• Siegfried@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

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

    Many go for 2, but they are just thinking about using it, not cleaning it. More surface to clean plus extra volume which fills quicker the place where forks, knives and spoons are stored till they dry

  • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
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    17 days ago

    2 if I’m cutting with a knife, 3 for cake, 5 for pie, 1 for a shitty salad bar salad, and 4 for that hard to reach spot between the shoulder blades.

  • enkers@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    None of these. 2 has the best tines, but the handle sucks. These look like forks you’d find in a diner. Rounded outer tines is a crime against humanity. Did you maybe want a spork instead? 😡

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      17 days 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:

      • Dave@lemmy.nz
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        17 days ago

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

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        17 days 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.

        • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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          17 days ago

          I was going to say “2 but with 5’s handle and if you say 1 I am going to” but I couldn’t think of a silly threat that would be absurd but in a funny way

      • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        17 days 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?

      • Yardy Sardley@lemmy.ca
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        17 days 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
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        16 days ago

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

        • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          16 days ago

          Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark…

  • MTK@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Why would this not apply to neurotypicals? seems to me that most people would have at least a slight preference

    • Comrade Spood@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      17 days ago

      My guess is neurodivergents tend to be more militant in our preferences because the factors that affect the choice weigh a lot heavier on us. Like how loud crowded areas aren’t really pleasant for anyone, but it can be down right crippling for neurodivergents because of how severe the over stimulation is.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I agree, but “slight” is the operative word here. I’m autistic and there are some cutlery that feel so unpleasant in my hand that I can barely force myself to use them. In the past, it has even resulted in me hardly eating (when the lack of good cutlery was due to the nice ones being missing rather than just dirty). I felt very silly that I was letting myself go hungry over an irrational preference, but I find that some battles aren’t worth fighting.

      I have also found that other neurodivergent people often have strong opinions on cutlery, which has been a wee source of solidarity. I think that, in addition to the concrete reality of people’s preferences, there’s a reinforcing cycle where once a cultural thing becomes associated with a particular group, there will be in-group jokes made about that association, which reinforces the link. That is to say that the relevance of this meme somewhat transcends the reality of the relative frequency of neurodivergent people having strong opinions on cutlery

    • someacnt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I am wondering the opposite as a neurodivergent. Why aren’t all of them kind of fine? Like, one is going to be better than the other, but it seems like a hard pick.

      Maybe I am too autistic to consider about forks.

  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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    17 days ago

    My fork is the correct fork. None of these are my fork.

    In the event of a fork loss, any of these forks could become my fork after a period of time, probably about a month or so until it felt right.