PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a spoon which allows a user to stir fermented soybeans to give it sufficient stickiness in a short time, to prevent a sauce, mustard, etc. from sticking to the users hand upon opening a seasoning bag containing them, mustard, etc., and to squeeze a sufficient amount of them, mustard, etc. out of the seasoning bag.SOLUTION: The spoon 1 used to stir soybeans in a soybean container includes a tabular stirring/scooping portion 10 and a handle 20 connected to the stirring/scooping portion 10. The stirring/scooping portion 10 has a cut slot 11 of slit form which penetrates the stirring/scooping portion 10 from its front face to back face and forms an opening on the peripheral edge 10c of the stirring/scooping portion 10 and extends to the interior 10d of the stirring/scooping portion 10 to provide a slot in which a seasoning bag can be inserted, and a squeezing slot 12. The cut slot 11 has a cutter 13 projecting from one opposite face 11b toward the other opposite face 11c, both of which are opposite to each other through a gap G1.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】納豆を短時間で十分に粘り気が出るように撹拌することができ、加えて、タレやからし等の入った調味料袋の開封時にこれらが手に付着することを防止し、さらに、これらを小袋から十分に絞りだすことができるスプーンを提供する。【解決手段】納豆容器に収納された納豆を撹拌するスプーン1において、板状の撹拌掬い部10と、撹拌掬い部10に接続された柄部20とを備え、撹拌掬い部10は、撹拌掬い部10を表裏方向に貫通するとともに、撹拌掬い部10の周縁部10cに開口して撹拌掬い部10の内側10dに延びて調味料袋を挿入し得るスリット状の切断溝11と絞り溝12とを有し、切断溝11は、間隙G1を介して相互に対向する一方の対向面11bから他方の対向面11cに向かって突設された切断刃13を有する。【選択図】図2
