A very cool way to display cheese spreaders

I seem to have gotten busy this summer and haven’t posted for a couple of months — where does the time fly? In the meantime, however, I have heard from another collector of cheese spreaders (yes, there are actually other collectors whom I hear from occasionally!) and she has generously sent me photos of how she displays them. Her method of display is so imaginative that I just had to share it with you.

Jan, who has been collecting cheese spreaders for years and has (at this time) nearly 70 spreaders in her collection, was at a loss as to how to display her finds until she hit on a great idea: she has figured out how to modify spoon racks to display her cheese spreaders:

We’ve all seen these — they probably remind you of your (or someone else’s) grandmother’s kitchen. Jan has found a cool new use for these old- fashioned spoon racks. (http://commons.wikimedia.org)

Jan was able to use a rotary tool (sometimes also known as a Dremel tool) like this one:

(Thanks to Kiki for sharing her images under a creative commons license: http://degaraydolls.blogspot.com/2014/01/doll-making-work-in-progress.html)

…to modify each spoon holding slot in the spoon rack. She sent me a closeup of what the modified slots look like:

Jan has made a cut across each round spoon slot, so that the flat blade of a cheese spreader can be accommodated.

Jan’s collection, midway through the process of converting spoon racks into cheese spreader display racks.

The finished display racks. You’d never even notice that the racks are of different designs, now that they’re painted the same color (a nice dark color that allows the details of each painted cheese spreader handle to be seen in contrast).

Jan has a very nice collection of cheese spreaders displayed in her new display racks. My favorite might be the beach frogs (in the bottom left rack, in the top row), although the flower pots are nice too, and the chickens, and the Halloween cats…. So many fun sets!

Additionally, Jan keeps a slotted butchers’ block on her counter, to display a rotating seasonal set for easy use. This is also a nice idea.

I’d like to thank Jan for sharing with us her clever method of displaying cheese spreaders. This is an attractive and relatively inexpensive way to solve the dilemma of how to display them so that a collection can be enjoyed and shown off to visitors and family. Thanks, Jan!

And thanks to readers for reading! -Beth