Hi Dan
It was great to meet you - and your daughter. Hope the trip to Paris went well. All I did was to give you contact details so it was great that the local associations were so welcoming. A great talk and that was an amazing range of honeys you brought. Very interesting and instructive, and I also learned a new way to do honey tasting which I'll probably use on a market stall. It is time to move on from plastic spoons to wooden toothpicks! The other advantage is that you use a very small amount of honey each time so these 1.5 oz jars last a long time (and the jars you took home may last forever!).
G.
Flat wooden toothpicks. Dip, twirl, taste. At the Dundee Flower Show and other occasions I've used plastic spoons and then washed them for the next time or the next day at the Dundee show (and sifted out the unwashable ones with lipstick on and the split ones). Much easier to use disposable wooden toothpicks. I see them at £10 for 2,500.
Toothpicks!!!!
You Scots sure do live up to your reputation
I use wooden tea stirrers, slightly bigger and about £4.50/1000. Extravagant lot us "Southerners"
On the flat sticks and honey tasting. A friend gave me a sample of those long sticks (and the Yorkshire bisected version) last winter. Oh dear, I seem to be joining in that neighbour-baiting activity. Anyway, I'm not convinced (yet). There is that taste of wood and a roughness on the tongue that isn't that attractive. Do you get softwood and birch versions of these flat sticks? Brushwoodnursery's toothpicks seemed so much nicer. The ones I've seen online ('Diamond') are made from birchwood.
I use plastic disposable hot drink stirrers, not teaspoons, as I also think the wooden sticks (I've tried) feel a bit furry on the tongue. Perhaps not so environmentally friendly (though that's not a given - paper bags vs plastic bags favours the latter from energy in for production/distribution and recycling) but they are recyclable. They're big enough to get the 'taste' but not so big that a jar of honey disappears in minutes. One downside is that they're too flexible to use with set honey.
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