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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    4 looks better balanced and crafty enough. 5 looks like a dessert fork

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  • wanderwisley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    2! No other answer is correct!

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  • j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    5 is definitely the best. It offers a thicker handle edge for cutting and did not require a stamping bend on thinner material to add rigidity. The rounded head and outer tines serve two purposes. One it offers a smaller controlled side contact like the profile of a chef’s knife that will focus more force at the contact point allowing for better contact with the plate and shearing more efficiently. Second, the rounded outer edge will fit the contour of a bowl allowing a fork to efficiently manage rice or other small items down to the last bite with nothing remaining. The larger outer tines and shorter overall length is also more durable and resistant to bending. It cost far more to make number 5 and the design functionality came ahead of the operations cost, and materials stock selection. All of the others were made according to the minimum number of forming operations and thin stock.

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    • UnityDevice@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly! Everyone is saying 2, but 2 is way too long for comfortable cutting, and that’s a very important feature of a fork - unless all you’re eating with it is very very soft.

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If eating with stamped metal utensils things must be cut by a knife. 5 will be warped just as fast, plus the curved edge means it will do a horrible job of cutting while it bends.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Handle of 5 + the fork of 3

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    • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly

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    • Blooper@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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    • Uli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The will of the people

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    • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I am so on board with you

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  • WhatSay@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Idk without holding them. But probably not 2 or 5

    I’m very picky about kitchenware, it’s like I have to listen to my inner grandma.

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My fingies hurt just looking at them. Half of them will bend when cutting a banana, and the other half will split your skin when you try.

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    • breakingcups@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You cut bananas with forks?

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      • LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You can cut bananas with anything, including another banana if you would like to make a little mess while doing it

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  • copymyjalopy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    3

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  • 10MeterFeldweg@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    5, mostly because I am using those for over 2 decades now and all other feel somehow wrong.

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  • funkajunk@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    2 GANG RISE UP

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  • Wutchilli@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hard to say. It’s 1 or 3.

    2 has an annoying bulbous handle that upsets the balance, 5 is an utter nightmare of awful.

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  • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess I’m picky. I don’t like any of these lol.

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The pointy handle on number 3 is OFFENSIVE

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      All of #3 is torture

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  • sunnie@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    1. 3 and 4 are acceptable, 2 and 5 are a crime. i dont get y’all
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  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Glad to see my undiagnosed disorder is alive and well. #2 crew represent.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    1, obviously

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  • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    5 is an IKEA fork

    Source: I have an IKEA fork

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think at least three of these are from IKEA.

      Source: I live in IKEA-Land

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  • TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    1. Neurodivergent’s what?
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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Neurodivergent is which

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  • Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Please skip to 1:59

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    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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      • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

        Image

        Image

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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      • yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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      • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is the cutlery I have!

        What’s it called? I need more!

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      • Brownboy13@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • phoenixarise@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    2, and only 2.

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    • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Has a stupid handle

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      • phoenixarise@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Stupid but comfy. ☺️

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    • arakhis_@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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    • DoubleDongle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • Kattiydid@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • Uli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • phoenixarise@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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    • Wilco@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep, number two is the best.

      Give us a harder choice.

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    • RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • shadowDingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    i only eat spoons, they taste better

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Makes perfect sense to me

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  • MrQuallzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    2

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  • Norodix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    2 and 5. 1 is fine, i hate the others.

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    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      2 and 5 are also fine at best. Good cutlery needs to have a proper “thick” handles, these all look cheap and unergonomic.

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