Hand-made African, long-handled Senegalese kitchen utensils, especially used for stirring fermenting milk in large gourd calabashes (as shown) or in large plastic bowls and also in cooking for stirring boiling porridges to keep them from clumping. Shown the traditional whittled wood, and also the increasingly popular scrap metal stirrers. Shown compared to tea and tablespoons, the longest stirrer approximately shown approximately 38 cm long.