The StoveTop Spoon Rest?

Kitchen mama that's how my son describe me. I am strict when it comes to cleanliness particularly in the kitchen where we prepare our foods. Clean foods clean living equals healthy family. My rules...Kitchen utensils that maybe of use for the later servings should be place in a saucer plate. Not inside the pan nor on top of it. If not of use anymore utensils should be place in the washing bowl in the sink with water to prevent the stains from drying. In my opinion it's not proper to just place the utensils on top of the stove or anywhere in the kitchen without having any plate. For sanitation purposes of course. Also in that way you can lessen your cleaning time. Sorry this is my style just sharing.

I have a special thing to lay the utensil on. I don't know what it's called but I have always used one of those. I think my mom did too and maybe I just picked up the habit from her. Sometimes I do lay it on the stove but my stove is usually clean so I don't worry about germs and I always clean the stove after using it so there won't be a mess left behind.

I don't cook very much, but I certainly would hate to see the spoon or stirrer on the stovetop because I'm the one who would have to clean it! My partner, who does the cooking at home, usually puts his stirrer on a dish on the kitchen counter. That, or sometimes he puts it on top of the chopping board where he chopped ingradients earlier.

When we were at the apartments, we had a plastic spoon rest from some dollar store - it lasted for years!! Well, one edge of it melted when it got too close to the burner - and that perturbed me for the longest time. So finally I got rid of it and just stuck the spoon in the center of the stove (it was clean). But now that we have our own stove in our own house, I WANT to buy a stainless steel spoon rest soon "just because" but for now I'm using a small plate. I don't want the stove getting dirty (I'm making it a point to keep the stove extra clean since it's OURS). Let's see, a shoe?? Yah, a new one would be better - an old one might make the food end up tasting like feet!

I will never leave my stirrer on the stovetop because it's so dirty, full of germs. Even though it's in my home, it ought to be clean since we are wiping, cleaning it on a daily basis, but i just don't like the idea of resting my stirrer on it. I will always have something for stirrer, such as a ladle stand, or a bowl if i'm cooking soup. If i'm frying something, i would simply leave my stirrer in the wok,pot for a few minutes before i carry on with the stirring.

hello the pageturner! i don't think i could use shoes, especially the lovely attractive red shoes you have pictured here...the psychoartist would like to have a pair of shoes like those...do you know where i might find them...personally, the psychoartist just uses a large measuring glass for a spoon rest...it is convenient as for some reason the psychoartist always uses more than one spoon when cooking and the measuring glass cup has room for all the spoons....like a dirty spoon bouquet...you see...

i have a ceramic one that can be washed with the dishes (which we do by hand) after each meal.

Good question..I mostly place it on anywhere my hands lay on, but stove top. I am also kinda cleanliness freak. I'll try to balance it on the lid of a sauce pan, on top of the pressure cooker's lid, put it in a glass if the glass happen to be just around. If it drops I'll pick it up clean it with the running water.

Sometimes I use the spoon rest but I don't use it as much as I really should. If I am in a hurry when I am cooking sometimes I will just put it down on the stove which is not very smart of me becuase my stove top is kind of hard to clean, so I don't know why I do that. Sometimes I will use a small bread plate to the put the spoon down, but if I plan ahead and have plenty of time I will pull out the spoon rest and use it.

I always try to balance the spoon or spatula on top of a nearby saucepan lid. Naturally that doesn't often work. I'm sure I have quite a large collection of utensils behind my stove now. It does save on washing up liquid though!

well, i use a small cup or another plate to put the spoon there , sometime if we use a wooden bigger spoon to stir something and put the spoon on top of the pot , we seldom use plastic spoon , all spoon are either metal or wood made, so that it will not leak plastic or melanim into the hot stuffs as it is poison.Sometime , we just use once and put it into the sink to wash.

hi dear PageTurner, either I use a folded kitchen tissue as the spoon rest or, more often, one of the little saucers. One piece more to wash when it comes to the dishes afterwards but environment friendly unlike the kitchen tissues.

I don't like to put the spatula or spoon for stirring the food at the stove top because the sauce will leave a drip on the stove top. I always use a small bowl to place the spatula.

It would be nice to have one of those trays made for spoons and the like, but I don't at the moment, so I place it on the stove. I'm not worried about the mess, as much as the heat. If the stove is on the spoon will get real hot, and hard to hold. I might invest in one of those spoon trays for the stove.

I keep my stove-top clean, so any germs that find their way on to it are the germs I need (or they won't mess with me ). If you want to, you can spray your desktop with disinfectant spray before you put down your spoon. Are you 'one of those people' who wash your hands every half-hour or more-often?