Choose a number, 1-5!

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• phoenixarise@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  2, and only 2.

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  • RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dont you love when you stick your fork into a potato and end up cutting the fucker in half? Thats what these wide tines do.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Looks like 4 has wider tines… and a couple others.

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  • Wilco@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yep, number two is the best.

    Give us a harder choice.

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  • Kattiydid@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Agreed, none of the others are balanced properly or have good flow. Number two is the only option.

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  • DoubleDongle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    2 is definitely the best-machined. Quality manufacturing right there.

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      5 looks well made too. I like a slightly spooked fork though.

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  • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Has a stupid handle

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    • phoenixarise@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Stupid but comfy. ☺️

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  • arakhis_@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was like this, then I saw the handle. That being said its still 2 but its very close and it could be better still like the 1 or 5 handle

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  • Uli@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is clear to me that the only explanation for your preference is nostalgia.

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    • phoenixarise@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t understand. I think the handle would work best for my hands, and the prongs are just the right size for me.

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• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Handle of 5 + the fork of 3

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  • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am so on board with you

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  • Uli@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The will of the people

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  • Blooper@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Aesthetics - #5 is the obvious choice Handling/ grip comfort - #5 wins again Scooping/horizontal food retention - #5 with its slight bowl-shaped head Tine shape - #2 wins out for sheer uniformity

    Final answer

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  • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Exactly

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• Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  None of these. 2 has the best tines, but the handle sucks. These look like forks you’d find in a diner.

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Agreed. 5 has the best handle of the bunch, but all these were stamped from thin, stainless sheet steel, rather than forged from thicker plate. 5 has a better finish than the rest, but the tines are a train wreck.

    Here is the perfect fork: Image

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    • Brownboy13@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Handle needs some kind of texture, or else may become slippery.

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    • yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yup. I’ve never really felt compelled to steal anything at all in my life, but I found some silverware like this at a restaurant one time and I don’t think I had much of a choice.

      Once I felt that ideal shape in my hand, with the perfect amount of heft distributed exactly as it should be, I knew I could never go back to using regular flat silverware.

      The waiter caught me trying to clumsily hide the one set, and then he brought me a second one to take home as a gift. It was one of the nicest things, I’ll never forget it.

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    • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Allow me to introduce you to my favorite fork. I feel like yours would rotate in the hand while applying downward cutting force.

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    • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Personally I don’t like that handle either. Needs to be thicker.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Damn, that is the most perfect fork I’ve seen, wow.

      Yeah I was gonna say 2’s prong/head with 5’s handle would probably be the best out of what’s available in the OP image, but yours is… sublime, hah.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Round handles don’t let me know the rotation so hard pass from me.

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    • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I completely agree with you that all forks in the image suck. The part that you stick into the food shouldn’t be rounded like that, it should be straight, so when you take it out of your mouth, it glides through your lips uniformly without some weird bumps. It should also have enough space in between the thingys, so you don’t just cut your food in half when sticking it in. Then the handle, there’s no reason for it not to be straight either. My hand doesn’t have weird bumps like that, so the handle shouldn’t either. It should also not be that flat, so it’s nicer to grip.

      Once I move out of my parents house, I’m definitely gonna buy forks like the one in your image. This is the best fork I’ve ever seen. Everything is straight without weird bump, it’s not gonna cut my food in half and the handle is thick, so it’s nice to grip. I don’t understand how people who design things like this just don’t think about making them nice to use. Do they stop themselves from thinking about how the thing they make would actually be used or what?

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    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is the cutlery I have!

      What’s it called? I need more!

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Please skip to 1:59

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  on this topic:
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  This is a cutlery model sold by a specific store chain here in sweden some decades ago, i fucking adore how simple and proletarian it is, it’s absolutely ubiquitous even to this day.
  Like IKEA things but cheaper and higher quality.

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My grandparents had those!

    Am Swede

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• Pofski@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  2

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  • Dadifer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Obviously

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• WeaselOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  2. Slim fork, wide handle.

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  • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Damn right. I have 4 2s and 4 4s and it’s a sad day when I’ve been too lazy to do the dishes and only have 4s left to use.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can taste that flared base agaist my hard palate

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A scholar and a gentleman

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  • mittyta@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hate them! Because can’t fit to dishwasher basket

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Top rack is the solution! Or a basket that doesn’t have slots, just the basket.

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• Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  None. They’re all stamped from thin sheet metal. Tines and handles are too thin and will bend.

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• recentSloth43@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Definitely 2. All other answers are just plain wrong.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    2 is the only one with an acceptable handle!

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    • Zentron@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And points are actually pointy

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• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Apostrophe catastrophe.

  Oh, there are forks: #2.

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  • digger@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is exactly what I thought, and in the same order.

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• wolfpack86@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Head of 2, body of 5.

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  • Korne127@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is the correct answer

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  • mister_flibble@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, the actual fork bit of 2 is nice but I don’t like utensils with dump truck ass; they’re top heavy when in use.

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  • Czombolero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is the only correct answer

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  • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah just two all round

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  • pitiable_sandwich540@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I agree, but if we could include the prong to base ratio of 4, that’d be great. I feel like 2’s head is to… idk, flimsy? Either the base should extend further or the prongs be shorter. Great shape otherwise though…

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    • wolfpack86@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      4 looks too spork like. No thanks

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  2, assuming the broad pommel is a counterweight. If it’s flimsy lightweight material then none of them.

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  • Veneroso@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Getting aboard the #2 train

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  • Tikiporch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, longest tines wins.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    2 has the best tunes but that huge duckbill handle is a non-starter. 5 has the best handle

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  • hansolo@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All of this is exactly right. #2 is the least cringe-inducing because of the lumpy bottom.

    Is this fork thing an official diagnosis metric? Or just not yet?

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  • adm@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Burninator05@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Five is out because its outer tines are curved. There is no reason for that and that is why I hate it.

      One, however, is the best. I find it eat slower (and often less) if my silverware isn’t the size of a pitchfork.

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• phlegmy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Those all suck. This one is the perfect fork

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• Roundeyegweilo@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s 2 and it ain’t even close

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• RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  2

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• CherryBullets@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Obviously #2, but with a slightly smaller handle tip and that’s about it.

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• Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They all have problems. If i have to pick any one of them its going to be 2, but i won’t be happy about it.

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• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d pick 5 but none of these look all that comfy

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• biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  2 with 5s handle suppremacy

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• myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  …get that f*ucking plural-comma out of my face…

  ^(1 head + 5 handle)^

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• TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  2. Neurodivergent’s what?

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• OccamsRazer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You don’t have to be neurodivergent to have an opinion about fork shapes. Also 2 is the best.

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• needthosepylons@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The present is now, old fella

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Six.

  Look at this fork. LOOK AT IT. Now, calm down.

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• reactionality@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Neurodivergents*

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• olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a trick question, they’re all bad.

  (I have autism)

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• RedAggroBest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  2.The crazies here who don’t think that’s the best head by so much that the handle doesn’t matter, they scare me. No amount of bad handle can make up for how much I hate the rest of them

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• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wrong sub. Post here

  lemmynsfw.com/c/ifyouhadtopickone

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• melisdrawing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  2, but the base is a bit wide. Am I on the list now?

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• RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  2

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• Wutchilli@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  2 No discussion, the weight, the smoothness, ist all about how they lay in the Hand.

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