Søndagsskeen

Søndagsskeen means the Sunday spoon, and that is what you make. In a container workshop on Refshaleøen, beginners spend a Sunday learning to split, axe and carve a green birch log into a cooking spoon, using only a hatchet, a straight knife and a hook knife.

Everyone’s first spoon is a bit lopsided. Everyone still uses it every day.

Classes take eight people and run from ten until four, with soup and bread at lunch. The knives are sharp and the instructor is patient, so plasters are rare. Finished spoons are oiled and taken home the same day, and on Saturdays the workshop opens as a small shop selling spoons, spatulas and butter knives.