Oh dear. I've been using a table knife to scrape crystallized honey from the inside of the bottle and then just dipping the result on the knife into hot tea and stirring until the honey melts off.

I honestly would have trouble wasting a clean spoon by scraping the honey from the knife onto a presumably more appropriate utensil. Anyway, all of the honey would not come off.

As for the knife-as-a-gift issue, I know I've read at least one story where there's a mitigating behavior that makes the gift of a knife okay, somehow neutralizing the cutting aspect of the transaction. But I can't remember what it is.

P.