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You're trying to correct something and are uninformed, not adding a ton to the convo.
"A spoon is frequently used in the preparation of certain drugs, primarily heroin and crack cocaine. For heroin, a spoon serves as a heating vessel to dissolve the powdered or tar form of the drug. Heroin is often mixed with water in the spoon, and heat is applied from underneath with a lighter to facilitate dissolution, to create a liquid for injection. A small piece of cotton or a cigarette filter is sometimes placed in the spoon to act as a filter, drawing the liquid into a syringe while leaving behind impurities.
Crack cocaine, a rock-like form of cocaine, can also be prepared using a spoon. Powdered cocaine is mixed with baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and a small amount of water in the spoon. This mixture is then heated, causing a chemical reaction that separates the cocaine base, forming an oily mass that solidifies into crack cocaine “rocks” upon cooling. While crack is primarily smoked, the spoon is used in this “cooking” process to transform the powder into its smokable crack form."
You're quoting from somewhere, but not citing your sources, which doesn't really add to the conversation either, for all we know you're just copy and pasting some AI-hallucinated bullshit, and it kind of reads like it might be because that last sentence is a bit of a mess.
Now, sure, you technically can cook crack in a spoon, and I'm also absolutely certain that some people have, maybe even on a regular basis.
But at least around me, most crackheads aren't usually out cooking their own crack in the field, they're buying rocks from their dealer. That's one of the reasons crack got big- higher profit margins for the dealer. Maybe the situation is different in Vienna, I honestly can't can't say I've ever talked to any Austrian crackheads about their local drug culture. And on the user's end the draw is that it has a faster, more intense high, and having to make your own crack before you can smoke it kind of takes away from that a bit.
And it can be prepared in a spoon for injection like heroin, but like your quote said, most of the time people prefer to smoke it.
It can also be smoked from a spoon in a pinch if they can't get their hands on a more suitable crack pipe, and giving you the benefit of the doubt that it was in fact crack, I'd bet that's what you saw, but that's a different process than what's described in whatever you quoted.