Well we always don't really care about the utensils we eat food with. But with the increasing interaction we have with people overseas and more meetings with them, is making us aware of their customs and etiquette's at the table.
This part of the post will cover the different types of spoons that we eat with. No there are more than just the teaspoon and tablespoon :). Next time pay careful attention and identify which spoon you ate with.
We start with the humble and well know teaspoon :)
The humble teaspoon measures at 5ml as per normal standards. Tea spoons are not just used for stirring your tea :P, they also get used for stirring your milkshakes and eating the vanilla ice cream from your favourite choco latte with ice cream :) Given below is an image of one of those long stemmed teaspoons.
Well after the teaspoon lets visit the big brother the tablespoon
Big brother measures almost thrice as much as the teaspoon i.e. 15 ml. According to me most of the recipes require you to use heaps of tablespoon measurement unless they specifically mention level tablespoon measures. Heaps allow you to add that right touch of seasoning or masalas to your cooking. These days in you get varied measuring spoon sets in the market which would normally include a measure for each: tablespoon, 1/2 tablespoon, 1/4 tablespoon and a teaspoon.
Moving on we come to the cute sweet little coffee spoon.
This cute little spoon is the perfect accompaniment for that post meals coffee or a cuppa coffee in the morning to drive those sleepy blues away......Remember those cute little coffee stirrers (so we assumed) which were actually coffee spoons served with the Cafe Coffee Day's hot coffee's...well its actually a spoon :D..... What say about our lack of knowledge!!!!!!
Before moving to more obscure spoons one more spoon which is common knowledge is the soup spoon.
These spoons normally used for that hot bowl of man chow or sweetcorn soup is something we all cherish. These spoons are ornately designed in most of the fancy restaurants....however our local dhaba or roadside stall would have the plain plastic ones which serve the purpose as well....
However these spoons are not used for eating the more heavy soups containing cream....the ones that come to mind are the European soups like the vegetable cream soup, onion cream soup.....Shown below is one of the spoons used to drink the cream soups...
Be it Onion Cream Soup or the rich all time favourite Tomato Soup..This elegant looking instrument is used for the heavier soups (cream based)
Moving to the next spoon the grapefruit spoon
This spoon is traditionally used for spooning melons and grapefruit...notice how the spoons edge is pointed instead of rounded like the normal teaspoon...
We use salt in all our dishes on a daily basis....however very few of us will know that there is actually a spoon dedicated to the use of salt in olden days...guess our ancestors were smarter than us 
Given the increasing rate of people suffering from high blood pressure, I think this spoon will make a comeback as an accompaniment in all restaurants where each dining member can pick the amount of salt he/she wants to consume. Shown below is a spoon filled with salt...
Moving on to a special spoon .... the marrow spoon. 
Used especially to remove the marrow from the bones....this spoon is rarely used these days
A popular spoon with kids and elders alike is the egg spoon
Besides the distinctive looks of this spoon....it also helps in removing of the shell of the egg and works as an egg holder too....egg spoons are still used in many hotels worldwide for boiled eggs......
The next spoon to get our attention is the dessert spoon...
Normally a spoon between the teaspoon and tablespoon the dessert spoon is used especially for desserts....in a table arrangement this spoon is the closest to the plate if dessert is your last course
If however coffee is the last course of your meal you will have the demitasse spoon next to your plate...
This diminutive spoon is used to scoop up the froth of your cappuccino and other frothy drinks...A fancy version of this spoon is here
This spoon is different from the coffee spoon as they have distinctive functions. The coffee spoon is used for stirring the coffee and this is used for eating the froth....
The bouillon spoon:
This spoon is used extensively used in French cuisine.....to eat any kind of a broth....meat or vegetable or a combination of both...
Finally the only spoon that cannot be a steel or silver spoon....the caviar spoon
You can have a lot of ornate spoons and silver spoons but the caviar spoon made from mother of pearl, gold, animal horn or wood is definitely most expensive....Caviar in itself is not a food for the common man....often snubbed as the food for the rich caviar has a distinctive taste which should not get affected by any spoon that reacts with the substances present in the caviar..
This is it .... a lot of knowledge about spoons!!!!! Hope it helps
Bon apetite!!!!
