Taking this post as a platform to rally against cutlery that isn't fashioned from a single piece of metal but has a useless metal or plastic handle. When you take them out of the dishwasher, a pool of warm, stagnant , vaguely soap-smelling water will pour out onto your wrist and wet your sleeve and my week is ruined.
For the record, I haven't experienced this in years but I carry the trauma.
Laughed, then saw the community… uh oh
I bought us a nice, thick , chromatic set.
kids lost a spoon here and there and now... we have this hodge podge of shit silverware.
when grabbing for me, I reach for the chromatic set every time.
the other ones are mostly too sharp around the edges, too heavy, or just too flimsy.
For me it's one of the two sets my parents use. One set is smooth, shiny, and nice to hold. The other has lots of detail which looks neat, but is unenjoyable to hold. So I avoid them whenever I can.
Damn you guys are making me doubt my sanity way too much with these posts…
We call ours “special fork”.
Fsck that fork specifically
Does it count if by 28 I have one fork I like and the rest I only tolerate? My preferred fork is a plain one, not unlike fourth from left while all the others are more textured than any of those present here. I'm used to them from having forks like that all my life but I like the simple one most.
Mine is a spoon that is different from all the other… and it is specifically for cat food.
If I had to use a teaspoon as a fork I'd hate it too.
Someone put a tiny camping cutlery set in the drawer. I balk everytime I accidentally grab the baby fork.
I have a compulsion... At every restaurant I go to, I inspect their fork. Specifically, I check to see if the tines are aligned. If they aren't, the first thing I do is start bending them so that they are aligned. I do it subconsciously if I'm by myself. But in polite company, often I cover my compulsion by making some sort of joke about being a food blogger or similar.
I only have one left out of the set that I like from my parents’ first marriage.
Mine is a three pronged one 🤮
I've disowned that plate. Its only duty is to support the hot plates that come out of the microwave. It's become the Cinderella of my kitchen.
Throw it out?
A couple of years ago I threw out all my old basic cutlery (forks, spoons, butter knives etc.) and bought a whole new matched set of good quality. It cost less than I imagined. Never had a single ounce of regret, I love having a nice matched set and not having to dig through to get out a good pair for dinner.
The old stuff got donated to a local club, who were happy to have it in their big pot of cutlery.
Haha it's true. I've always had hand me downs and I finally got the first time bought a set. It's pretty glorious. Side note, definitely hammy downs in my head)
Mine are a whole category of forks and spoons. I want my forks and spoons to have a completely flat underside with rounded corners. The underside should not be concave because it makes the edges of the fork or spoon too sharp and dig into my finger bones too much. A convex underside puts too much weight onto the center of the surface making it uncomfortable for my middle finger then as well. Oh, and they have to be completely smooth with no texture because I don't like rough textures rubbing against my fingers while I eat.
I started this in toddlerhood lol
Nah, it's not with the others.
That is an ugly fucking fork.
The thin one! I need my fork to have some heft to it so I don't think I'm sticking a galvanized aluminum abomination in my mouth.
…wait this isn’t a neurotypical thing?
Chaotic neutral.
I have a whole set that I HATE. I put them in backward so I don't pick one up by accident.
In my previous house we had utensil fairies who willfully would hide all the forks or spoons around the house to thwart our use of cutlery for eating. They fixated on one or the other, so our draw would be flush with forks but lacking in spoons or vice versa.
Eventually I just gave up and started supplying new infusions of new flatware. As the internet matured (and with the help of girlfriends in the restaurant industry) I'd find restaurant suppliers who'd set me up with just spoons or just forks, rather than full dining sets.
After seventeen years of this, I left, with the war for cutlery ongoing.
My roommate added a fork to my silverware drawer. It was probably thrown away.
Why do you have my forks? I thought I had a very unique set.
Fortunately, trash can is nearby
I have one spoon that's matte instead of shiny because I used it to dig a hole when I didn't have a trowel.
1st fork on the left - I have 1
4th fork from the left - I have 1, this is my favorite fork
Middle fork- I have a handful
2nd to last fork on the right - I have a handful, decent forks.
Not pictured - that piece of garbage that I have no idea where it came from, that's somehow simultaneously too small to fit in with the other big forks, and too big to fit in with the small forks. And to top it off, its shape makes it terrible at twirling spaghetti. I seriously don't know why I still have that piece of junk.
I got rid of the fork I hated, but I have a spoon I love.
my parent's wedding cutlery in the form of like 10 knives are these, the fancy curved grips piss me off.
if there are only wedding knives left, i'd rather clean a dirty regular knife. the rectangular grips are way better.
Mine are two very different steak knives. One's got a plastic handle and really fine serration on the blade and it is terrible at cutting steak. The other is effectively a fucking hacksaw with a wooden handle bolted around the tang and it is a horror to behold. They're for when we need a knife and don't want to involve the good cutlery.
I have a fork that I can't stand. The prongs are completely flat, but it still has the bend between the handle and prongs. I hate holding it
Yes but I threw them out when I moved into my new place.
No. I only have matching cutlery. You're 40, you should be able to afford things you like.
I've been using a lot of disposable items. I also require it from the neckbeards who live downstairs, because it never gets washed otherwise. I've had them throw tantrums about how wasteful it is, but I've been buying paper plates and compostable plastic utensils that can be thrown in a compost pile outside.
This isn't me with a specific utensil, but for things like soup/cereal bowls, cups, measuring cups, and pott and pans all go in a specific area for lack of space reasons. I hate a singular pot because we have a set that fits together nicely and then there's the pot that can't fit with the others but fits perfectly in the smallest pan we have. It's not a big deal, but it's the soul reason I hate it (besides when my dad puts away dishes and puts that pot with the others).
