Customer Reviews

OXO Good Grips Large Wooden Spoon

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

As a serious amateur woodworker who has also studied the design and building of wooden boats, let me say that beechwood is by far one of the inferior materials one could choose for making wooden spoons. Olivewood is by far the superior material for this sort of common yet critical kitchen tool. Should you doubt this, please visit the kitchens of France, Italy and Spain to see what's stirring the pot.

Additionally, fabricating the spoon by gluing multiple pieces together is a lesson in engineering failure. It violates the most basic principles of woodworking. Wood, because it is made by nature and not man is not uniform. Wood not only expands and contracts as it heats and cools, but also as it draws up moisture and dries. Multiple pieces equals multiple rates of expanding and contracting, working against the glued joint.

While Oxo makes and sells some very fine kitchen tools (I have a vegetable peeler by them that's the best I've ever owned and it's about a decade old), this is sure not among them.

A product to avoid.

Bought two spoons and within 2 months both had split along the glue lines. The spoons were hand washed. Get spoons but I can't afford to replace them every two months.

Looking at the criticisms of this spoon from other users, I can't help but wonder if OXO changed the manufacturing process for its wooden spoons, because the one that I own is definitely made from one piece of wood.

Any chef who is concerned about scratching nonstick cookware should own this spoon and the others in the OXO lineup. I use it with my steel surfaced cookware as well. This spoon is a pleasure to hold and stir sauces with. It definitely makes life easier in the kitchen.

Tip: to protect your spoon from cracking, apply some food-grade mineral oil and rub it in all over. Apply once a month or so to keep the wood protected and to prevent it from drying out, and your spoon will last a long time.

I have an oxo spoon I bought a couple of years back. It's a well-made heavy spoon. But when I recently went to buy more as gifts, I discovered oxo has since thrown quality out the window. Their spoons are now made of several pieces of wood glued together--just like so many other cheap wooden spoons for sale nowadays which usually crack after a few uses. If this is what you want, just go to your local discount store. But if quality if what you're after, you'll have to look elsewhere.

We always hand wash our wooden spoons. The bowl of the spoon split after just a a few months.

I really should have read the reviews before I wasted a cent on this spoon. I hand washed it because I wanted to keep it in great shape. It wasn't many months after I bought it, that it split down the middle. I thought it was made of one piece of wood, and maybe so, but nevertheless, it split. It went into my pile of wood for my firepit. I honestly went to the Goodwill store and came across one of the old, solid wooden spoons and bought one for 25 cents that surely will far surpass the life of this junk. OXO, how could you have failed so badly on this one???

I'm not sure how long these are expected to last, but mine broke about a year after purchasing. Shattered into several pieces while stirring a soup.

I love this spoon but I fear I must agree with another reviewer here in that beechwood is simply NOT the wood these implements should be made from. As I said, I love this spoon, but to be honest with you, I have gone through three of them over the past two years. They simply will not hold up even with hand washing. The olive wood spoons and tools I purchased while in Europe are an absolute delight and I have one that I stole from my mother that is well over thirty years old and is still going strong. She bought her spoon in Italy. Now Oxo does make some very nice and affordable products...goodness know I have plenty of them in my kitchen, but this particular wooden spoon is not one of them.

I carve in wood and sculpt in wood. I know, it is usually a guy thing, but then I am a bit different, if you know what I mean. Anyway, I have five chunks of hickory and several pieces of osage orange in my attic right now drying and curing. I plan to carve my own spoons this winter. We will see how that goes.

Overall I have to give this product only three stars even though I love it, because it simply will not hold up.

This spoon cracked along glue edge after only 3 uses i was very dissapointed! I bought a 12 pack of bamboo spoons at walmart for $3 to tide me over for now until I can find some that are made of solid wood.

Solid, durable spoon made from one piece of wood. I use mine often and have had no problems. I will certainly be using this product as part of housewarming gifts in the future.