Wooden Kitchen Utensils

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The Right Wooden Kitchen Utensils for your Cooking Style

Wooden kitchen utensils can greatly increase the appeal of the home kitchen environment. There are a wide variety of utensils made from good quality wood that can be found for most people's serving needs. These include wok tools, spatulas, ladles, butter knives, tongs, salad forks, whisks and spice spoons.

This lens goes into detail about the options and benefits of wooden kitchen utensils. It also offers a few points to consider before buying the right utensils for you and your cooking style.

Preparation is Key to a Successful Meal

Choosing the right wooden kitchen utensils

It's important to have a fully stocked kitchen before you try to cook up a fabulously sophisticated meal for friends and family. My gosh, that's especially the case if you're cooking for your mother-in-law. Therefore, it is sound advice to always be well prepared when it comes to kitchen utensils and in this case, wooden kitchen utensils.

One of the most frustrating things to happen when preparing a meal is to run out of either ingredients or the right utensils. You realise you don't have a spatula or that your prized ladles have a crack in them and leave your onion soup, as well as your pride, all over the floor.

In many cases you'll find ways around these problems but why let it come to this point? Preparation is key. Make sure you have a list of all the kitchen utensils you'll need just like you do when figuring out what ingredients you'll have to buy. Good quality wooden utensils for the kitchen will not only help the food taste better but will relieve a lot of the stress involved when cooking for guests.

Olive Wood Salad Serving Sets

Wooden kitchen utensils made by artisans in Kenya

Olive Wood Salad Serving Set with Dots Cow Bone Handle
Olive Wood Salad Serving Set with Petals Cow Bone Handle


These olive wood salad serving set comes from the African nation of Kenya. Skilled artisans have handmade these wooden kitchen utensils which include a cow bone inlay on the handles. You can see the delightful geomatric pattern on the handles in the images above.

Kenyan handicrafts are popular worldwide and provide a major source of income and employment in the East African nation. In fact, handicrafts made in Kenya bring kenyan heritage to the outside world.

Each of these wooden serving sets is approx 12 inches long and are made from genuine olive wood.

Wooden Kitchen Utensils - Things to Consider

Impress your mother-in-law with some nice wooden kitchen utensils

People like to cook different things largely depending on their location and cultural background. Where one cook will be lost without her Wok Tool, another would think you were being potty mouthed by even mentioning this wooden kitchen utensil. Instead he would collapse in a heap of exasperation if he was without his wooden Spaghetti Fork.

Another point to consider is the mix and matching qualities of your wooden kitchen utensil sets. Just like silverware and fine china, it's both aesthetically pleasing and enjoyable to collect utensils that are of a similar quality and material.

It might be pushing the boundaries to have a bright red plastic fork with an understated wooden knife but they are never going to win any 'good taste' competitions as a pair together. Of course, I'm assuming your food will every time!

You will also need to consider your overall kitchen décor. Wooden kitchen utensils particularly suit rustic type interiors such as the French Kitchen style or English Cottage look. However, they can easily be incorporated into more modern looking kitchens and provide an aesthetically pleasing accompaniment to your existing interior design. With a few good extras, you can have your mother-in-law fawning over you with pride.

Wooden Peppermill by Alessi

Available in Maple or Walnut


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This wooden pepper grinder is made by the famous Italian design factory Alessi. It's made of European wood essences and is precision made to both look great and work a treat. The high design of this peppermill brings an affordable but sophisticated quality to the kitchen table.

Jasper Morrison Wood Utensils

Alessi kitchen tools made from Beech wood


Kitchen Tools Wood Utensils by Alessi


The Alessi Kitchen Tools Wood Utensils designed by Jasper Morrison, 2006 are crafted with the utmost care and craftsmanship to easily complement any cookware set. The Kitchen Tools Wood Utensils features durable Beech wood.

Burnished Bamboo 5-Piece Utensil Set by Joyce Chen

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Cherry Wood Salad Servers

Made by the renowned American wood artist Spencer Peterman

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These cherry wood salad servers are the creation of renowned American wood artist Spencer Peterman. He makes these wooden kitchen utensils from his studio in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. Spencer's wood salad server sets are created from a single piece of wood and are 100% food-safe.

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