We used to come here quite a bit as they serve very delicious Moroccan and Mediterranean food. We hadn't been for a long while, so last night we decided to brave the weather for some Hummus and Baba Ghanoush!
It was at Cafe Mogador on this cold and rainy night that we met Spoon #2:
Spoon #2 is marked "Johnson Rose", "Stainless Steel", and "18-10" on the back. You can tell when you're holding #2, that it is a really fine spoon. According to the Johnson Rose catalog, this is their "Atlantis" pattern:
How do spoon companies manage to take these pictures without getting reflections? Trade secret...
The "18-10" on the back is no secret though. According to my old Metallurgy text, it describes the composition of the stainless steel. The "18" is the percentage of chromium, while the "10" is the percentage of nickel. Chromium makes the stainless steel rust-resistant, while the Nickel gives it a silver-like shine. A "10" for nickel is really "ooh la la" stuff.
This type of stainless steel is called Austenitic. It was invented back in 1912 by the engineers at Krupp in Essen, Germany. That's right around the time my great-grandfather worked there!
All this talk of stainless steel really brings me back. I remember once in one of my Metallurgy classes our instructor told the class that if you wanted to know about the quality of a piece of flatware, all you had to do was hold a magnet up to it. If the magnet didn't stick, you had some really nice stainless steel. Well, I'm not sure about all that because when I put a magnet to Spoon #2 there's definitely some attraction. I still think that #2 is a very fine spoon, though it must be handled with extreme care as it is not certified by the NSF.
By the way, extra kudos go to Ms. Dish for ordering a fish dish complete with head, tail, fins, et cetera - she reported that it was delicious!
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