Sounds like a simple question right? A very easy answer it's a well fork
But alas if it were so easy
But first.. why ask such a profound question?
Earlier today I was eat some potstickers and watching some markipler when I had a astounding realization, How does a fork work?
So I asked youtube.... nothing, I asked Google and now we have today's post.
So now that you understand the story let's begin
first how does a fork work?
An excellent question, my first hypothesis was it had somthing to do with surface tension, but not luck on that end. Now ofc seeing as my sources are Wikipedia and one steam review I'm not sure the accuracy of what I'm saying, as this is fun little brief overview of the fork ands it's impacts of the world and the other utensils used instead of, don't take this too seriously and feel free to correct me on anything I get seriously wrong.
Anyways.
So a fork works using its stines (those are the little prongs at the end) the stines are used to spear the food thus giving you a convenient way to consume.
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Now there are many types of forks used for many different jobs, for example there's a Ice cream Fork... I'm assuming used for ice cream, crab fork, pastry fork, dessert fork (why?), and carving fork as well as your table fork.
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What is a fork exactly?
Well it's a long shaft with multiple stines at the end for penetrating the pastry (Alternatively you can call your uncle I'm sure he'd do it for you)
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When was the first fork?
Dating as far back as the bronze age bone forks were used 2400 BC they were used in some Chinese dynasty too...
Now I'd end the discussion here... you know what a fork is where it originated and how to use it... but see what about chopsticks?
chopsticks??
Despite being one of the only people in my family who still can't figure out how the hell you use a chopstick, I still find them cool. I (to any chopstick using cultures nightmare) use them as drink stirs (ik war criminal)
Obviously this isn't how you use chopsticks and I'm no where near qualified to tell you how let's see who does
why/where chopsticks instead of forks
Despite chopsticks being the go to for most Asian cultures it seams the fork empire grows with western cuisine, as countries such as China and Japan use them for eating western cuisine or western style cuisine. With places like the Philippines using forks as there primary instead. Now Despite its popularity forks aren't used pretty much anywhere else in Asian cultures. With many Asian countries still using chopsticks instead of forks, and even some Asian countries opting to just do away with utensils and eat with there hands.
Although chopsticks are also a traditional way of eating and should be preserved. Not that I think it's really going anywhere.
conclusion
Idk how to use chopsticks and should be on a restraining order for chopsticks.
And uh this was fun.
So comment below, are you a chopsticks person or fork person? If you do neither you can also let me know (or not do what you want)
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By the 11th century, the table fork had become increasingly prevalent in the Italian peninsula because of historical ties with the Eastern Roman Empire and, as pasta became a greater part of the Italian diet, continued to gain popularity, displacing the long wooden spike formerly used since the fork's three spikes proved better suited to gathering the noodles. By the 14th century the table fork had become commonplace in Italy, and by 1600 was almost universal among the merchant and upper classes. It was proper for a guest to arrive with his own fork and spoon enclosed in a box called a cadena; this usage was introduced to the French court with Catherine de' Medici's entourage. Although in Portugal forks were first used around 1450 by Infanta Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu, King Manuel I of Portugal's mother, only by the 16th century, when they had become part of Italian etiquette, did forks enter into common use in southwestern Europe, gaining some currency in Spain, and gradually spreading to France. The rest of Europe did not adopt the fork until the 18th century.
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The fork's adoption in northern Europe was slower. Its use was first described in English by Thomas Coryat in a volume of writings on his Italian travels (1611), but for many years it was viewed as an unmanly Italian affectation. Some writers of the Roman Catholic Church expressly disapproved of its use; St. Peter Damian seeing it as "excessive delicacy". It was not until the 18th century that the fork became commonly used in Great Britain, although some sources say that forks were common in France, England and Sweden already by the early 17th century.
The fork did not become popular in North America until near the time of the American Revolution. The four-tine design became current in the early 19th century.
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@SupremeDorian Biggest Fork for world biggest noodles :sobbing:
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Super helpful, thank you
Good question. What is a fork?
what the fork is this
@SupremeDorian yoooo!!! That's soo hype!!!
My question is what kind of fork has five prongs? 😭 I’ve only seen four
maybe seeing it in SP2 will help you figure it out
@HuskyDynamics01 also there are some forks which aren't designed to eat off of. The only requirement is moving food.
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This fact however doesn't matter to you, and your just gunna blame big fork... (you will)
@HuskyDynamics01 wdym you don't use a hand tiller to eat your food?
@Rob119 Only if you use it as a typical means of moving food from your plate to your mouth.
@HuskyDynamics01 yep it's a fork. The hand tiller passes the fork test.
@Rob119 By that definition, a hand tiller would be a fork. No.
@HuskyDynamics01 well a fork is a long shaft with stines at the end that flare out. That's essentially a broom
@Rob119 No, a broom would not be a fork.
@Rob119 I mean, if two toothpicks are used to hold food between them without puncturing the food, they're chopsticks, and if a pair of chopsticks is used to hold the food by puncturing the food they make a fork.
@ThomasRoderick homie is either using the world's largest pair of toothpicks or eats the world's smallest food to use them as such. Using em as Forks I can kinda get but chopsticks?? Guess it's better than using two knives as chopsticks
@Rob119
Given I have the tendency to use a pair of toothpicks (of all things) as both makeshift forks and makeshift chopsticks, who am I to judge...
Yup, I'm pretty sure we're gonna get burned on the same pyre... made of chopsticks.
very informative although "Well it's a long shaft with multiple stines at the end for penetrating the pastry (Alternatively you can call your uncle I'm sure he'd do it for you)
really takes the cake on that one for me. also i agree to the cultural nightmare of using chopsticks as drink stirs. seriously someone teach me how i use a chopstick