Millennium Canteen

Alfred Pain - Soup Spoon and Dessert Spoon
Desert Spoon: This has been designed to carry out the various requirements of cutting, scooping, chasing slippery bits around the plate that are often needed when no fork is provided. It has also been designed to provide a light-weight spoon that can be made without excessive forging. The aesthetic is such that it can rest in any of the four planes. This example has been hand-made, but there is no reason that the design should not be transferred to a manufacturing technique.
Soup spoon: The spoon shape is the result of carefully researching the action of actually drinking soup with a spoon, and gathering the soup into the spoon. The shape relates to the shapes of soup plates and bowls and to the various types of soup, broth, consommés, cremes and goulash type potages where there may even be pieces to be cut.
The British tend to drink from the side of the spoon, but on the continent of Europe it is more usual to use the front of the bowl. The spoon is intended as a Euro spoon.
Size: 18 cm

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