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What is your favorite utensil, and why?

Take my poll please. If you prefer a sub-category of utensil (e.g., butter knife, soup spoon) please say so along with the reason for your fondness for it.

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by Anonymousreply 26September 29, 2024 2:49 AM

Fork!

Because tines.

by Anonymousreply 1September 28, 2024 5:23 AM

Knife because what makes you think I won’t cut you?

by Anonymousreply 2September 28, 2024 5:24 AM

Spoon because ice cream.

by Anonymousreply 3September 28, 2024 5:25 AM

I have collected an obscure Edwardian silver pattern for years and my favorite piece is the ice cream forks. They were sporks before sporks. I use them mainly when I serve a creamed seafood or chicken dish.

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by Anonymousreply 4September 28, 2024 5:26 AM

R3, YTF.

by Anonymousreply 5September 28, 2024 5:35 AM

Stealth Greg thread

by Anonymousreply 6September 28, 2024 5:46 AM

Comb, for salads.

by Anonymousreply 7September 28, 2024 5:47 AM

The spoon. It's both the first utensil you're fed with as well as the last.

by Anonymousreply 8September 28, 2024 9:14 AM

Eating: Spoon. Works as spoon and fork if you're as pathetic as I am.

Cooking: A silicone large spoon for Le Creuset. But I've recently (and far too lately) discovered the "pasta spoon" to take the pasta out of the pot, which I now use because lifting and draining pasta into a colander from a full pot of boiling water has become difficult. So tie for this category.

Preparing: My decades-old Cutco trimmer knife.

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by Anonymousreply 9September 28, 2024 9:30 AM

Spork, so versatile, multipurpose and rational, especially when one edge is serrated

I would love some like R4 has, those combine the above features with some Victorian/ Edwardian elegance. Most sporks are plastic and disposable

by Anonymousreply 10September 28, 2024 12:02 PM

I will stan the humble spatula

The only utensil with spittle in its name

by Anonymousreply 11September 28, 2024 12:19 PM

I adore the Soup Spoon because I’m lazy.

I was jealous of visiting British friends who stacked food upon a tine-down fork with squished bread to keep things tidy. It looked logical and classy when they did it. When I tried, there was too much food and I had to chew like a cow.

by Anonymousreply 12September 28, 2024 12:29 PM

Any that bend.

by Anonymousreply 13September 28, 2024 12:48 PM

R9, so you drain your pasta?

by Anonymousreply 14September 28, 2024 1:24 PM

I eat with my hands

by Anonymousreply 15September 28, 2024 1:26 PM

[quote] I eat with my hands

I abhor the term "handhelds".

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by Anonymousreply 16September 28, 2024 6:02 PM

SPATULA!

by Anonymousreply 17September 28, 2024 6:05 PM

I've been trying to get the coz to stop using his hands and instead use a sharp rock to smash up the hard clumps.

by Anonymousreply 18September 28, 2024 7:23 PM

I get the DL joke allusion, r14, but do you suppose I eat pasta WITH or IN its cooking water? DO YOU?!

You meant to write "rinse," I think. In which case: Only idiots rinse pasta.

by Anonymousreply 19September 28, 2024 7:23 PM

I only rinse with a spoon

by Anonymousreply 20September 28, 2024 7:30 PM

A coke spoon

by Anonymousreply 21September 28, 2024 10:16 PM

I love salad forks because they are so dainty, but I hate sorting them from the dishwasher into the drawer. Unless I’m holding a full-size fork for comparison, I’m never completely sure which subspecies a given fork belongs to.

by Anonymousreply 22September 29, 2024 2:02 AM

Pessary.

by Anonymousreply 23September 29, 2024 2:07 AM

The runcible spoon.

by Anonymousreply 24September 29, 2024 2:24 AM

[quote] I get the DL joke allusion, [R14], but do you suppose I eat pasta WITH or IN its cooking water? DO YOU?!

I do not sleep in my clothes, nor do I sleep in the same room with them!

by Anonymousreply 25September 29, 2024 2:25 AM

Teeth

by Anonymousreply 26September 29, 2024 2:49 AM
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