves for food that will NOT be cooked after you touch it.

Yup...been licking the spoon and beaters after making cakes, etc. my entire life and it hasn't killed me yet!

Honey that is the healthiest thing you can do! Absolutely! Especially when you have someone special to share it with. You take a lick, they take a lick and ---- well you get the idea!

When I was a kid I did, not anymore.

depends what I am cooking but I never put the spoon back in whatever it is that I am making since most of the time I am cooking food that others will eat too.

Honey, I do more than lick it, I eat it. I'd rather have batter than a cooked cake. I usually just make the batter and eat it. I hardly ever make a cake. Give me batter any day. LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One good lick wont kill ya.

In the strictest sense, we all "lick the spoon"?
American Heritage Dictionary:
"lick" to pass the tongue over or along.

In the context of cooking, NEVER "Lick" your cooking spoons or place "licked" cooking spoon back into any food you are preparing.

Use a different, fresh, clean spoon for each ingredient when cooking. Example: don't use the pickel spoon to remove mayo from the mayonnaise jar.

I use tasting spoons when cooking. A fresh, clean one for each and every taste test. No double dipping or using cooking spoons for taste testing.
(Get a sample, step away from the food in the cooking container.) The contents of each tasting spoon is swallowed in its entirety, then the tasting spoon is placed into the dish washer or a pan of water reserved for dirty utensil use until I'm ready to place dirty utensils in the dishwasher. Use santi-temp!

Certain unpleasant illinesses can be passed from supposedly clean dishes that are not santized. "Mono" is one that comes to mind.

Once I watched an extra large tv chef "taste test" with the cooking spoon that he was using. He then dumped the residual food in the spoon back into cooking pot and stirred the contents with the same spoon. No wonder he had a weight problem. Who would want to share his microbs?
I wouldn't eat anything he cooked on a bet!

By all means "lick your spoon" within the context of your own personal serving of food at a meal or snack.

However; "Taste test" food with the saftey of others in mind when you're the cook!

I always lick the spoon. Sometimes the batter tastes better than the baked food. Yummy.

i don't even get the chance my kids call dibs but i use to!!!!!!

ALWAYS but......never twice!! no double dipping here!!!





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