I have a drawer filled with two sets of silverware: a heavy,solid walmart set,and a cheap,thin dollar store set. The dollar store set you look at them funny and they’re bent. The walmart set,tho,I believe you could commit homicide with one and it would still be fine. Nice and heavy,good feel in the hands. The dollar store set feels like a child’s play set. I despise them but my wife won’t let me throw them out. If I have to use the flimsy ones I too will skip a meal,or wash one of the good utensils.
At age 35 you should be considering throwing out (well, donating) the misc silverware for a matching set, I think. This was more of an issue in my 20s when my silverware was all mismatching.
For some reason mismatched silverware always bothered me.
It is one of the first things I purchased when I moved out of my parents house, and I’ve had a complete set of matching silverware since.
…except for one spoon. I have one spoon my great grandmother gave me that I’ve held onto for over 40 years that doesn’t match. That spoon is only used for eating ice cream.
Yeah, it’s funny, I’ve replaced almost all of my silverware but I still have a couple of spoons that are from the set my parents had when I was growing up. It’s an oddly nostalgic thing.
My mom’s house was like this. When we inherited my grandma’s nicely molded and weighted set she just put them all in the drawer together with the cheap but decent set we already had. She then went and added a cheap amazon stamped sheet metal set, which was painted black so it didn’t even match a little bit, on top of it all.
Drove me nuts until I could finally move out and buy a single cohesive set for my drawer.
What? You can apply as much pressure and area as far as your chopsticks can spread. If anything, it’s more control because you can hold them close together for smaller pieces or spread your chopsticks out wider than 2-3 forks.
Doesn’t matter, u can cover a wider range of surface area. If u spread out the chopsticks about once inch apart, they cover the same distance as forks. Just apply as much pressure as needed
Eating chips/popcorn without getting dust on your fingers. For stabbing if it’s something thick or you can cross them like an X to use them as makeshift scissors. They’re just lightweight tongs and their precision allows for a range from a single grain of rice to an entire steak. It’s just a matter of mastery.
As a bonus they’re wooden so they don’t ruin my cookware when I scrape. You see wooden spoons but rarely wooden forks.
I also have a spoon, a butter knife, and a steak knife, that I all hate for no reason, that I actively put back if I accidentally grab them to get something else.
I hate them so much that I will just skip eating if thats all in the drawer and I dont feel like doing dishes.
I’m in my mid 40s and many of my cutlery had names. I’m not kidding. There’s Mack, the knife. Then there’s “gitty”, a fork from git. There’s “Hulk”, my favorite mother-of-Pearl egg spoon (from “spoony god”, got it?!?), another fork named “cleetus”, another knife called “Aragorn”, a huge serving spoon called “Schaffer” (a German thing, from “schaffen”, getting it done), an old knife called Emily (cause it’s blunt), a fork called “Becki” from Bakelite, it’s end of made from it (no dishwasher for Becki, ever), a 2 prong fork called “Chris”, from Christopher Pike, the star Trek captain, “butters” the butter knife, “Ichi”, the Japanese crazy Sharp straight knife, regularly sharpened on “Neil” and “Kappa”, the diamond and the water stone and the list goes on and on. Don’t ask about the other stuff, like “Wicket”, the electric wok. E-wok. Right. That one. I guess, it became kind of a hobby.
I have one fork with extra long tines. Dunno where it came from. But every time I grab it, I’m like “Yo, long boi! Youre not going to stab me this time are you?”
And the long fork does not assure me that its not going to stab me this time, because it does not like to lie.
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