Sporks: why the attraction?

I had Sporks as a kid with school lunch and then later at Taco Bell. To me, wanting a Titanium spork is pretty much a cool gimmik factor. They are very useful for camp as they tend to cover two jobs in a lightweight package. I imagine either the Ti Spork or Ti Chopsticks that are designed for camping would make a rather inocuous yet useful self defense tool in a pinch.
Doc
 
The ti spork is pretty lightweight and there's no place for a good grip and the tines are short and fairly blunt. My ti chopsticks though are a pair of titanium rods that could do some improvised damage.
 
I was born with oposable thumbs. I don't need such silly things as utinsels. Or spelling skills.
 
I love the look on people's faces when I pull out my spork (Ti naturally) in Chinese restaurants.

I can't use chopsticks to save my life.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
The ti spork is light, compact, slips in your gear anywhere, washes off quickly and throughly.
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You know, that never occured to me... I've certainly gotten "stain-y" food on my stainless steel utensils -- is Ti easier to wash?
 
I love 'em 'cause I'm just not that good with a fork. I eat EVERYTHING with a sppon and/or chopsticks. They're also really great for those times when you gfet stuff to go, but they/you forgot utensils.

Lastly, saves on waste in regrads to disposable utensil if/when you eat out a lot. I ususally do not have time to cook at home, and spend too much time eating out, but it's saved my bacon on a number of occasions.

That, and Maximus Otter hit it on the head.

Mike :D
 
MG_Saldivar said:
-- is Ti easier to wash?
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It's at least as easy to wash as any other metal. I feel that a blast of cold water washes it off almost completely actually, and the same holds true for my Mission MPU, a small Ti neck knife.

Since the tines are short and rounded, but thin enough to pierce most food without endangering your mouth, they are also easy to clean between. In the field, wiping the spork down with a cloth or tissue would do pretty well.
 
Stolen from Malpiede...

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SPORK, the one eating utensil that gives you almost everything you need to eat a meal. If your meat is tender, you have everything you need.

Why do you want to put one in the glovebox of the car or in your backpack? How many times have you gotten a drive through meal without any eating utensils? Or even worse, those damn tiny soft bendable forks and spoons that come with most Asian take out meals?

In a backpack situation, you have a LOT less weight then regular silverware, and they don't break like the various plastics utensils do when your backpack at school filled with books falls over. Ever try eating soup with a fork? A spoon by itself is sufficient for me but, noodles and such aren't compatible with a spoon.
 
Sid Post said:
SPORK, the one eating utensil that gives you almost everything you need to eat a meal. If your meat is tender, you have everything you need.
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Spoon, the one eating utensil I have needed to eat my camping and backpacking meals for fifty-two years. But what do I know? I might have my current, Lexan, spoon break "at school" (:D :D :D ) --- when my pack falls over. It has only lasted twenty-one years.
 
After buying your Ti spork, you need to send it off to one of the custom sheath makers to be fitted for a Concealex horizontal belt sheath. Maybe drill some holes in the handle, cord-wrap it, and tiger-stripe the........whatever the business end of a spork is called.

Seriously, they are very useful, as others have attested to.

:D
 
I carry one in my Fire Dept out of county bag. We usually eat MRE's when on a strike team. I hate plastic utensils. Ti is light, doesn't rust if uncared for and doesn't taste like metal.

Just recieved a TAD gear (awesome company) folding spork to replace my regular one. It is very well made, has a pocket clip, and a smaller packed length when folded.

I am a geardo, but my buddies are always envious when I pull out a tool they wish they had but don't. They usually end up buying the same stuff for the next trip.


John...
 
They're kinda the transsexuals of dining utensils... instead of chix with dicks, it's spoons with tines...

does that make sense?
 
maximus otter said:
1. Titanium

2. Gadget

Remember where you're posting! ;)

maximus otter
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I have one, makes a nice gift for the person that has everything also. If you really want to save weight backpacking carry a shortened plastic spoon and use your fingers or whatever blade you carried for everything else.

In camp its handy for coffee, stirring, eating, etc... In my daily "purse" its handy for ice cream emergencies or similar. I keep a bunch of cord wrapped around it in my bag.

In truth, its a gadget. Comes in handy but easily replaced by fingers.
 
Count me among spork deniers. What's the point in a spork? I can't stab my food with my knife as well as with a spork? Does it cut my food better than my knife? Does it scoop it better than my spoon?

And if I really, really need something that grabs food, I can fashion simple chopsticks with my knife if for some reason I just can't use my fingers. Chopsticks will outgrab any spork by a mile. If anything, I would much rather carry a few sets of bamboo chopsticks.
 
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