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6 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With The Backs of Spoons

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It drives you absolutely mad doesn't it? Why does every spoon, whether it's a teaspoon or a soup ladle, come with that round part that sits underneath the spoon part?   You will be surprised to hear that it's no accident that spoons have a back to them, and far from being the useless, disappointment that it might appear to be, the backs of spoons actually have many uses. Want to get the most out of your spoons? Of course you don't! 1. Squashing things Probably the last thing on your mind when you are wielding a spoon in the vicinity your latest meal food, after remembering your washing is on the line, is the question: "how am I going to squash things?" Nobody brings a rolling pin, garlic crusher or mallet to the dinner table, at least not in the last couple of centuries. At least, not in western cultures. Not in this economy. And yet, the painful reality of many foods is that a light squash would do it, and you, the world of good (in all the possible universes