Are you left-handed? Do you get annoyed at kitchen utensils that are angled and shaped with right-handed people in mind? Well, Shaker Workshops offer these beautiful handmade spoons and cooking implements, and they have a whole line that is designed for left-handed people.
As a right-handed person, I have to admit I don't quite understand how these particular designs are better for left-handed people; can't you just flip a spoon over for the left hand? But perhaps their benefits are a little more subtle, and they certainly are beautiful!
Find them:
• Left Handed Wild Cherry Spoons, starting at $18.75 at Shaker Workshops
• Right Handed Wild Cherry Spoons, starting at $18.75 at Shaker Workshops
Are you left-handed? Are any of your kitchen tools optimized for your dominant hand?
Related: Gorgeous Hand-Carved Wooden Spoons from Nic Webb
(Images: Shaker Workshop)
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As a lefty I'll say that while I haven't used any specific left-handed gadgets, it would be nice. Never seen anything in normal stores, otherwise I'd probably have tried them. BUT, you can't just flip some utensils around. They are curved, so that when I do flip my wooden turner/spatula, the curve is facing the wrong way.
Anyway, cool utensils!
I'm left-handed and my mom thought it would be a great idea to buy me a left-handed can opener. I can't even use the thing, because for most of my life I've just used my right hand!
Yes, you can just flip the tool over to use left handed, but that assumes the tool you are working with is symmetrical AND flat. There is nothing worse than the perfect tool that is perfectly wrong for my left handed self.
These are lovely!
Lovely, but pricey.
As a lefty, I have one or 2 angled spoon/spatula type utensils I can't properly use due to the righty-ness of it. Good to know some people think of these things!
jmorri26 - They are handmade. Admittedly so is some of the stuff from China but that always looks like it was sloppily rushed...these are crafted. I would consider a couple of these because they are pretty enough to display.
One area of left-handed kitchen tools that is beneficial to lefties rather than using conventional tool is knives - a bread knife in particular.... There's nothing worse than baking a loaf of bread from scratch and having it mangled by a bread knife because the serration pulls the knife the wrong way, giving you slices that are thicker on the bottom than the top...
I'm a lefty, but my husband is not, so we really appreciate universally-designed tools!