I did it

I’ve been agonizing about the switch for a long time. As you may have noted.

For tradition’s sake, I made my own whisks and had to search for birch, but ash and oak were in the yard. The ash twigs were the whippiest, the oak the sturdiest. They took about 10 minutes, but that’s because I’m a newbie. My dad could have done it blindfolded, probably. I’d practiced making a birch whisk a week earlier — and was it ever crispy! (But now I know how to resuscitate it.)

Others tried my leafy whisks as I needed to leave before the leaves were used (sorry about the bad pun!).

Ash received 0 votes — it wasn’t durable and disintegrated after a couple of uses. Birch won the

“wonderful scent” award and tied with oak for its usability and durability. Oak earned the “astringent” prize. 

And now you know. 

Nikki