Long Slim Spoon by Jonathan's Spoons Highly Recommended by the Chez Peachy Panel! And, it is MADE IN THE USA!!!!
I love having all kinds of different spoons in my kitchen for different tasks. It ultimately makes cooking easier which for me, results in cooking more often! Jonathan's wild cherry spoons are handcrafted and sanded for a smooth, soft finish. Jonathan designs with balance and usefulness in mind to provide ease in the kitchen, which I truly appreciate. The slim spoon specifically allows for streamlined stirring and tasting. This is the perfect spoon when your meal is almost done cooking! It allows you to scoop up just enough of a taste so that you can ensure that your dish is ready to eat! It washes easily too with soap and water so you don't need to bother putting it in the dishwasher! I am so happy to have such a great, useful spoon in my collection!
Jonathan's Spoons are handmade in the U.S.A. and are absolutely gorgeous. We just love the solid maple Long Slim Spoon. This slender and long spoon is perfect to stirring sauces or soups. The best part is unlike metal spoons, these wood spoons won't be too hot to your touch. These spoons are also sanded to perfection and feel so great in your hand. The Long Slim Spoon really takes a back to our childhood when our Italian Nonna would cook with a wooden spoon. We love the way it cooks and feels, just right. Oh, and did we mention how beautiful it is? We will be stirring up some amazing sauces with this all maple spoon, the perfect gift for any cook.
So you think a wooden cooking spoon is just a wooden cooking spoon. Think again. Jonathan Spoons has a slim maple spoon that is miles above the rest. Carefully crafted in Pennsylvania, yes something actually made in the USA, they have over 90 different types of spoons, ladles, forks servers and spatulas. Seriously! Jonathan Spoons are more like art all made from Cherry and Maple wood. So if you are true cook, then indulge in these beautifully cooking tools. It will enhance the experience in many ways. The luster of the wood tied with the unique and clever design of the pieces will delight for many years.
Jonathan's Spoons Slim Spoon is the perfect wood spoon to have around while cooking. It is great for any type or style of food. I love how beautiful this spoon is. I love the way it feels in my hand and how easy it is to work with. It is one beautiful hand crafted piece. I take pride in my food and I also take pride in my kitchen utensils. This really is a must have! Just get one and give it a go. Also, know that this is also a great spoon to gift.
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All of Jonathan’s® Spoons are handcrafted in the United States in our rural Kempton Pennsylvania spoon shop and finished with food grade, non-toxic oil. I do not use any stains, varnishes or laminating process on any of my utensils, thus removing any question about safety or toxicity. The wood I use is purchased from suppliers who are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. This certification assures me the wood is coming from well managed forests and is sustainably harvested. I also contribute to the Hardwood Forestry Fund, American Forests, and the Pennsylvania Forest Association; these organizations help to protect our native forests through tree planting and educational projects. My products are perfect for the “natural” kitchen. In all aspects of my work, I seek balance; centering on function, I am most interested in creative solutions that work as well as they look and feel.
The Spoons:
Maple Slim Spoon is approx. 12” in length and created from select maple wood. The Slim Spoon is designed for streamlined stirring and tasting; a very classic cooking spoon. The Slim Spoon is also available in cherry wood or flame blackened and both right and left hand.
“I love making wooden spoons. They are the simplest tools of the home, and yet remain profound; there are unlimited designs and uses to explore, and for me, this is only the beginning.”
-Jonathan S. Simons
It all started the day I forgot to put a spoon in my lunch bag when I was working as an apprentice to a furniture maker. I took a piece of scrap wood and quickly shaped a spoon. I had majored in art and design at the University of Illinois, and wanted to create something both beautiful and functional, which led me to explore working with wood. In 1978, following my apprenticeship I worked in a canoe-seat factory in Maine. When I was laid off from my job, I wanted to work for myself. My home workshop was in the garage, and at 20 degrees below zero, it was too cold for glue to set so I could only make single piece products. That is when I remembered spoons.
After trading spoons for food, and barely surviving, I found a sales representative who helped launch my business with a whopping $6000 of sales in my first year. In 1979 I moved back to my home state, Pennsylvania, which has a milder climate and a good supply of native hardwood, began making spoons and selling them. At my first national craft show I under priced my spoons and sold out my year’s production in the first hour of the show.
My spoons have developed over the years. Originally made of uncommon spoon woods such as lilac, plum, and honeysuckle, I have since chosen to make my spoons of Pennsylvania cherry wood. This is a hardwood with handsome color and grain, durable, smooth, and strong. My utensils have a unique sense of balance and warmth because they are designed with the hand and purpose in mind. “Spoons” have become spatulas, tongs, spaghetti forks, spreaders, and more. Today I offer a natural cherry finish, or a flame-blackened finish where I embellish some spoon surfaces with flame-blackened stripes and spots and spirals.
From the start-up days of producing spoons in a chilly workshop in Maine, Jonathan’s® Spoons has grown into a successful craft business. I have a shop in rural Kempton, Pennsylvania with 12 employees helping to meet the supply needs of my wholesale and retail customers. I exhibit my work at select juried craft shows around the country, to include the Smithsonian Craft Show, American Craft Council shows, Craft Boston shows, the Philadelphia Buyer’s Market, and the New York International Gift Fair. A busy show schedule requires a lot of traveling; fortunately my lovely wife, Julia, often accompanies me. Together, we find it rewarding to share in the offering of quality American made arts and crafts.
Jonathan’s® Spoons Media Appearances (a sampling)
Online: Whom You Know!
Magazines: Everyday with Rachael Ray, Countryside, Country Living, Entrepreneur, Better Homes & Gardens Wood, O Magazine, Reader’s Digest (Dec 2005), AARP (Mar/Apr 2008), Taste of the South (Apr/May 2008), Country Home (Dec 2008), Vegetarian Times (Nov/Dec 2008), Northeast Flavor (Nov/Dec/Jan 2010/2011), early Homes (Fall/Winter 2010)
Newspapers: San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, Reading Eagle
Television: QVC, Christine Cooks, Rachael Ray Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show
Recognition and Awards
1980 Director’s Choice Award, Awarded by The Baum School of Art
1996 & 1999 Niche Award Finalist, Functional Art Category
2002 Niche Award, Flame-blackened Serving Spoon
2010 spring/fall New York International Gift Fair Sustainability Status Award -
Flame Blackened Salad Tongs
2011 spring New York International Gift Fair Sustainability Status Award-
Flame Blackened Ladle
2011 Best New Product Award/for the BeeStick™ World Tea Expo
