Soup spoons are round because they hold more liquid in them and allow the liquid to not spill out the sides. Desert spoons in general can be used to eat pudding or icecreams and don't need such a big surface. Hope that helped :)
Consomme soup should not be eaten with a dessert spoon, but with a boullion spoon, which is the round bowled spoon we now commonly called a soup spoon. Soup was eaten, and still is in silver service, with soup spoon which is very similar to a table spoon and about the size of what we now call a table spoon.
Obviously, as desert spoons are used for eating and serving spoons are used for serving food.
A spoon with a sideways bowl is commonly referred to as a "soup spoon" or "oval spoon." The design allows for easier access to the food, especially in dishes like soup or stews. In some contexts, it might also be called a "spork" when it combines features of both a spoon and a fork.
A cold spoon will extract heat from the soup, a spoon that is warmer than the soup will transfer heat to it.
Put the soup bowl on a plate and then put the spoon on top of the right side of the plate. That's simple.
To eat soup, dip the spoon into the soup, then remove it by going away from your body, not toward it. Sip the soup off the side of the spoon, instead of placing the whole spoon in your mouth.
Metal is a conductor. The spoon heated up from the soup and when the cook touched the spoon, he got burned because the spoon was hot from the soup.
The Place spoon, Oval Soup and Dessert spoon usually refer to the same item in modern flatware services. In older services, these terms can actually refer to slightly different sizes of very similar items. All of these are basically a larger version of the teaspoon.
With a spoon and bread.
The spoon would probably be made of medal.
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A soup serving spoon is a wide circular spoon. It is wider than the average spoon. This reason is because it can allow for a large scoop of soup per spoonful.