I don’t know how many times I’ve seen cooks on the Food Channel measure out ingredients, and they’ve still got the measuring spoons on the ring that is used to keep them together when they ship them to you. The wives on Take Home Chef on TLC are some of the worst for this. (And don’t get me started on them wearing rubber gloves just to handle vegetables!) Even Martha Stewart still has them on a ring. Once you’ve used one to measure a liquid, what do you do? Let it drip? Get another ring of spoons and use just one of them?

Take them off the ring!

We have two sets of measuring spoons that we regularly use here, a regular sized set and a narrow set to fit into spice bottles. Since we actually use these spoons, they were removed from their shipping rings years ago, and I made a wall-mounted measuring spoon holder to hold both sets. We can pick the individual spoon needed, and can mix and match measuring wet and/or dry ingredients without dragging along a handful of unused spoons along. We can also tell at a glance if one is missing.
So, my next project is going to be to make a Measuring Spoon Holder in two versions, holding either a single or double set of spoons. All sets of spoons I’ve seen have the same number and dimensions of spoons, even the cheap ones. (I don’t count the sets that have odd sizes or extra big/small spoons.) Here’s what it needs to do:

1. Hold a complete set(s) of spoons without hindering use
2. When replacing spoons, it should be easy to re-hang them without interference
3. Easy to mount on kitchen wall
4. Made of wood (I like wood)

I hope to have a prototype ready in a couple of days, once I do some measuring.