Dexam 28cm Wooden Porridge Spirtle/Stirrer

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Like good experimentalists, we turned to a nearby, very heavily used whiteboard to try and get a grip on what was happening.

Verival Porridges are super easy to prepare. They are ready for consumption just by adding hot water, milk or vegetable drinks. Without question you can also use the next best spoon to stir. But if you want to prepare your porridge particularly creamy, with style and in the knowledge of old porridge traditions, your spurtle will soon become an essential porridge tool. Huge thanks to David Gagnon and Robert Seyfarth for making this bit of experimental fun possible. And of course, any errors in this account are mine and mine alone. Notes With this question we dive right into the physics and chemistry of cooking. Stirring is important for mixing ingredients on the one hand and warming up food on the other hand.Our spurtles are turned in the Finzean Wood Turning Mill, one of a small group of mills in the area that are the only ones of their kind in Scotland. The Mill was built in the 1830s and is run by by the fourth generation of the same family. Preparing porridge is quite simple. But all porridge recipes focus on the ingredients. In addition to the basic porridge recipe, which consists only of oat flakes, milk or water and a pinch of salt, there are now countless variations in the most diverse flavours. Breakfast, Nutrition, Breakfast, Gesund leben, Healthy lifestyle, Nutrition A real trend food – that is why porridge is so healthy The virtual competition is the best we could do under the circumstances I think. It’s a pretty reasonable entry.

The graph appeared and I confess it was really exciting to watch the points appear. A straight line down from top left to bottom right over a huge range of stirring speeds. As David had suspected, the viscosity declines linearly with the speed of rotation. However, competition sponsors Hamlyns have stepped in to ensure that the show does indeed go on, virtually at least, by creating an online speciality contest. However, the tool he called a spurtle looked more like a wooden spoon with the contour of a spatula. Thanks to the flat surface area, Kerr used it for more than just cooking porridge, like stirring melted marshmallows for Rice Krispies treats. What do you call a porridge stirrer?Personalized Ice Cream Scoop- Monogrammed Initial - Housewarming - Christmas Gift - Girlfriend - Wedding - Engagment - Realtor - Christmas

A traditional Scottish cooking implement used to stir oats as they cook and slowly soften in the pot. Each of our Myrtle Wood Spurtles is handcrafted in Oregon with its own unique shape. You can use your spurtle to stir porridge made from a variety of whole grain cereals from Bob’s Red Mill. What does the word spurtle mean?I should explain that Dr David A. Gagnon, the physicist in question, is the son-in-law of one of my dearest friends, who happened to be visiting when I was editing the episode. That was how David came to know of my puzzlement – and he has access to wonderful machines that can make very accurate rheological measurements. Rheology is the study of flow, and David’s idea was that the faster the stirrer moved through the porridge, the lower the viscosity of the porridge would be. Shear stress in a material like porridge would be greater at higher flow speeds, and it is the shear stress that gets rid of lumps. Kerr's version of the spurtle was soon adopted by non-porridge-making Americans, like former Martha Stewart Living food director [Lucinda Scala Quinn] who created her own heirloom design that's "not quite a spoon, not quite a spatula." She uses it for stirring eggs, folding chives into mashed potatoes, making tuna salad, and yes, even for oatmeal.