If you have ever wondered about wooden spoons… next to the fingers, spoons are amongst the oldest and most basic kitchen tools. Wooden spoons are a kitchen essential and I’d bet you have at least one kind or another, possibly even a drawerful. A good wooden spoon is strong, inflexible and a poor conductor of heat. How many times have you burned your fingers picking up a metal spoon left against a hot pot while cooking. Ouch! I’m guilty of that too.