sauce ladle

Deep-bowled serving spoon

A sauce ladle is a small ladle designed for serving sauces, gravies, and dressings.

It has a shorter handle and shallower bowl than a soup ladle, allowing precise pouring over food: She used the sauce ladle to drizzle béarnaise over the steak.

Often part of formal serving sets.

Related

drizzle · pour · kitchen · soup kitchen · utensil · stainless · stainless steel · handle · bowl · broth · soup · stirring · dipping · slotted · pot · simmering · metal · wooden

Opposites
UTENSIL FUNCTION (liquid vs. solid handling)

sauce ladleslotted spoon

Holed spoon for draining

skimmer · spider strainer · colander · pasta fork · sieve

size/capacity

sauce ladlesoup ladle

Deep spoon for serving

serving liquids vs. serving solids

sauce ladleserving fork

Large fork for transferring food

meat fork · cake server · pie server · tongs · spatula

Family

sauce, ladle, sauces, sauced, saucing, saucy, saucier, sauciest, saucily

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G