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Earlywood Designs
If you like to cook, you’ll love Earlywood, a Montana-based operation that makes exquisite wooden utensils just outside of Yellowstone National Park. Founder Brad Bernhart, a mechanical engineer by trade, first started carving wood spoons as a hobby. He’d look through people’s utensil crocks for the oldest, best-loved pieces, studying what made them so special. Today, Earlywood makes tools rooted in tradition but ready for modern kitchens.
Our favorite items include two deceptively simple pieces. There’s the Large Flat Sauté — which works as a spatula, flipper, and salad tong — and the Big Tera Scraper — a wider flat tool designed specifically for cooking in cast iron skillets. Adaptable, space-saving, and comfortable in the hand, these have become some of our marketplace editor’s go-to utensils. She also delights in her long-handled Wooden Tasting Spoon, which is perfect for sampling whatever’s at the bottom of her Vitamix. Perhaps surprising for a company based in Big Sky Country, Earlywood also specializes in Asian cooking utensils. At the request of food writer J. Kenji López-Alt, the author of a book on wok cooking, Bernhart developed a Wood Wok Spatula. Earlywood also offers long wooden cooking chopsticks and small rolling pins designed specifically for dumplings.
Earlywood takes sustainability seriously. The company makes all its items from four different hardwoods, each chosen for performance and with distinct natural coloration. The woods are untreated, except with mineral wax. For every order, Earlywood donates $1 to the Nature Conservancy’s reforestation project in Brazil. Donations totaled over $88,000 at the end of 2024. To avoid waste, Earlywood turns wood scraps into pen blanks. Extra sawdust gets compressed into burnable briquettes and given away to neighbors. To keep your wooden tools looking gorgeous for generations, Earlywood offers a helpful guide to wood care and a wood oil and wood wax. The most sustainable products in your kitchen are the ones that are in for the long haul. Earlywood’s utensils really fit the bill.
Enter code BLUEDOT at checkout to save 10% on your purchase through July 6.
Our favorite items include two deceptively simple pieces. There’s the Large Flat Sauté — which works as a spatula, flipper, and salad tong — and the Big Tera Scraper — a wider flat tool designed specifically for cooking in cast iron skillets. Adaptable, space-saving, and comfortable in the hand, these have become some of our marketplace editor’s go-to utensils. She also delights in her long-handled Wooden Tasting Spoon, which is perfect for sampling whatever’s at the bottom of her Vitamix. Perhaps surprising for a company based in Big Sky Country, Earlywood also specializes in Asian cooking utensils. At the request of food writer J. Kenji López-Alt, the author of a book on wok cooking, Bernhart developed a Wood Wok Spatula. Earlywood also offers long wooden cooking chopsticks and small rolling pins designed specifically for dumplings.
Earlywood takes sustainability seriously. The company makes all its items from four different hardwoods, each chosen for performance and with distinct natural coloration. The woods are untreated, except with mineral wax. For every order, Earlywood donates $1 to the Nature Conservancy’s reforestation project in Brazil. Donations totaled over $88,000 at the end of 2024. To avoid waste, Earlywood turns wood scraps into pen blanks. Extra sawdust gets compressed into burnable briquettes and given away to neighbors. To keep your wooden tools looking gorgeous for generations, Earlywood offers a helpful guide to wood care and a wood oil and wood wax. The most sustainable products in your kitchen are the ones that are in for the long haul. Earlywood’s utensils really fit the bill.
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