I avoid this by consistently using the same spoon. Other dishes may sit for awhile, but the chosen spoon gets washed after every use. Because there’s not just one weird spoon. There’s a whole stack of them and I have no idea where most of them came from. One of this, two of that, it’s all hodgepodge chaos.

But I’m glad they’re there. That way, my spouse has spoons to use that aren’t the chosen spoon.