I have one that's just too fucking cold and heavy
I have one that's just too fucking cold and heavy
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I have been using the same spoon for breakfast cereal for at least ten years, now. Not that I always eat cereal for breakfast.
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And it will never he broken or used up because you never use it.
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All the 'bad' forks (Mostly ones that followed me home from the dining hall back in college) are banished to a cup in my house. They get used for not quite food tasks, like mashing up the cat's food.
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i mean the shape is just wrong
i mean it is perfectly functional, easy to use, etc. but ... wrong -
I don't like unmatching cutlery. Every fork needs to be the same style and bent at the same angle so they can "spoon" neatly in the drawer. (Yes, incorrect the bend when I see one who deviates) What kind of monster do you think I am.
In fact, that's why my wife and I live in different apartments. Her drawer loons like the thrift shop cutlery box. 😱
Edit: I'm just reading that people consider forks "bad" when the times are unaligned. It's quite easy to align them. I check them after each wash. Using a knife to slightly bend them in place does the trick.
I always wonder what happened to forks in other houses where they are all bent. Do people chew on them?
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My gf just got some copper forks. I think I'll have to move out
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I don't see that you've got any alternative
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.. and 2 knives i hate.
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The heavy, thick utensils are my favorites.
But, really, since the kid moved out, and I'm alone now, I only use the utensils I need, and I use the same ones every day, washing as I go. Fork, spoon, sharp knife for cooking, small bowl-plate, large bowl-plate, coffee mug, big insulated cup for cold drinks, and a pair of clicky tongs.
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My wife and I made the 32-hour drive to surprise my parents years back in 2018. I hadn't been home to visit for quite some time after having moved out of country. While there, I came across a particular fork that I realized I had favored my entire life and had all but forgotten about after moving away. It was completely unlike the other (albeit somewhat mismatched) forks in their collection. It featured four slightly shorter, slightly sharper tines, seperated in the center by a wider, deeper gap than found between the rest of them, and with fancier metalwork along the handle. As I held that trusty piece in my hand, I felt as though I had been reunited with something I never realized I had lost. It was like having a mannerism pointed out that you didn't realize you've been doing, but have grown hyper-aware of it now. This was my fork. This was an extension of myself practically worthy of a name.
So I took it. Unapologetically. I simply informed my parents that I had found my fork, and then I took it. I carried it 1,794 mi (2,410 km) back to where she belonged, and I've used that fork nearly every evening of my life ever since, for the past 6 or 7 years.
This is her here. Look upon her gently. See how she glints in the light.. They say that the elves have a special word for her, though I've never heard it spoken.. But I know how it sounds in my heart.
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OH, cool. I swear that I inherited that same fork from my grandmother's forks when she passed.
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That's a nice fucken fork right there
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I'm happy you've been reunited with your fork.
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I love your story. I think that's a dessert fork? I'm not totally sure. Cherish it 😍
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I think you're right. There's another post here that shows the actual lineup from the set that fork is from, and there's another fork there with longer tines and no fancy cutout in the middle. That would be the "regular" fork, and this one would be the desert fork.... Or it could be a salad fork? Seems short for salad tho.
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I think my mom has this same fork. I don't feel any spiritual connection to it though. So, maybe I'm not the one.
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... i think i have this fork. We had only the long ones in rotation and then i discovered the rest of the set and put them in service. I prefer yhe short ones for balance reasons. Especially in an empty bowl.
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It is an Oneida Cantata if anyone else was curious.
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Oh, that is fancy, by the sound of it.. (and absolutely correct!)
Google says they were produced between 1991 and 2003, so it checks out. I've also confirmed the "Community Stainless" stamp on the back for authenticity. She's a genuine Oneida Cantata.
Oneida: a member of an Indigenous people originally inhabiting what is now upper New York State, one of the five peoples comprising the original Iroquois confederacy.
Cantata: a medium-length narrative piece of music for voices with instrumental accompainment, typically with solos, chorus, and orchestra.
These elves were from up-state New York.
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omg I'm holding it right now.
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Screw that noise. When i moved into my own place, I bought a matching set of silverware and they are all still here a decade later. Hated having 27 different styles of cutlery.
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We did that too. But as the meme says I have one fork that doesn't fit, I don't know where it came from, but there's times when it's been the only available fork, and so I won't just get rid of it.
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If you threw it out you'd probably just do the dishes one fork earlier
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I have this 3 pronged fork that's not quite small and not quite big that has weird fat prongs with a point at the end of each prong, I've actually picked it up lion king style and told it's a failure of a fork and I only keep it around to punish it.
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If I find random cutlery in my drawer that doesn't match the matching adult cutlery that I purchased so we can look like adults...I chuck it into the recycle bin. I don't care anymore. I don't know how they get there and make them disappear.
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dude at least wash it and take it to the local thrift store where they can sell it for practically nothing
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I wonder if they ever sell those
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I bought a full matching set around that age and donated the rest. I felt like a supreme human being. Years later... where the fuck did these rogue forks and spoons come from?
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I’d call this a “utensil reboot” and makes total sense. I’ve also do that with socks and those semi-disposable leftovers containers. At some point it just makes more sense to throw away/donate the mishmash assortment and start over clean.
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My leftover container situation used to be complete chaos. Now I refuse to even let the random containers or lids even enter the cabinet once they get washed.
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That's why me and my girl just dumped all our silverware and got a single set, it's been awesome
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I definitely have silverware I hate, but you know what I hate even more than my least favorite silverware? All but a single wooden spoon we have because they all have rectangular handles instead of being rounded. We have a SINGULAR round handled wooden spoon! Makes me irrationally angry, even if I don't ever show it.
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One of the wonderful things about wood is that you can reshape it pretty easily with a nice sharp knife or some sandpaper. Turn those rectangles into octogons by flattening the corners and then sand the whole thing smooth and all your wooden spoons are usable again
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Ain't no way my mom would approve of me messing with our wooden spoons like that, but it's a idea I'll keep in mind.
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one of my forks has an absurd amount of hard water mineral build-up on it and i have no idea why....
now it sits in the drawer unloved and unused for eternity.
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We actually have one fork with slightly bent tines that we lovingly refer to as the "autistic fork".
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auty forky
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My identical twin likes the thick heavy utensils. Or so they told me. So every time I served them I gave them the heaviest ones. Only to be told years later no! None of them were the right ones!
Of course none are the right ones, the best utensils are the light delicate ones so I don't feel them at all!
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I have a plastic fork I never use. I keep it around because it's a pretty damn fancy plastic fork and I'm just amazed at its existence. Too light, and too fragile to use, I just keep it in the cutlery drawer to inspire the others
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My wife brought it home and I hate it. I refuse to use it.
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She's probably tired of you screaming in pain every time you use your hands to cook spaghetti. Just use the damn claw already
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You mean the ones that have a dumb shaped handle and all the edges are sharp, as if it was just punched out of a piece if sheet metal and dumped directly into the fork bin in my utensil drawer?
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Why is it flatter than the rest? And why does that matter?!
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I have a fork that doesn't match the rest. It was bought about twenty years ago for me to use at work. I absolutely hated that job and unfortunately this poor fork now is now forever associated with it.
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Same! It doesn't share the same cubby as the rest of my forks - instead it sits in the 'miscellaneous' cubby that holds serving forks, the pie slicer, and the gravy ladle. It's the fork of last resort.
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I think I prefer moving the miscellaneous drawer into the open. I have this rotating susan type thing with a bunch of vertical slots that all of those things can be placed in.
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Glad to know Ive achieved at least some normal milestones.
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All cutlery in my drawer is uniform, but I know people who have a mish mash of different colors, sizes and whatnot so I understand in that case.
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All my cutlery is also the same, yet there is still one fork with a rust-spot that I really hate.
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It tastes weird. It belongs to my spouse, he has to use it like all the other cutlery that looks irregular compared to the majority. I only like the irregular spoon, it's nice!
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There is hope young traveler. At age 42, I replaced all the funky mismatched 'silverware' with 2 new sets of matchy-matchy black stainless. Life is good now and that wierd fork will never darken my drawer again.
I will not miss you funky forks and spoons, but you are forgiven.
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Yeah I have one thats been in the family for 60 years. Plain old chromed stainless so no value but sentimental. Fortunately its in a part of the drawer I don't access often
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How is everyone obsessed with cutlery. I just eat with whatever I get and am fine with it. My parents bought an expensive set of cutlery, because "it's paintful to use the cheap, sharp spoons/forks". How and why does this matter? I feel no difference.
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Look at the community you're posting in
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Yep, my point still stands.
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My wife's parents died 5 years ago, and she took a lot of stuff from the house. She even took the silverware and mixed it in with ours. I can't tell her, but I absolutely hate them and will avoid at all cost.
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I just use my hands for everything. So much easier, and if you don't wash up after, you have extra nutrients for the next meal!
So important in this economy.
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Yeah matching set for life. They don’t make it any more but I am still able to buy replacements from Replacements ltd.
My rule when picking this set was the spoons have to be strong enough to scoop ice cream without bending.
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I have one that somehow got bent and now doesn't stack nicely with all its clones. I don't feel like bending it back because of metal fatigue issues.
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I mean if it only got bent once and you bend it back metal fatigue won't really play that big of a role
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I even don't know how there's that fucking heavy and thicker fork between my forks
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true.
i also have a favorite fork that i'm always sad when i didn't clean it and it's not available -.-
yes i realize i only have myself to blame...