Comment on With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?

• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A small fork is generally considered the “correct” cutlery for cake in Denmark

  I must have missed that memo, but I completely agree. It’s just the best tool for the job.

  Obviously a teaspoon serves the purpose just as well

  No they don’t.

  And we are not a pretentious people

  Neither am I. My preference is purely practical.

  many don’t even have the forks

  That’s fair. I only have them because I got some as a cheap “here, have this too” Christmas gift a couple years ago.

  Before that, I had no idea how much better they are for the purpose than tea spoons.

  Since they are pretty useless for anything else

  Mostly true, but you’re allowed to own specialized cutlery, just like you’re allowed to own kitchen appliances that do a specific thing better than others that do more things.

  So the small forks are basically superfluous. not strictly necessary, but DEFINITELY useful

  Fixed it for you.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I must have missed that memo

    Maybe you are not old enough, such things used to be way more important half a century ago.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, half a century ago, I was minutes seven years old 🤷🏻

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I suppose you mean “minus” instead of minutes.
        I suspected something of that sort. Back then using teaspoons was considered somewhat casual.
        And now you find the old ways kind of neat. Yes the old cake fork has a slight advantage in that it can be used as a fork, and it typically has an edge to “cut” if it’s a proper one. But in reality those “advantages” don’t really matter, at least not for most people.
        A cake can be cut with a teaspoon just as well, and for most cakes the fork function doesn’t really work, and in my experience the fork is used as a spoon anyway.

        But hey, have fun. Do what you like. 😀

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  • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I moved to Denmark a few years ago, and have been picking up a line of cutlery whenever I see stuff I need in red cross stores. I have small tea spoons, big tea spoons, and one tiny cake fork.

    I prefer the smaller tea spoons not only for ice cream cake, but anything served with ice cream. So typically that’s also a lot of pies. The fork is better for dry crumbly cakes, but the spoons are better for creamy cakes. I wouldn’t eat a tiramisu with a fork if I have a spoon available.

    The bigger tea spoons I mostly only use for yogurt and stuff like that.

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