SCOTTISH THISTLE TOP SPURTLE 3 SET COOKING NATURAL CHERRY WOOD by Stephen Mines, US $28.25 – Picture 0

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Scottish Thistle Top Spurtle 3 Set Cooking Natural Cherry Wood By Stephen Mines

US $28.25

Grant, Michigan, United States
Jan 31st

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VERY PROUDLY MADE IN AMERICA!!! SPURTLES! SCOTTISH STIR STICKS! A COMPLETE SET OF THREE: 8", 11" and 14" 8" just right for a small sauce pan 11" great for stirring pasta/stews 14" for a LARGE pot of almost any dish and, of course, you can always make porridge! Please note:THIS listing is for ONE (1) SET OF THREE (3) BY BUYING THE SET YOU WILL SAVE ABOUT 20- 25% FROM THE COST IF BOUGHT INDIVIDUALLY! These sets are shipped in sealed poly bags (see next to last photo) with a copy of THE STORIES (see below) enclosed. The last photo shows a complete SET of FIVE for illustration only! SETS OF FOUR, FIVE and SIX ARE AVAILABLE IN MY EBAY STORE STUDIO WOOD PRODUCTS SCOTTISH THISTLE LINE OF WOODEN UTENSILS This line consists of 12 individual items with a common theme of a carved thistle top. The pieces include spurtles (Scottish stir sticks, use dating from the 1500 century) honey dippers, drink muddlers and spoon/spreaders all with the distinctive thistle top end and featured in prime Cherry wood. Due to the need for additional strength and heft, some of the larger spurtles (20" and 25") are created in Hickory wood. Besides being totally useful (warning: use can be addictive!) this collection looks great on the kitchen counter or the island. A distinctive counter top stand to hold the collection is also being built and will be available soon. It is constructed of Cherry wood with polished T6 (aircraft aluminum that maintains the shine) accents and really makes a uniquely decorative kitchen statement. Of course the spurtles also and look great in a large cup or small crock pot. A starter set of three spurtles (8", 11" and 14") is highly recommended. Most folks order the basic three set, find their favorite sizes through actually using them, and then add to their collection/arsenal: the various size spurtles and specialty pieces can be purchased individually to add to the set. My typical customer usually has two to four 8" spurtles for sauce pans and mixing dry ingredients; and one or two of the 11" and 14" sizes. The specialty pieces (with the same, carved thistle top) are three styles of honey dippers (Bee Hive, Turbo, and Pineapple), a jam, jelly, marmalade scoop / spreader, in two lengths: 8" and 10", and 'Turbo' Muddlers, also 8" and 10". I'm always searching for new, suitable additions to the line; if you have any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated. If I adopt your suggestion into the line you'll be the first to receive one. . . completely free and with my thanks. By the way, I'm a woodturner by vocation, making almost any and all kinds of turned wood objects on my lathes. I've made things as small as push-pins and as large as columns (26 feet tall for a government building in California). I'm often responsible for designing and crafting architectural turned parts such as stair balusters and newel posts, furniture parts such as legs, pedestals, stretchers, lamps and lighting fixtures, spindles of all sorts, simply turned or embellished with flutes, spirals or other ornamentation. My wood turning ranges from the mundane (such as tool handles) to the artistic; seven of my 'lathe art' works are in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and other institutions as well as many private collections. Because I thoroughly enjoy what I do, I'm constantly looking for new turning opportunities...these spurkles and honey dippers (also hiking sticks in my eBay store) are perfect examples! I'm creating something fun, decorative and useful for people to enjoy, making a little green to stay on the planet, and having a whole lot of fun in the process. STUDIO WOOD PRODUCTS SCOTTISH THISTLE LINE OF WOODEN UTENSILS This line consists of 12 individual items with a common theme of a carved thistle top. The pieces include spurtles (Scottish stir sticks, use dating from the 1500 century) honey dippers, drink muddlers and spoon/spreaders all with the distinctive thistle top end and featured in prime Cherry wood. Due to the need for additional strength and heft, some of the larger spurtles (20" and 25") are created in Hickory wood. Besides being totally useful (warning: use can be addictive!) this collection looks great on the kitchen counter or the island. A distinctive counter top stand to hold the collection is also being built and will be available soon. It is constructed of Cherry wood with polished T6 (aircraft aluminum that maintains the shine) accents and really makes a uniquely decorative kitchen statement. Of course the spurtles also and look great in a large cup or small crock pot. A starter set of three spurtles (8", 11" and 14") is highly recommended. Most folks order the basic three set, find their favorite sizes through actually using them, and then add to their collection/arsenal: the various size spurtles and specialty pieces can be purchased individually to add to the set. My typical customer usually has two to four 8" spurtles for sauce pans and mixing dry ingredients; and one or two of the 11" and 14" sizes. The specialty pieces (with the same, carved thistle top) are three styles of honey dippers (Bee Hive, Turbo, and Pineapple), a jam, jelly, marmalade scoop / spreader, in two lengths: 8" and 10", and 'Turbo' Muddlers, also 8" and 10". I'm always searching for new, suitable additions to the line; if you have any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated. If I adopt your suggestion into the line you'll be the first to receive one. . . completely free and with my thanks. The spurtles I'm offering here have a distinctive Scottish flair: the top end represents a THISTLE, national flower of Scotland. After being crafted from the finest Cherry Wood, they are totally immersed in the most pure food-grade oil for 48 hours to prepare them for an active life... so they come to you ready to use! Besides being cleaned/washed after use they are virturally maintainance free...even with daily use...perhaps a light oiling with olive oil or mineral oil once a year (or when they seem very dry). Besides the SPURKLES listed here, I can create these in custom sizes of your choosing, (from very small to large enough to stir a cauldron!) in 'presenttation' sets, and in special exotic woods or COM (customers own material) Please email with specs for a quote. IN ADDITION to this SET OF THREE my Scottish Thistle themed cooking aids are offered INDIVIDUALLY and as: SET OF THREE PLUS HONEY DIPPER 8" spurtle 11" spurtle 14" spurtle Bee Hive honey dipper SET OF FOUR 8" spurtle 11" spurtle 14" spurtle 18" spurtle SET OF FIVE 8" spurtle 11" spurtle 14" spurtle Bee Hive honey dipper 8" DELUXE TURBO muddler MASTER COOKING SET OF SIX 8" spurtle 11" spurtle 14" spurtle Bee Hive Honey Dipper 8" DELUXE TURBO muddler 10" DELUXE TURBO MUDDLER SPUPER SIZE SPURTLES/INDUSTRIAL 1 1/2" X 20" HICKORY / MAPLE 1 1/2" X 25" HICKORY / MAPLE I can also make custom sizes and in exotic woods for display...contact me if you have a project you'd like to see realized! AND all items are offered individually: spurtles: 8", 11", 14" and 18" and honey dipper and turbo muddlers (8" and 10"). You can purchase individual pieces in all the sizes, by going to my eBay Store STUDIO WOOD PRODUCTS The sizes I'm offering have been arrived at after advice from my local all-things-Scottish go-to-guru and friend, Ian MacGregor, (Newaygo, MI) who remembers spurtles from his childhood: "At my grandmother's house we had the good spurtles hanging on the wall...the ones that us little kids stirred with every day were very used and battered, sometimes just well formed natural sticks. . . and they didn't last too long, we used 'em up! I recall the short ones for the smaller pots were kind of fat, the better to mix and stir with, whilst the longer ones had to be thinner so us little kids could even move them in the larger pots! It was a responsible position, stirring, and we vied for the dubious, 'gruelling' honor of manning the spurtles for what often seemed like hours at a time; I now think that the fare on the table always tasted better (to us little ones) for the labor we expended on it!" With that thought, here are a couple of fun reads: How to Make and Eat Porridge the Scottish Way By Ian SG Smith There are many traditions to porridge-making and porridge-eating in Scotland, and some of them may seem quite ridiculous to a foreigner, or someone from England. As an example it must always be stirred when cooking with the right hand, clockwise. The stirring is done with a straight wooden stick, like a wooden spoon with the spoon cut off, known in various parts of Scotland as a spurtle or a theevil. Porridge is always spoken of as 'they', and an old custom demands that 'they' are eaten standing up. It is usually made with oatmeal, but in Caithness, Orkney and Shetland bere-meal (a kind of barley) is often used. Porridge has various names in different parts of the country: Gaelic brochan in the Highlands; milgruel (Shetland) and tartan-purry is thin porridge made with the liquor in which kail has been cooked. Traditionally porridge was eaten from a birch-wood bowl with a horn spoon. It is served with cold milk or cream, sugar or, more often, salt; and as with all foods, the fresher and better the oatmeal, the better the porridge. Many Scotsmen like a glass of porter, stout or beer with it. The following recipe should be used to make a traditional porridge, and is based on the needs of one person only, but it will make a large portion. For this you will need 1 &1/4 ounces of medium oatmeal, roughly a quarter of a cup., plus one cup of water and a pinch of salt. Firstly boil the water in a saucepan, and when it is bubbling add the oatmeal in a constant stream with the left hand stirring all the time with the right. When it is all boiling regularly, pull to the side of the heat, cover and simmer very gently for 10 minutes, then add the salt and stir. Cover again, and simmer very gently for about another 10 minutes; the time cannot be more precise as the quality of the oats varies in cooking time. Serve piping hot in cold soup plates, and dip each spoonful into individual bowls of cold milk or cream before eating. This is the method which has been used for centuries. Porridge can also be made in a double boiler, which prevents any fear of burning. Porridge served in Scotland is much thinner than in Ireland or England, and much the better for it. Also the large flake oatmeal used in other countries is nothing like so good as the medium-size variety in Scotland. AND THIS: By any of a number of names, the spurtle, spurkle, spirtle, thivel, thevel, thibble, and at least a dozen variations on this word is still a Scottish stir stick! Coming to us in the 21st century from at least the 1500s, the thing remains pretty much unchanged. It is a dowel peg average 14" long. Traditionally these days, it does not have the spatula at the bottom as it did many centuries ago, but retains this peg end all the better to get into the curves of the pot for mixing. Most have some decoration at what is the handle end to keep the thing from sliding into the porridge pot. Most commonly, the Scottish Thistle design. Why a dowel-peg shape? Because in days before the ease of processed oats, the grain had to be boiled a long time to render it chewable, let alone digestable! The mess tended to gum up a mite, so one thrashed the thibble about in the porridge pot to make the oats eventually a smooth palatable, desirable edible. The cylindrical shape was more effective and less tiring than other configurations. There are a great many recipes for porridge and most of these include some sort of special tradition about what direction is best to stir it, what vessel best to eat it in, and what kind of utensil to properly transport it into your mouth. There are even strong traditions about what one should put on the porridge, in it, direction to stir it, as well as how to stand when eating it. World-wide validation of porridge and spurkles comes now from the annual Golden Spurkle Competition held in Carrbridge, Scotland, wherein the winner of the fierce competition is awarded a golden spurkle. (each shipment will contain a copy of "THE STORIES" above) About Wood Variations: I'm dealing mainly with CHERRY WOOD for these items and this wood can vary considerably in color (from blond/light to a rich, dark red) and density (grain can be very tight to loose ( from slow winter growth to faster warm weather expansive growing). When I choose the individual pieces to make up a set I actually start at the sizing of the blanks... sorting by general color and weight. ...And I'm often fooled by what happens to the wood in the dip tank! By the way, the Cherry Wood is ALL NATURAL COLORED: no dyes, no stain, no artificial coloring of any sort. So, the final choice is made just before shipping, and I do my best to make up a pleasing, compatible group. Also, I do not discriminate against small tight knots, pin knots and other interesting variations...I consider them 'character marks' and very pleasing and distinct individual touches to the utensils. IF, HOWEVER, for whatever reason, you might object to finding such variations on your bought items, please know that I will certainly honor your feelings by exchanging that piece for another, following my general 30 day return policy. International Buyers – Please Note: Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charges are the buyer’s responsibility. Please check with your country’s customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding/buying. These charges are normally collected by the delivering freight (shipping) company or when you pick the item up – do not confuse them for additional shipping charges. We do not mark merchandise values below value or mark items as ‘gifts’ - US and International government regulations prohibit such behavior. All packages are subject to inspection by local custom authorities possibly causing a delay in delivery time. Studio Wood Products has no control over transit times and cannot be held responsible for possible delays. Thanks for looking! Please check out the other items in my eBay store! Remember: SHIPPING IS FREE! AND Orders ship within 1 BUSINESS DAY of receipt of funds! HAVE A GREAT, GOOD DAY!! Powered by eBay Turbo Lister The free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. FREE! Sellers: Add a FREE map to your listings. FREE!

Condition:	New: A brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging (where packaging is applicable). Packaging should be the same as what is found in a retail store, unless the item is handmade or was packaged by the manufacturer in non-retail packaging, such as an unprinted box or plastic bag. See the seller's listing for full details. ...	Type	wood cooking utensil
Model	Scottish Thistle Top
Material	Cherry Wood
Country/Region of Manufacture	United States
Brand	by Stephen Mines
Country of Manufacture	United States
Color	Natural Cherry Wood