the.com/slotted spoon
the kitchen tool that keeps the prize and lets the broth go free.
means A spoon with holes or slots in its bowl, used to lift solid foods out of liquid while letting the liquid drain away.
from A plain compound of two old Germanic words. "Spoon" comes from Old English "spōn," which originally meant a chip or splinter of wood — a reminder that the first spoons were carved shavings, not metal scoops. "Slot" arrived later from Old French "esclot," meaning a hollow or groove (its early English use named the dip at the base of the throat). "Slotted" simply means "fitted with slots," and the descriptive pairing names the tool by the very feature that defines it: the gaps cut to let liquid escape.
- ancient roots
- Romans used pierced silver spoons for straining wine
- liturgical cousin
- perforated spoons strain holy water in Orthodox rituals
- absinthe twin
- slotted absinthe spoons cradle sugar over the glass
- physics flex
- holes drain liquid while drag traps the solids