favorite fork

[angus]

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

First, for all occasions.  Any other is unacceptable.

[Napoleon]

A spork, you dork. Other, I guess.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Who the hell eats strawberries using anything except their hands?

[Napoleon]

Who the hell eats strawberries using anything except their hands?

The 1%

[angus]

First, for all occasions.  Any other is unacceptable.

It's a fine option, no doubt.

I generally use a salad fork, myself, for all meat- and vegetable-related culinary products, unless I'm eating at KFC, in which case I use a spork.  Also, when my wife cooks we almost always use two sticks to eat, but generally for fork-related eating, I prefer the salad fork, as the medium-length, widely-spaced tynes are so versatile.  

So I voted other, for salad fork.  

[minionofmidas]

The pitch is mightier than the dinner.

[angus]

Who the hell eats strawberries using anything except their hands?

We almost always use toothpicks to skewer strawberries (and blueberries and raspberries) to eat them at home.  In restaurants, I use the salad fork to eat them, although I prefer toothpicks for that particular application and would use them liberally if a box of them were placed at my table.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Who the hell eats strawberries using anything except their hands?

We almost always use toothpicks to skewer strawberries (and blueberries and raspberries) to eat them at home.  In restaurants, I use the salad fork to eat them, although I prefer toothpicks for that particular application and would use them liberally if a box of them were placed at my table.

Fancy.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

What the fyck

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

That bloody fork in Monoprix was fine, but heck, 3,50 € one, no way.

[opebo]

Oh my goodness I wish I were rich enough to use all those forks!

Here in Thailand we only rarely use chopsticks, angus, and only for noodle soups, along with that weird little Chinese spoon.

For 90%+ of meals we use one large, heavy spoon and one large fork.. the spoon is held in the right hand and the fork in the left.  It is the most astoundingly efficient mode of eating - the Thais as always have a natural way of doing everything better, effortlessly.

King Chulalunkorn (I think it was him).. Rama V.. forced the populace to use 'western utensils', and so they immediately set about using them in the way I describe above.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

There's some great stuff about forks (and other table manner related oddities) in the first volume of Braudel's Civilisation and Capitalism.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

For 90%+ of meals we use one large, heavy spoon and one large fork.. the spoon is held in the right hand and the fork in the left.

I'd love to use one of those large spoons, as a left-handed I'd imagine this configuration would fit me, does it fit right-handed people?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

What the fyck

Anyway, this is always my response (internally anyway) to multiple forks. Why use more than one? Posh people are weird.

[Dr. Cynic]

Whichever fork I happen to grab out of the silverware drawer at the time suits me just fine for any occasion.

[opebo]

For 90%+ of meals we use one large, heavy spoon and one large fork.. the spoon is held in the right hand and the fork in the left.

I'd love to use one of those large spoons, as a left-handed I'd imagine this configuration would fit me, does it fit right-handed people?

Of course - it is natural to use the spoon in your dominant hand, as it is the utensil doing 80% of the work.  The fork is just for pushing stuff into the spoon, and occasionally stabbing something which isn't so easy to get into the spoon.  And there is no rule that you lefties can't reverse it.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Why use more than one? Posh people are weird.

Well, as a French person I can say that la fourchette à huîtres (oysters fork), and la fourchette à escargots (snails fork, oh dear you should really borrow French word if only for gastronomy vocabulary), are not some that you could find only by posh persons here.

For snails it would make sense, go try to eat snails with a normal fork. But for oysters, as well as for most of other ones if not all, yeah, I don't really see the point outside of looking fancy. That being said, I never really ate a lot of oysters, they are only eaten crude, alive, here, cooking them is an heresy, and well, the last time I ate some, it kinda...disturbed me, dunno whether it was oysters or that trou normand (an icecream ball in a glass of a strong alcohol taken in the middle of a big meal) but I never wanted to try again since then. And I had never taken much pleasure before it, was merely to look adult.

[Joe Republic]

For snails it would make sense, go try to eat snails with a normal fork.

Uh, no thanks.  We're not French.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

For snails it would make sense, go try to eat snails with a normal fork.

Uh, no thanks.  We're not French.

Poor you.

That being said I heard there was a kind of huge snails invasion in Florida, some 20 cm long ones, which would make some actual steaks, normal fork would be better for those. But, since their saliva apparently gives a kind of soft meningitis, that might not be a good idea for dinner, try the cute escragots de Bourgogne instead or the petits gris de Charente, also fancily called cagouilles in Charentais instead. Snails have no taste, it's a fancy occasion to eat a good sauce on something. ^^

Here's what the Anglo-Germanic world misses:

Escargots de Bourgogne, before:



After:



Petits gris de Charente, before:



After:

[angus]

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I never had a bad snail.  All the snails I've eaten were pretty damn tasty, and I can't recall ever haven eaten them with anything other than the fork with which I was presented, which was probably either a dinner fork, a salad fork, or maybe a lunch fork.  Well, at least it had four tynes and looked fairly unremarkable otherwise. 

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you need a fork to eat an oyster?! 

I'm not sure if I can take any of your posts seriously anymore.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I looooove escargot!

I had quite a bit in France in December

[I'm JewCon in name only.]

 i read the title of this thread wrong lol

[angus]

escargot

Despite what Trondheim says about Language being defined by an army and a navy--which is absolute poppycock, and either a joke or a delusion--you and I have the same language.  Moreover, we have a word for them in our language.  I'd prefer that you to use it in my thread.  In English, they're called snails.  And, yes, they are delicious.  As Shakespeare--whose language was the same, more or less, as yours and mine, despite his country having a navy and army distinct from yours and distinct from mine--might have said, a snail, by any other name, would taste just as earthy.  Yes, I love 'em too.  I've had quite a bit also.  I've ordered them in Dallas (at Antare's Top of the Dome), in Boston (at some gentrified spot in what used to be a very seedy Kenmore Square), in Los Angeles, in Honolulu, and in France as well.  There's really no such thing as a bad snail.  And, as far as I can tell, they do not need any sort of special utensil.  I could eat 'em with my fingers, frankly.  

But don't turn my fork thread into a snail thread.  It is a fork thread.  Thank you very much.

[Ban my account ffs!]

What the fyck

Anyway, this is always my response (internally anyway) to multiple forks. Why use more than one? Posh people are weird.

Really only if you're eating different things that shouldn't mix... like salad with dressing or a meat with sauce... and then dessert.  It's nice to have a separate fork... though the size or shape of the fork is of secondary importance.

I prefer a dinner fork, option 1, for almost all applications.