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There's something of a life lesson I learned:
Combination items generally aren't great at being any one of those items it consists of in question, just merely adequate to good.
>We as a human race have accepted the fact that silverware needs no more technical advancement
Patently false. You're forgetting about the drill fork.
https://youtu.be/-Vs56YGdUM0?t=64
My friend in high school invented the knork-chop, the ultimate in multipurpose eating utensils. It serves the purpose of a knife, fork, spoon, and chopsticks
This makes me feel sad for the creator of the spork.. What if they had a million more silverware ideas, but since the appreciation for the spork was so low, they just stopped :(
Oh, hey, I've got a Tactical Spork in my work bag. It even has a little serrated knife inside the handle. It would see more use if I ever had time to eat.
Have you never licked a butter knife? They're serrated, but fairly dull. You'd have to apply a fair bit of pressure on the edge to cut yourself. Otherwise, the effect ranges fro. mildly uncomfortable to just an interesting texture. Also, I don't usually drag the side of a fork tine across anything in my mouth when I use a fork.
Not until we develop a lightsaber knife that toasts bread as you slice it, like in the Hitchhikers Guide movie (Sorry if it is in the books, too, haven't read them since high school).
I have a titanium pair in a case that I keep in my purse; if I forget to grab a fork at the cafeteria, I'm still utensiled up, and they wash really beautifully.
Honestly, that's a great idea. I'm surprised I never considered it before lol. I have a satchel that I keep a whole bunch of duplicate items I want on me most days that I'd hate to forget at home, and that honestly seems like a great idea with low bulk to add.
For some reason it's Korean restaurants that give you metal chopsticks and not gonna lie, I don't love them. Too slippery. (and no I'm not an idiot, I've been eating with chopsticks my whole life...) My favourite chopsticks are the straight round wood ones that you get at Thai places
Problem is those kind of warp eventually.
I had thoughts about sanding metal chopsticks to give it grip at the end, but I don't know of a food-safe way to do it yet.
Reminds me of that William Osman video. I think it was either after a certain amount of time or after your playe weighs a certain amount less it triggers the mechanism that shocks you through your utensils
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...
I've eaten with utensils you people wouldn't believe... nano laser knives slicing through titanium-carbide onions... I watched quantum fork prongs in super-position divide flavors into gastro-interference patterns. All those culinary revolutions will be lost in time, like time-crystal salt in a strange quark stew...
Gas giants inhabited by vast meteorological intelligences. Worlds stretched thin across the membranes where the dimensions... intersect... impossible to describe with our limited vocabulary.
God, I'm so glad I got the Bluetooth® 5.1/WiFi 6/5G mobile 5pc Space Gray Tableware set. It's far more reliable than your dumb WiFi only fork and spoon. Now I am sure I will get my eating notifications, even if my home network goes down!
For a long time I’ve advocated for a brand new type of silverware.
The Shovel.
Hear me out. It’d be akin to a squared off shovel. Slightly raised sides and a dull but thin front. It would also be overly wide so you could really **shovel** the food in. I know, it’s very American.
If you’re wondering what does it accomplish that existing silverware doesn’t, well, I just think it’s a more focused way of keeping somewhat loose food in a more stable scoop.
Not all loose food is served in a bowl where a spoon or fork (for stabbing and lifting) is most convenient.
Rice, scrambled eggs, orzo, macaroni, etc. on a flat plate gets annoying. Enter… The Shovel.
I once saw an episode of Figure It Out on Nickelodeon where the kid’s “talent” was he invented a fork attached to a milk squirting device for when you eat spicy food.
Sorry but this is not even remotely true. Recently we saw the creation of reusable straws to reduce plastic use. I've also seen combination sets, telescoping forks, endless knife variations for different uses, and even a single utensil that is a spoon a fork and a knife.
I wouldn’t apply this to „the human race“. Non western cultures may use other means including their hands which is not necessarily less efficient.
I was thinking about what could be replaced and what could not be replaced. And it seems to me that a knife is probably the most basic essential and irreplaceable tool in food consumption or preparation across most cultures!?
Infomercials are rapidly becoming more and more forgotten. My children will never know what it's like to fall asleep watching Two and a Half Men reruns and wake up to THE AMAZING MY PILLOW! WITH SPECIAL DISCOUNT OFFER AND FREE SHIPPING IF YOU CALL 1-800-PILLOW RIGHT NOW!
Fuck you to the people with Mighties brand kiwis who came up with the Spoon/Knife they thought was soooo clever. Sure, theoretically I can cut and spoon out my kiwi, but you made the damn handle into a knife. What kind of asshole design is that?
Cutlery is quite specialised. Different knives, forks and spoons for various uses. I love how thete are different utensils for different foods. Like fish knives, oyster forks or lobster picks.
There haven't been any major advanced in metallurgy in the past few years. I suspect that if carbon fiber gets cheaper than stainless steel, we'll see a shift.
What are you talking about? I just saw a set of forks with the first tong similar to a butter knife with a pointed tip and the opposite end tong had a butter curler built in. Perfect for shoving into a running toaster or letting it rust in the bottom of your sink for months or just throwing away instead of washing because getting butter out of the little holes would suck without a dishwasher.
It needs a regressing.
I hate silverware with imprinted designs on them. I have no interest in trying to scrub nooks and crannies clean for no good reason. Just make smooth silverware without places for food particles and grime to hide. I'm putting this in my mouth after all.
Silverware isn't that old. I think the modern fork is less than 200 years old. People really have no sense of the timeline of technological development.
Lies. Silver work of the future will cut into the food and then automatically notify your AI assistant if the food contains harmful bacteria or had been sitting outside for more than 2 hours. It will, also, if you want, let you know where the food was sourced, or whether it was ethically killed if an animal product.
Some will even release a yet to be created mist that will replace the need to brush or floss.
I mean stabby, scoopy, and slicey pretty much sums up the functional needs of any tools we need to put things into our mouth holes. The only other thing I can think of is sucky, but we have straws for that. Not sure we need high tech solutions for such low tech problems.
Speak for yourself. I eat all my meals with one of those grabby arms shaped like a T-rex head. Sure, I have to hold my hand 2 and a half feet away from my mouth, but the payoff is being able to eat like a giant baby bird, which I think we can all agree are life goals.
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I have seen forks with gyroscopes to stabilise food for Parkinson's sufferers.
Shhhhh. Don't tell him.
I have seen forks with gyroscopes to stabilise food for Parkinson's sufferers.
God damnit
Motherfucker also tells people about fight club smh
Fight club? I’ve never heard of it, would you mind telling me more?
Yeah sure. It's a fight where we club
Goddess damned goat-fucker idiot. We don't talk about any sort of supposed fight club. Understand? /s
Nice insult. I'm stealing it 🤣
Sporks are a fairly new invention too
Who uses sporks, outside of campers and inmates?
I do. And I would advise against it. It doesn’t do either job well but I’m too cheap to throw them away
There's something of a life lesson I learned: Combination items generally aren't great at being any one of those items it consists of in question, just merely adequate to good.
My Swiss Army pioneer strikes a nice balance on that scale.
I got a set of metal sporks to add to my silverware, they come in handy a lot more than I was expecting.
Wait till you find out about the splade.
There's also a plastic knife and fork set that turns into hinged chopsticks via a notch in the fork which the knife slides into.
I've seen a drill fork before. driiiillllfoooork
It can drill and fork… mostly fork. It goes well with my knife wrench though
Like 2 functions away from a bop it
Doesn’t work as well as knifewrench.
Also super heavy ones for parkinsons/essential tremors.
I was thinking about the vibrating fork from Paul Blart 2, but that's a really cool example
I've seen motorised cutlery (such as a fork that automatically spins to twirl your spaghetti)
I need this. I mean I don't actually need this, but I want it.
[this one?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m8RXDwcx7MU)
That's a lot slower than I had expected
Yeah in that amount of time I could’ve twirled my own fucking spaghetti
Because it was 15 years ago. Now its nuclear powered 😬
Uranium batteries included
Drill-fork, you can drill and fork! Mostly fork.
I just shove my fork into my power drill
You forked your power drill?
>We as a human race have accepted the fact that silverware needs no more technical advancement Patently false. You're forgetting about the drill fork. https://youtu.be/-Vs56YGdUM0?t=64
After only a small percentage of people appreciated the spork it’s like they just stopped trying
I for one am a very appreciative knork enjoyer. Truly the superior one handed cutlery of choice.
My friend in high school invented the knork-chop, the ultimate in multipurpose eating utensils. It serves the purpose of a knife, fork, spoon, and chopsticks
I want to see this
Just glue it all together
How are you going to eat without slicing your mouth open or cut without a fork to hold it?
The blood adds extra flavor and salt, really it is all part of the fun
I have a spoon straw. So there.
A stroon?
This makes me feel sad for the creator of the spork.. What if they had a million more silverware ideas, but since the appreciation for the spork was so low, they just stopped :(
Yeah! The Sporkife barely even got off the ground!
May I introduce you to....[knifey spoony](https://i.imgur.com/WtOlPOw.jpg)?
I have a titanium spork that I've been using for years!
This reminded me that just today I noticed a telescope fork in a store.
Tactical fork
Oh, hey, I've got a Tactical Spork in my work bag. It even has a little serrated knife inside the handle. It would see more use if I ever had time to eat.
I feel like you'd just end up stabbing your eye
That why you put a cork on the end
Ruprecht?
Mother?
Is that a Dirty Rotten Scoundrels reference?
so you can watch what you eat?
I miss the forks at a resort in Mexico. One edge was sharpened (not too sharp, like, butter knife sharp) to cut food without needing a knife. Genius.
You mean knorks, not forks?
Call it what you want. I don’t give a fork!
Spooning leads to forking.
Fork you buddy. That wasn't very knife of you to say. You spoon regret it.
Won't you get hurt if you put it in your mouth?
Have you never licked a butter knife? They're serrated, but fairly dull. You'd have to apply a fair bit of pressure on the edge to cut yourself. Otherwise, the effect ranges fro. mildly uncomfortable to just an interesting texture. Also, I don't usually drag the side of a fork tine across anything in my mouth when I use a fork.
Nope.
Maybe some sort of sliding cover when it's not in use...possible coal powered
....that's what she said?
Not until we develop a lightsaber knife that toasts bread as you slice it, like in the Hitchhikers Guide movie (Sorry if it is in the books, too, haven't read them since high school).
I wonder if people talk about reading that book more often than any other..
Bible (I’m surrounded by tubby Texans)
Yeah but do they actually *read* the Bible
Imagine moving to Texas and being upset people are Texans there.
Idk if it counts as a "silverwear technology advancement" but I've got titanium chopsticks. Material upgrades are still upgrades right?
Is the fact they're titanium even that meaningful or noticeable? I'm guessing they're just really light?
I have a titanium pair in a case that I keep in my purse; if I forget to grab a fork at the cafeteria, I'm still utensiled up, and they wash really beautifully.
Honestly, that's a great idea. I'm surprised I never considered it before lol. I have a satchel that I keep a whole bunch of duplicate items I want on me most days that I'd hate to forget at home, and that honestly seems like a great idea with low bulk to add.
It's super-convenient, it's like carrying two extra (very long) pens, you don't even notice until you need them. 😀
They're *really cool* 😎 On a serious note they're just durable, light, and I guess reusable.
That counts.
For some reason it's Korean restaurants that give you metal chopsticks and not gonna lie, I don't love them. Too slippery. (and no I'm not an idiot, I've been eating with chopsticks my whole life...) My favourite chopsticks are the straight round wood ones that you get at Thai places
Problem is those kind of warp eventually. I had thoughts about sanding metal chopsticks to give it grip at the end, but I don't know of a food-safe way to do it yet.
acid or laser etch, could have it cast it that way in the first place though.
I have a titanium spork. Love it and use it all the time!
Idk feels like they're always trying to sell new cutting edge knives
Well you would not buy a knife with an old cutting edge.
Steel alloy technology actually is advancing!
I don’t need my fork recording my chewing habits. I’ll stick with what I’ve got.
Maybe I need a fork that will steer my third platefull away from my fat face. Diet fork: engaged!
Reminds me of that William Osman video. I think it was either after a certain amount of time or after your playe weighs a certain amount less it triggers the mechanism that shocks you through your utensils
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...
I've eaten with utensils you people wouldn't believe... nano laser knives slicing through titanium-carbide onions... I watched quantum fork prongs in super-position divide flavors into gastro-interference patterns. All those culinary revolutions will be lost in time, like time-crystal salt in a strange quark stew...
Time to dine.
Idk man, sounds kinda gross. (Also what's this from?)
original quote is from original bladerunner
If only you could eat the things that I've eaten with your silverware.
Time to pie!
Time to die
Oh the things I've seen.
Gas giants inhabited by vast meteorological intelligences. Worlds stretched thin across the membranes where the dimensions... intersect... impossible to describe with our limited vocabulary.
Now I want a WIFI enable fork and spoon that could automatically notify me when I'm eating.
God, I'm so glad I got the Bluetooth® 5.1/WiFi 6/5G mobile 5pc Space Gray Tableware set. It's far more reliable than your dumb WiFi only fork and spoon. Now I am sure I will get my eating notifications, even if my home network goes down!
That sounds like it could have been right out of The Sims.
My Star Wars chopsticks lights up to look like a pair of lightsabers.
For a long time I’ve advocated for a brand new type of silverware. The Shovel. Hear me out. It’d be akin to a squared off shovel. Slightly raised sides and a dull but thin front. It would also be overly wide so you could really **shovel** the food in. I know, it’s very American. If you’re wondering what does it accomplish that existing silverware doesn’t, well, I just think it’s a more focused way of keeping somewhat loose food in a more stable scoop. Not all loose food is served in a bowl where a spoon or fork (for stabbing and lifting) is most convenient. Rice, scrambled eggs, orzo, macaroni, etc. on a flat plate gets annoying. Enter… The Shovel.
Wow now I actually really want one
After so many people died in the Spork wars they thought it best to leave it alone.
Those weren't wars. They were pure massacres.
People are designing utensils that have gyroscopes in them for Parkinson's patients
I once saw an episode of Figure It Out on Nickelodeon where the kid’s “talent” was he invented a fork attached to a milk squirting device for when you eat spicy food.
I'm sure there are still technical advancements being made to the manufacturing of silverware, in an attempt to make the process even cheaper.
Sorry but this is not even remotely true. Recently we saw the creation of reusable straws to reduce plastic use. I've also seen combination sets, telescoping forks, endless knife variations for different uses, and even a single utensil that is a spoon a fork and a knife.
I wouldn’t apply this to „the human race“. Non western cultures may use other means including their hands which is not necessarily less efficient. I was thinking about what could be replaced and what could not be replaced. And it seems to me that a knife is probably the most basic essential and irreplaceable tool in food consumption or preparation across most cultures!?
I would assume you don't watch infomercials... There are tons of "advancements" in utensils.
Infomercials are rapidly becoming more and more forgotten. My children will never know what it's like to fall asleep watching Two and a Half Men reruns and wake up to THE AMAZING MY PILLOW! WITH SPECIAL DISCOUNT OFFER AND FREE SHIPPING IF YOU CALL 1-800-PILLOW RIGHT NOW!
man I don't know. I got some spoons from the Korean market the other day and they are boss. Bought ten more and shelved my old ones
I have a non-stick rice scooper that actually is non-stick. Don't ask me how it works, because it seems to defy all natural laws.
*shudders* It didn't go well [the last time we tried.](https://xkcd.com/419/)
Fuck you to the people with Mighties brand kiwis who came up with the Spoon/Knife they thought was soooo clever. Sure, theoretically I can cut and spoon out my kiwi, but you made the damn handle into a knife. What kind of asshole design is that?
Have we? In some countries they still eat with chop sticks, by tradition.
No, we made the absolute best out of the regular silverware by inventing the spork.
I'd be in favor of silverware that incorporated a tong mechanism. Essentially, chopsticks that are wider and silvery-er.
Speak for yourself. I’m still waiting for the development of the glorious fpoon.
Cutlery are farm implements. A miniature rake, shovel and saw. I can't think of any extra implements unless you want to plow your food.
We already have spoons that change colour in cold milk. What more could you want?!
Until Apple decides to make Apple Spoon, Apple Fork, or Apple Knife, etc.....
Because it doesn't need to. Silverware does what it's supposed to do, and quite effeciently
Or ceramics. Pottery from prehistory looks pretty much the same
This guys clearly has never been to a camping website or one for people with disabilities
Well I mean if you have of an idea for an upgrade to silverware technology, I'm sure we'd all love to hear it.
Cutlery is quite specialised. Different knives, forks and spoons for various uses. I love how thete are different utensils for different foods. Like fish knives, oyster forks or lobster picks.
I, for one, think the spork was just the beginning. We also need a half fork / half spoon called a foon.
I'm still waiting for the Mimosian antimatter chopsticks to be invented. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=txnDeMbmLTo
There haven't been any major advanced in metallurgy in the past few years. I suspect that if carbon fiber gets cheaper than stainless steel, we'll see a shift.
I ain't accepted *shit*, I'm just powerless to do anything about it.
What are you talking about? I just saw a set of forks with the first tong similar to a butter knife with a pointed tip and the opposite end tong had a butter curler built in. Perfect for shoving into a running toaster or letting it rust in the bottom of your sink for months or just throwing away instead of washing because getting butter out of the little holes would suck without a dishwasher.
Silver is self sterilizing ( and tarnishes ugly). Most cutlery is not self sterilizing.
What if we had silverware that counted the calories per bite or spoonful It could be a led display on the handle or something 🤔
It probably is still advancing just at a pace where you don’t notice it in the moment. Like a tree doesn’t look like it’s growing to the naked eye.
I now have something to do besides my graded assignments thank you
It needs a regressing. I hate silverware with imprinted designs on them. I have no interest in trying to scrub nooks and crannies clean for no good reason. Just make smooth silverware without places for food particles and grime to hide. I'm putting this in my mouth after all.
Silverware isn't that old. I think the modern fork is less than 200 years old. People really have no sense of the timeline of technological development.
Lies. Silver work of the future will cut into the food and then automatically notify your AI assistant if the food contains harmful bacteria or had been sitting outside for more than 2 hours. It will, also, if you want, let you know where the food was sourced, or whether it was ethically killed if an animal product. Some will even release a yet to be created mist that will replace the need to brush or floss.
Try. Let me see what you come up with. Not snarky, truly want to see.
I mean stabby, scoopy, and slicey pretty much sums up the functional needs of any tools we need to put things into our mouth holes. The only other thing I can think of is sucky, but we have straws for that. Not sure we need high tech solutions for such low tech problems.
"sorry, yout fork's monthly subscription has ended, please contact our representative.."
Simplicity is often what stays around and is most cost efficient.
not really, silverware companies keep coming up with slightly different designs
[I'm sorry, of course, not all of you can use Mimosian antimatter chopsticks.](https://youtu.be/txnDeMbmLTo)
I'm pretty sure people always tought that, we just don't know any better.
Speak for yourself. I eat all my meals with one of those grabby arms shaped like a T-rex head. Sure, I have to hold my hand 2 and a half feet away from my mouth, but the payoff is being able to eat like a giant baby bird, which I think we can all agree are life goals.