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aem wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
> [snip]
> > Anyone have one of those tasting spoons? You dip one bowl
> > into the soup, tilt it and it flows through a channel into another
> > bowl you can taste. Hardly seems worth it, and I know I'd be
> > wearing it.

>
> A reasonable way is to use two spoons, large and small. The large
> stirring spoon scoops up the whatever from the pot, then the teaspoon
> dips out a taste from it. Stirring spoon goes back to work, teaspoon
> gets an immediate rinse at the sink. I don't double dip chips in dip,
> either. -aem

I use your method-when I've worked in restaurants, we had little
plastic tasting spoons that we just tossed after tasting. Now I have a
steaming hot water faucet that rinses well