Handle of 5 + the fork of 3
Choose a number, 1-5!
Submitted 5 weeks ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/859335ac-44d9-4404-a392-4cc505a15b02.jpeg
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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I am so on board with you
Uli@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
The will of the people
Blooper@lemmynsfw.com 5 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
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Exactly
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
None of these. 2 has the best tines, but the handle sucks. These look like forks you’d find in a diner.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 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
Brownboy13@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Handle needs some kind of texture, or else may become slippery.
yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 5 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.
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Dave@lemmy.nz 5 weeks ago
Personally I don’t like that handle either. Needs to be thicker.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 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.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Round handles don’t let me know the rotation so hard pass from me.
Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 5 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?
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
This is the cutlery I have!
What’s it called? I need more!
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
WeaselOne@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
- Slim fork, wide handle.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 5 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.
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I can taste that flared base agaist my hard palate
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
A scholar and a gentleman
mittyta@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I hate them! Because can’t fit to dishwasher basket
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Top rack is the solution! Or a basket that doesn’t have slots, just the basket.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
None. They’re all stamped from thin sheet metal. Tines and handles are too thin and will bend.
recentSloth43@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Definitely 2. All other answers are just plain wrong.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
2 is the only one with an acceptable handle!
Zentron@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
And points are actually pointy
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 5 weeks ago
Apostrophe catastrophe.
Oh, there are forks: #2.
digger@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
This is exactly what I thought, and in the same order.
wolfpack86@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Head of 2, body of 5.
Korne127@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is the correct answer
mister_flibble@lemm.ee 5 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.
Czombolero@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is the only correct answer
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Nah just two all round
pitiable_sandwich540@feddit.org 5 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…
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
2, assuming the broad pommel is a counterweight. If it’s flimsy lightweight material then none of them.
Veneroso@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Getting aboard the #2 train
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah, longest tines wins.
AA5B@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
2 has the best tunes but that huge duckbill handle is a non-starter. 5 has the best handle
hansolo@lemm.ee 5 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?
adm@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
[deleted]Burninator05@lemmy.world 5 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.
RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
2
phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
This is the only correct answer
Roundeyegweilo@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
It’s 2 and it ain’t even close
CherryBullets@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Obviously #2, but with a slightly smaller handle tip and that’s about it.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 5 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.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
I’d pick 5 but none of these look all that comfy
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
2 with 5s handle suppremacy
myrrh@ttrpg.network 5 weeks ago
…get that f*ucking plural-comma out of my face…
^(1 head + 5 handle)^
TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
- Neurodivergent’s what?
OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You don’t have to be neurodivergent to have an opinion about fork shapes. Also 2 is the best.
needthosepylons@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
reactionality@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Neurodivergents*
olafurp@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s a trick question, they’re all bad.
(I have autism)
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Wrong sub. Post here
RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 5 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
melisdrawing@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
2, but the base is a bit wide. Am I on the list now?
RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
2
Wutchilli@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
2 No discussion, the weight, the smoothness, ist all about how they lay in the Hand.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
2 but its a bit big
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
2, and only 2.
RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 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.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Looks like 4 has wider tines… and a couple others.
Wilco@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Yep, number two is the best.
Give us a harder choice.
Kattiydid@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
Agreed, none of the others are balanced properly or have good flow. Number two is the only option.
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
2 is definitely the best-machined. Quality manufacturing right there.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
5 looks well made too. I like a slightly spooked fork though.
Image
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Has a stupid handle
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Stupid but comfy. ☺️
arakhis_@feddit.org 5 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
Uli@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
It is clear to me that the only explanation for your preference is nostalgia.
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 5 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.