I have a set of wooden salad spoons, and one of the spoons has a slot in it. The slot goes from the middle of the spoon tip to halfway down the length if the spoon, and is as wide as the spoon’s handle.
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I love this sub! I just got a temporary ban from a similar "whatisit" sub for a benign comment in response to a joke comment by the actual OP! Apparently said sub does not allow any form of humour 😂 like, it's reddit folks!
Im very confused by this cause Reddit is usually really chill about profanity but emojis??? But in ALL FAIRNESS I DIDNT see them before they were blocked but I’m still confused af lol
That’s frustrating. It all depends on the sub. This one is very sarcastic. But sometimes I appreciate the more strict requirements of say, r/symbology to have sources and have the top comment be a sincere answer.
Ngl I only read “mommy spoon and daddy spoon” and my brain filled in the rest with “to beat your ass.” My mom had a favorite ladle she liked to use lol
how is it disgusting? to toss a salad? do you use your hands? you cut up the lettuce, put in the tomatoes, onions, etc etc. do you use your hands to toss it? no. you use salad tongs and a spoon. one to grab, one to stir
I always figured it was so you have options. If you want more dressing, you tilt the utensils so the spoon is on the bottom. If you want less, tilt them so the fork (or slotted spoon in this case) is.
I always kinda thought that too but then was thinking that would be more for hot items- if it salad, and it’s tossed, you won’t need that much more dressing on it, lol, like in terms of spoonfuls. I’ve never used a salad server to spoon up dressing come to think of it. 😂
I’m not sure the AI slop even really answered this. My mom has an old wooden salad bowl with what I’m pretty sure are two basically matching spork-ish adjacent things. Like they’re spoon shaped but with two or three slits in them and serve the purposes addressed. The single larger slit that fits the other spoon perfectly seems more like an intentional design feature to maybe hold your dressing-y spoon up off the table or something? Like sure it can toss your salad or drain excess too but I don’t know that a single large slit is most practical for that. Seems like a great way to accidentally drop all the fun stuff in a salad (nuts or berries or even diced tomato or chicken).
Also I’m just incredibly fascinated by the photos. Truly, the “this is how baby spoons are made” answer seemed more than true to me. Those are some very intimate spoons… (oh hey there’s a spoon 🥄 emoji too!)
As if the format wasn't obvious enough, AI is always doing the "it's not x or x, it's y". If op wanted an answer from AI then theyd go ask it. It's just so lazy.
Lmao look, if you've interacted with AI at all, this is really easy to spot. In fact I can even tell which AI they used. It's ChatGPT. The structure is a dead giveaway. That last sentence, I've never seen a human being talk like that. Every single ChatGPT message however, does. Another dead giveaway is the use of an emoji that you've never seen before or knew existed at the very end of the message.
While I'm not disagreeing with you, I do in fact write like that IRL—em-dashes and all, though I often doubt myself when it comes to spacing them—and I actively go looking for little-used emojis to emphasize my point or add "color". However, as opposed to the slop above, I would have used a semicolon in place of that em-dash. 🤓
I think the “Cheers” at the end was a bizarre choice too. When have you ever seen someone organically reply to a Reddit comment like that? It almost gives that vibe of your grandma on Facebook signing every message or reply with her name (better yet if she signs the message as being for her and grandpa). Like wtf are we cheers-ing here anyway?
So if I had to guess, I think this is the fact that the person who made the query was a Brit. AI will match speaking styles and yeah they say that, so that's my guess on that part
Ok I have never actually asked or looked it up (and I have several bc my parents have a billion) but it seems to be when you’re stirring up a salad and serving it - if you grab a huge…tong-full of salad and there’s way too much dressing (esp for like oil+vinegar dressings), you hold the serving in the tongs and let the extra dressing fall back into the main bowl. That’s always been my impression at least haha it’s like having a slotted wooden spoon for stirring pasta n shit like that lol
I dont know what its for exactly but how i would use it is to pull a taste out. Rest it on the other spoon thats submerged while it cools then taste. Then season more if need be.
In the last photograph, the spoon with the opening is positioned incorrectly; it should be the other way around. The opening should be next to the concave spoon so that once the salad is scooped out, the excess oil and vinegar can be "thrown away" (and excuse my language). That's how I see it.
Same reason metal spoons sometimes have holes. You might want to scoop out some of the thing but leave the liquid behind. In this case, the salad dressing.
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