2! No other answer is correct!
Choose a number, 1-5!
Submitted 11 months ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/859335ac-44d9-4404-a392-4cc505a15b02.jpeg
Comments
wanderwisley@lemm.ee 11 months ago
j4k3@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
UnityDevice@lemmy.zip 11 months 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.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Handle of 5 + the fork of 3
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Exactly
Blooper@lemmynsfw.com 11 months 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
Uli@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
The will of the people
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I am so on board with you
WhatSay@slrpnk.net 11 months 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.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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.
breakingcups@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You cut bananas with forks?
LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
You can cut bananas with anything, including another banana if you would like to make a little mess while doing it
copymyjalopy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
3
10MeterFeldweg@feddit.org 11 months ago
5, mostly because I am using those for over 2 decades now and all other feel somehow wrong.
funkajunk@lemm.ee 11 months ago
2 GANG RISE UP
Wutchilli@feddit.org 11 months ago
2 No discussion, the weight, the smoothness, ist all about how they lay in the Hand.
obinice@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
otacon239@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I guess I’m picky. I don’t like any of these lol.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The pointy handle on number 3 is OFFENSIVE
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All of #3 is torture
sunnie@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
- 3 and 4 are acceptable, 2 and 5 are a crime. i dont get y’all
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Glad to see my undiagnosed disorder is alive and well. #2 crew represent.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 months ago
1, obviously
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 11 months ago
5 is an IKEA fork
Source: I have an IKEA fork
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think at least three of these are from IKEA.
Source: I live in IKEA-Land
TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
- Neurodivergent’s what?
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Neurodivergent is which
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
None of these. 2 has the best tines, but the handle sucks. These look like forks you’d find in a diner.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 11 months 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
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Round handles don’t let me know the rotation so hard pass from me.
Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months 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?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months 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.
yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 11 months 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.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
This is the cutlery I have!
What’s it called? I need more!
Brownboy13@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Handle needs some kind of texture, or else may become slippery.
Dave@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
Personally I don’t like that handle either. Needs to be thicker.
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 11 months ago
2, and only 2.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Has a stupid handle
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Stupid but comfy. ☺️
arakhis_@feddit.org 11 months 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
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
2 is definitely the best-machined. Quality manufacturing right there.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Kattiydid@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Agreed, none of the others are balanced properly or have good flow. Number two is the only option.
Uli@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
It is clear to me that the only explanation for your preference is nostalgia.
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Wilco@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yep, number two is the best.
Give us a harder choice.
RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months 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 11 months ago
Looks like 4 has wider tines… and a couple others.
shadowDingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
i only eat spoons, they taste better
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Makes perfect sense to me
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
2
Norodix@lemmy.world 11 months ago
2 and 5. 1 is fine, i hate the others.
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
2 and 5 are also fine at best. Good cutlery needs to have a proper “thick” handles, these all look cheap and unergonomic.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 11 months ago
4 looks better balanced and crafty enough. 5 looks like a dessert fork