Spoon
One spoon it is a utensil of table common similar in form to one spatula and that it imitates of certain way hand human. A spoon consists of a handle and a wide and concave head, which turns out practice to contain liquids. The spoon usually is used for liquids served in plate, like one soup. Generally the spoons are done of metal, but there are them also of wood, porcelain (specially in Asia) and plastic among other materials.
Different sizes exist according to the uses to which they are dedicated.
History
Have been spoons done of wood or bone in deposits that date back towards paleolítico.
In old Rome there were two types of spoon, the greater one ligula and the called minor cochlea. This last one had a handle in needle form that also served to puncture food pieces or to open mejillones etc.. Therefore it fulfilled some functions of ours possesor. Its origin was the use of the shell, the coclea, with a handle, normally of precious metal.
Until century XIX the spoon was - aside from the knife or knife often the only instrument used in the meals. The main material used in its manufacture was the wood.
Soon the industrial manufacture was begun of iron or steel covered of tin and for the wealthiest people of silver. For rich foods in sulfur like eggs or fish usually they are used golden spoons, of horn or other materials that do not react with this ingredient altering their flavor.
From their primitive form diverse specialized forms have been developed stops soups, salads, coffee etc.
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