Spoon A spoon was a device used both as a cooking or eating utensil , ( TV : " The Eleventh Hour " et al ) and as a musical instrument . ( TV : " Time and the Rani " ) As a utensil . On Earth , as well as other planets , spoons were used for cooking , ( TV : " The Lodger " ) and eating food , especially soup . ( TV : " The Eleventh Hour " , " The Unicorn and the Wasp , Hell Bent " ) The Androgum s used a type of spoon called a boomerang spoon for their cooking . ( PROSE : " Storm Harvest " ) As a musical instrument . The Seventh Doctor , early on in his incarnation , showed a knack for playing the spoons as a musical instrument , though this was seen less as he matured . ( TV : " Time and the Rani " , " The Greatest Show in the Galaxy " , PROSE : " Strange England " ) Representing Earth in lieu of Nicky Newman , he won the 309th Intergalactic Song Contest by playing the spoons . ( AUDIO : " Bang - Bang - a - Boom ! " ) The Doctor played the spoons again while a prisoner in Colditz Castle in October 1944 . ( AUDIO : " Colditz " ) He asked for spoons to play when he held prisoner by the Russian s during the Siege of Sevastopol . ( AUDIO : " The Angel of Scutari " ) Ace disliked the Doctor ' s habit of playing the spoons and therefore hid them in the TARDIS . ( AUDIO : " Fiesta of the Damned " ) The Doctor played the spoons during a visit to the Worldsphere . He claimed that he broke the galactic record for continuous spoon - playing ( sixty - seven hours ) . He would have broken the universal record but a Garthanian telekinetic kept bending his instruments . ( PROSE : " The Also People " ) During their encounter on Perfugium in the far future , noted that the Doctor stopped playing the spoons and mangling his proverbs after his personality began to darken . ( AUDIO : " Master " ) The Twelfth Doctor identified the Seventh Doctor as his " spoon - playing self " and suggested to guitar ist Hattie Munroe that she could collaborate with him . ( COMIC : " Beneath the Waves " ) As a weapon . In 1471 , One - Armed Clarrie supposedly fought off twenty Lancastrian s with only a spoon in the Battle of Tewkesbury . ( AUDIO : " The Kingmaker " ) A spoon was used once again as a weapon when the Tenth Doctor destroyed Baltazar ' s ship with a metal - eating fungus on a spoon . ( TV : " The Infinite Quest " ) The Twelfth Doctor used a spoon in his fight with Robin Hood , ( TV : " Robot of Sherwood " ) and later clutched a spoon he had been using to eat soup when threatened by Rassilon . ( TV : " Hell Bent " ) Other uses . The Tenth Doctor again used a spoon to send an Morse code SOS message when he got trapped in a data core room on the planet Hurala . ( PROSE : " Prisoner of the Daleks " ) The Third Doctor once made a time flow analogue from a Moroccan burgundy bottle , spoons , fork s , cork s , key ring s , tea leaves and a mug . ( TV : " The Time Monster " ) Captain Jack Harkness knew of a planet where the main form of sentient life were spoons . He invited Rose Tyler and the Ninth Doctor on a trip to the location . ( COMIC : " Hot Springs Eternal " ) The Twelfth Doctor once created a sonic spoon while imprisoned . ( PROSE : " The Blood Cell " ) References . In 2012 , Henry van Statten told Adam Mitchell to go to Rose Tyler , and " canoodle or spoon or whatever it is you British do . " Spoon had sex ual implications in this context . ( TV : " Dalek " ) Spoon - like objects . Among objects that resembled a spoon were an anti - Droon audio paddle , a pest control device and the head of a Spoonhead . ( PROSE : " Border Princes " ; TV : " The Bells of Saint John " )