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How your posh silverware makes food taste bad
The Telegraph ^ | February 12, 2015 | Saffron Alexander

Posted on 02/12/2015 8:05:44 AM PST by ConservativeInPA

A new study reveals that the material of your cutlery affects your food - so ditch the silver spoons, and opt for gold instead Being born with a silver spoon in your mouth may no longer be seen as a desirable characteristic after new research reveals silver spoons actually make your food taste bad. Determined to make the "best spoon in the world," Dr Zoe Laughlin, director of the Institute of Making, led a study to reveal which material made the best spoon for dining.

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I needed a hard news story like this to lower my BP. My only thought is the Brits must suck on their spoons or something.
1 posted on 02/12/2015 8:05:44 AM PST by ConservativeInPA
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To: ConservativeInPA

My sterling silverware does not effect the taste of food. This is ridiculous.


2 posted on 02/12/2015 8:07:43 AM PST by reformedliberal
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To: ConservativeInPA

What about all those that eat with their fingers ? LOL


3 posted on 02/12/2015 8:08:23 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Silver was an early medicine. When people quit eating with real Silver silverware they started getting more ill.


4 posted on 02/12/2015 8:08:49 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

That is why ice cream taste testers use gold spoons.


5 posted on 02/12/2015 8:09:04 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

“I’m just mad about saffron, saffron’s mad about me...”


6 posted on 02/12/2015 8:10:37 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I dunno about making food taste bad, but they sure do make me fat!................


7 posted on 02/12/2015 8:11:23 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: al_c
That is why ice cream taste testers use gold spoons.

And frozen dairy product taste testers use plastic spoons. I bought some "frozen dairy product" the other day thinking I was buying ice cream. I need to start wearing my glasses in the grocery store.

8 posted on 02/12/2015 8:12:31 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (#JuSuisCharlesMartel)
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To: ConservativeInPA

The head taste tester at Dreyer’s Ice Cream uses a gold spoon. End of discussion.


9 posted on 02/12/2015 8:13:14 AM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: tet68

Quite right slick


10 posted on 02/12/2015 8:13:19 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (#JuSuisCharlesMartel)
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To: mountainlion
Silver was an early medicine. When people quit eating with real Silver silverware they started getting more ill.

Ground up mummies were also an early medicine. Any studies on the harmful effects of cutting back on our mummy consumption?

11 posted on 02/12/2015 8:14:12 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

hahaha.


12 posted on 02/12/2015 8:14:32 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: reformedliberal

Nothing ridiculous about it. Things have taste, and that taste becomes part of what you eat. I learned this while feeling lazy at a Japanese restaurant, I went with the silverware (which, of course was stainless not silver) and things just didn’t taste right, switched to the chopsticks and that little hint of woodiness put things back where they belong. Now if you use the same stuff all the time it’s part of your “default” flavor so you don’t notice it, kind of like how people with the same accent as you have no accent. But try a different set, you’ll notice a taste change, maybe for the better, maybe not, but it WILL change.


13 posted on 02/12/2015 8:16:05 AM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: reformedliberal

Do a side-by-side comparison of caviar with a silver spoon vs mother of pearl and get back to us, m’kay?


14 posted on 02/12/2015 8:16:23 AM PST by null and void (Our goal is language that is gender-, ethnic- and age-neutral, while celebrating our diversity!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I’m glad I’m not the only one. Occasionally I’ll come home with something weird and hubby will say....wth is that?
I put my glasses on and say....it looked like so and so without my glasses. lol


15 posted on 02/12/2015 8:17:44 AM PST by sheana
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harmful effects of cutting back on our mummy consumption

Zombies for those that did not cut back.


16 posted on 02/12/2015 8:20:17 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: null and void

Do a side-by-side comparison of fish heads, rice and nuoc-mam with a silver spoon vs bamboo chopsticks and get back to us, m’kay?


17 posted on 02/12/2015 8:23:35 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: ConservativeInPA

I knew this article would be a waste of time. What a waste of time. If your life ambition is to make the greatest spoon you need to reevaluate your life. I can’t even believe that an article was written on this. Then again I did read it, I feel sad now...


18 posted on 02/12/2015 8:25:44 AM PST by jasbd1985
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Bs. Silver kills bacteria/germs hence silverware.


19 posted on 02/12/2015 8:28:23 AM PST by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: reformedliberal
My sterling silverware does not effect the taste of food. This is ridiculous.

No sterling, and I haven't noticed that stainless steel effects the taste of things much......or we are used to it.
After all garlic is pretty good at masking the taste of anything ";^)

20 posted on 02/12/2015 8:28:48 AM PST by Politically Correct (A member of the rabble in good standing)
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