Pour Spouts

Pour spouts are handy little buggers. My first introduction to them, however, didn’t go so well. As part of our new set of dishes, we purchased a decorative container with a pour spout. Loved the look of it, but the function was ridiculous. I mean, who in their right mind is going to pour the oil or vinegar or whatever other contents they want to easily pour from a pour spout from one container into another, just to make that happen? Not I! But the dang spout didn’t fit anything else. And forget about washing the beautifully decorated ceramic container… There’s a laugh.

Luckily, my favorite olive oil (Santini Premium Extra Virgin from Trader Joes) started coming with a pour spout attached. I loved being able to grab the bottle and drizzle wherever I needed to. Several times, I tried stealing the pour spout off the bottle once I was finished with it so I could use it elsewhere, but after a couple torn knuckles from trying to wrestle off the slippery thing, I decided I’d have to go without.

Then, Useful Things hooked me up with these stainless steel Pour Spouts. Yay! If you make your own salad dressings as often as I do, you will wonder how you went without having a pour spout attached to everything. (Next mission: find jars I can make my salad dressings in that the pour spouts will fit.) It’s also great to put the pour spout equipped oil and vinegar jars directly on the table for guests to mix up their own.

What else is cool about these pour spouts? They are natural cork, which I prefer over plastic any day, because plastic contains all sorts of icky chemical bonds that do strange things to the human body. Also, these pour spouts have lids! I’ve never in my life seen a pour spout with a lid, and I love to leave my vinegars in the fridge, with pour spouts attached, without having to worry about odors leaking out or getting in.

Other possible nifty uses for pour spouts: liquor bottles, extracts (vanilla, almond), food coloring, and other thin sauces, such as soy.

Pour Spouts from Useful Things.