Possible Clues:

• Cutlery item
• With OAP onset, use it at table
• Sugar amount, sometimes
• We'll need this one as pot boils!
• Brit's four o'clock swirler
• Something for stirring pot, as one’s brewed
• A poet's drunk, working to find something that stirs
• Something used to stir pot as one cooked
• Cook's measure
• Stirring element in a service?