{"product_id":"roses-olivewood-ladle","title":"Rose's Olivewood Ladle","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe ladle that turns serving into a small ceremony. The deep round bowl holds a proper measure — soup, broth, stew, mulled wine — and pours clean from the lip without dribbling down the pot. At about 12.5 inches the long handle reaches the bottom of a tall stockpot and keeps your hand well clear of the heat and the steam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eReach for a plastic ladle instead and a little of it leaves with the food — heat softens it and every serve sheds micro-fragments into what you're about to eat, the same microplastics now turning up in human blood, in the placenta, even in the brain. This won't: it's one solid piece of olive wood, nothing added, nothing coating it, nothing to leach into your food. It's naturally cleaner, too — a University of Wisconsin microbiologist showed decades ago that 99.9% of bacteria die on a wooden surface within minutes, while scratched plastic holds onto them in its grooves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eIt won't melt or warp on the rim of a hot pot the way plastic does, and it's gentle on the cookware you paid good money for — no scratches on non-stick or enamel. It gives nothing back to your food: no plastic taste, no lingering odours, just wood. And no two are alike: the olive grain pools in the bowl and runs the length of the handle in honey, amber and deep bronze — a pattern this tree spent a lifetime writing. Yours is only yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis is olive wood in the Mediterranean tradition Rose's Olivewood was born from — a warm, lasting tool against a drawer full of throwaway plastic. A little oil now and then and it only deepens with the years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHand wash and dry — never the dishwasher; oil it when the wood looks dry. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rose Olivewood","offers":[{"title":"12.5\"","offer_id":53269369127248,"sku":null,"price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/6070\/8176\/files\/hf_20260709_163207_118f294c-6b6e-473e-8128-2c14ded0253a.png?v=1783614889","url":"https:\/\/rose-olivewood.com\/products\/roses-olivewood-ladle","provider":"Rose Olivewood","version":"1.0","type":"link"}