[Closed] Favourite spoon, fork cutlery etc etc - am I quite mad, or normal-ish?

You'd put a box of frogs to shame! Cutlery either works or it doesn't, I can't see how you can have a favourite.

I think you need to get a handle on it before it's too late.

Oh contraire , @tout la monde!

I have a favourite butter knife that I pinched from my mum's house when I left 24 years ago. I am quite particular about cutlery. But I have spent a whole career in the Catering business.

I'm pretty sure it's just you, or just you thats been released back into the community.

You clearly have some form of emotional attachment to cutlery, that's not right.

Totally on board with this.

This is Florence. Her ergonomic handle and dainty pointy bits make her my go-to receptacle for consumption of my daily lunch. My 'usual' cutlery (viners, natch) isn't a patch on her turkey piercing capabilities.

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Ooh, I am quite fussy about this sort of thing! Spoon too big will ruin my pudding. Tea spoon to deep = rubbish yogurt experience.
I could NEVER use that abomination of a fork up there (gfs's one)! Needs to be flat and smooth with 4 prongs! (like bear's... phwoar! that's a beauty)

I am quite weird in that I have no photos of my cutlery though.

My 5 year old daughter has to have her special spoon for breakfast or she gets quite cross.

She is 5 years old.

prongs

There are certain knife's and forks that I prefer to use. No emotional attachment though.

You'd put a box of frogs to shame! Cutlery either works or it doesn't

Only if your not bothered about how your food tastes 😉

fork up there (gfs's one)

Cutlery either works or it doesn't

She is 5 years old.

I get the OP's fork but not the 1970's British Rail spoon.

1970's British Rail spoon

Is it really?! That's amazing! My oldschool leftwing status deepens beyond even my ken!

I have a favourite spork, so I can understand you on this. I also have a favourite mug at my mum's house that I insist on using every time I go there. She keeps trying to get me to use something else for tea, or to take it home with me, but I've had that mug since before Uni (mid-90s I guess) and I just like using it.

It's not even a flashy mug either. It just holds the right amount of tea.

My favourite knife, until I discovered the Fabric Scoop flat

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Not all our cutlery matches but I will admit, there is a particular style in there that I favour.

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This is actually the Perfect Teaspoon. It's just kind of a shame it's for feeding babies with, you feel a bit selfconscious using one as a 35 year old.

I have a favourite mug. It's just a bit bigger than normal, and used to belong to my grandfather before he died.

a fork or a threek?

Is a triple-tined fork not a trident?

I wouldn't say I have a favourite fork/spoon/knife, but there are definitely ones that I dislike. Like the stupid curvy Ikea ones they have at my girlfriend's house, or the plastic handled ones we have for camping.

I wouldn't say I have a favourite fork/spoon/knife, but there are definitely ones that I dislike.

Me too: some horrible square (x-section) plastic handled cutlery that my wife bought for special occasions, horrible things. Nasty to hold.

Also got some steak knives a bit like this, too thin for my liking:

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have a favourite egg cup
it has a picture of a hare sitting on the back of a tortoise dangling a carrot in front of the tortoises nose
it's at least 40 years old

cutlery is all the same. comes in a 24 pack.

Oh yes, I have favourite cutlery. For a start the knife and fork (and spoon if in use) all have to match, my wife just uses any that comes to hand, I don't like that at all.

The cutlery need a good weight and to be a good size, fork needs long tines, knife needs good serration and a thick handle, for a spoon, size is the key, that spoon the OP posted looks spot on.

Yes, I am a sad, sad man.

Gentlemen, you talk of Viners as if it's something special.

Anyone who really appreciates cutlery would have [url= https://www.arthurprice.com/cutlery-2/ ]Arthur Price[/url] way above Viners on their preferred list of tabletop tooling.

Anyhow. What knife for cutting up today's office cake offering?

YES! 😀

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I have a favourite Vargo Ti spork i tend to use for pretty much everything, i have other sporks but the size of the tines on this particular one are just perfect, i use it for scrambled eggs in the morning and more often than not i use it for all other meals as well (dependant on what i've cooked).

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My new favourite mug is the Aplkit Kelvin, just feels very nice in the hand and to drink from, with the lid fitted it keeps my tea warm for ages

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I also have a favourite plate and pasta/stir fry bowl……..i guess it's no surprise that i am single 😀

We were given a Robert Welsh Iona set from Granny, not bad.

I have a preferred teaspoon for my boiled eggs. Spoon must be small and sharp enough to go in through the opening and dislodge the egg white inside once Ive finished the dunking bit.

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appropriate name given the subject!

Anyhow. What knife for cutting up today's office cake offering?

Damn you bearnecessities, you and your delicious looking cake 👿

And he only had to complete a few simple physics puzzles to get it!

i have a favourite set of chopsticks... snowpeak titanium and birch ones that take down.... [url= http://www.tauntonleisure.com/snow-peak-carry-on-chopsticks/p10934 ]these ones...[/url]

I have a favourite spoon that I use all the time.
It is a Robert Welch that I borrowed from first class in the Eurostar.
Perfect shape and weight.

I have a favourite Vargo Ti spork

That's not a spork, it's a foon.

We somehow acquired a Knife similar to that horrible steak knife ^^^^.

It then proceeded to get itself co mingled with our day to day knives.

Last week I picked it up once to often, It now resides in the plant pot underneath the kitchen window.

My yoghurt spoon disappeared from the drawer a few months back. 😥 It was from the MCC, stamped on the handle. No one will admit to loosing it.

That's not a spork, it's a foon.

Pfttt, if you can stab yourself in the back of the hand it's a spork in my book, and Vargo describe it as a spork so that's good enough for me 😀

I dont have a favourite fork/knife/spoon per say but I have various "models" (types, I dunno) of them and I have a favourite model. Until quite recently there was only one "model" I could use at my parents, I just couldn't use the others.

I totally agree with gofasterstripes.

I absolutely have a favourite yoghurt spoon that I've had for 16 years (but is currently missing....) fabulous flat handle and spoon bit.

If anyone knows of a uk seller of nest cutlery I'd be grateful.

I too have a preferred yoghurting spoon that I keep in my drawer at work, I won't say I *must* use it, but it's certainly a preference and if it goes missing I will pursue it around the office until I find it again.

which is how this came to appear on my desk one day after a particularly fretful few days of badgering my co-workers to find out where it had gone.

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I'd never though of this before but I too have this affliction

perfect size and heavy dining plate my dad 'acquired' from a local pub when it was being refurbished 40 years ago - the only thing I took from the family house - perfect for cheese sandwiches above all other things

original style alpkit Ti Spork - for stirring tea and yoghurt eating there is nothing better

Also have a morrisons metal bowl for making salad dressings

Complete weirdo now I come to think about it

Yes, I do have preferred cutlery. Trouble is, I haven't found the ideal knife, fork, spoon set.

I do like some of the modern Arthur Price items.

this all sounds perfectly normal to me.

but my wife thinks i'm a weirdo.

btw, if anyone knows where i can buy a set of 'ikea 365' cutlery, i'd be very grateful...

Mrs ADH's parents bought us a really nice set some time ago.

They have really heavy, though not overly large, artfully sculpted rounded-off square section metal handles.

The handles are so heavy they tend to give my puny fingers cramp, and the tendency to eject themselves from bowls or plates.

So I tend to continue using the single fork I have remaining from the pound-shop set I bought as a student 15 years ago ... if I bother with a knife, I use one of the serrated kitchen knives that were bought for me by a uni housemate who was frustrated by me always stealing his.

A genuine first world problem!

Alveston by Robert Welch still as stunning as when it was designed in 1962 8)

I'm having a comedown.

Hair of the dog!

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"Red and yella and grin and blooo"

*hic*

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Yes, yes, and thrice yes. I have a knife (well a few of them really) that were my grandparents and which I coveted from a very young age. When the family of vultures were grabbing what they could when my Gran passed away, all I took was the knives. That was all I wanted. I use them every day and won't use any of the others in the house. At least 70 years old, and still good. Sheffield steel see 🙂

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Hah, that's exactly the same as ours. We inherited a second set from my grandma that have cheesy mother of pearl handles so they're in the cupboard for spares. Spreading bread with anything else is just wrong

We have three of those. Handles a bit pitted from machine washing.

Yes, preferred butter and jam spreading knife - just the right amount of give in the hand.

I've a couple too, and yes, unbeatable butter knives.

Also the weapon of choice for separating stubborn lego bricks

Errrm, we have two cutlery drawers, His and Hers 😳
He doesn't like mine, reckons it's too heavy; I don't like his, too light and too thin to hold comfortably.

Guilty as charged, two full shelves and one mug tree, but the coffee doesn't taste right unless it comes from my special mug. Mrs F can't understand why I will keep recycling only one mug rather than get another out of the cupboard

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I stole this one, the sin/saved loop has caught me out.

You'd put a box of frogs to shame! Cutlery either works or it doesn't, I can't see how you can have a favourite.

Robert Welch "Palm" here.

I have a favourite knife, not unlike welshfarmer's, been in the family longer than I have, possibly eighty-odd years old, and as Cougar says, just perfect for spreading butter on crusty bread.
I've also got a favourite spoon, 'acquired' from work, after the one I took with me when I started there went missing.
This one is really heavy, and very smooth and tactile. I've never seen another like it, with the wavy contoured stem:
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There's some fantastic responses on this 😀 I am especially jealous of the Jesus-spoon; you'd better be careful not to use it to eat shellfish though - I don't think god likes that*.

It's good to know I'm not alone, next meeting same time next week?

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*or was it gay shellfish? I forget.

Jeez, where do I start.
1. Sunday best is Arthur Price
2. Spoon. I have one spoon left over from a previous set. It's the right shape for eating my porridge. If it's not in the drawer I have to find it and wash it, the replacements are the wrong shape completely. The comforting feel of its beaded-edged handle soothes my morning mood immeasurably.
3. Knives and forks. This is the cause of endless discussion chez scape. It is wrong to eat any food with a knife and fork which are not both proper dinner-sized; the smaller forks are for puddings, and the smaller knives are for sideplates. A combination of different sizes [i]will[/i] spoil my meal, no matter how mad you make me out to be. I didn't reach this age and status by eating with incorrectly sized cutlery. On the subject of forks, I have "appropriated" a selection of cheap canteen style forks for you kids to take to college to eat your lunches with. If you take the large matching dinner forks with you and then leave them festering in your college bag, don't expect to start eating your evening meal until they have all been accounted for, and are present and correct, on the table, with a corresponding dinner knife. And yes, it does matter dear. You chose to buy a cutlery set with only four knives and forks, and I will not allow us to descend to a situation where we have a ragbag of mis-matched cutlery on the table.
4. Spreading butter. The narrow tipped dinner knives we have now got in the drawer are great for cutting and eating meat. They are not the right shape for spreading butter. The one remaining beaded edged one from the same set as my porridge spoon does the job nicely.The other one, the one with the square-edged handle, would have been great, but the tip is the wrong shape after you used it as a screwdriver. It was crap for eating with though, as the end of the handle dug into my palm.
5. I like my red mug, because it holds an adult portion of tea and coffee. Those stupid white porcelain mugs are not the right size or shape for drinking out of, although the are great for measuring porridge oats and water in the morning. My red mug does NOT need putting in the dishwasher every time you find it on a table, work surface, or next to my armchair. I will use it through the day, rinsing it if I have to, but it gets washed every morning and then can be re-used as and when required.

we have bits of several cutlery sets, I prefer the knife from my wife's set (wide blade, smooth edges good for spreading) but the spoons are too thick, can't get a good scraping action around the edge of dishes, prefer spoons from one of the other two sets, not much in it. Forks I'm not too fussy about except the black handled set, only 3 tines and spaced too far apart, madness. Teaspoons, with kids we got through/lost loads so bought several packs, cheap teaspoons are short changing you, they're shallower, you need to up your sugar count in brews.

I most definitely have a favourite mug, about one and a half time oversize, handle was broken off ages ago but I put up with it. Perfect size and shape, easy to get the tea/milk proportions spot on and filled to the brim. Family have bought me several replacements for it but none have made the grade.

Scapegoat understands. I agree re. correct and matching knife, fork, spoon.

Oh and I have a lovely little Sabatier paring knife which a "friend" of mine discovered wasn't ideally suited to opening a tin. I was NOT impressed.