sporks

[piranha]

i really like the concept, but i've never seen one in non-plastic, and i hate plastic dinnerware. well, "hate" -- not with the passion of a thousand suns going nova, you know. just -- ew. not in my mouth.

*googles*. oh wow, there is actually a titanium spork!

and this picture is worth 200 words or so. this one leaves me speechless.

proto spork for those who just like to shovel it in.

(instigated by ailbhe.)

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[xiphias.livejournal.com]

If there's an REI near you, they've usually got the titanium spork in stock.

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[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

figures they would. the MEC (which i linked to) is our equivalent to REI.

[dr-brat.livejournal.com]

My friend gothtique makes sporks from old sterling and stainless tableware and sells them here: http://www.picklepot.com/?page_id=54

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[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

hey, cool idea to recycle old tableware!

i am not sure they're very functional as the fork part goes; the tines don't look stabby enough. eg. they look good for serving salad, but not for eating it.

hmm. i have some old tableware i hate, and a dremel. this might just call for experimentation.

[trulybloom.livejournal.com]

The only problem with sporks is that they have very short tines. They keep putting a spork in my take-away salad, but the tines are not long enough to spear any lettuce - it's very frustrating.

sporks

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

part of the problem is that the plastic is slidey and bendy. i do wonder whether one couldn't design a decent metal one.

[brooksmoses]

The tines are also usually triangular on the plastic ones, which in combination with the shortness means that they form a pretty wide angle, so when they spear things the things just fall off.

I suspect that making the gaps between the tines substantially more U-shaped (possibly even with bits of square bottom) with straight sides so that the tines have a significant -- even if only 6mm long or so -- section with parallel sides would help that substantially.

Edit: The titanium one linked to in the original post looks a bit better about this, but only a bit.

[trulybloom.livejournal.com]

The tines are also usually triangular on the plastic ones...so when they spear things the things just fall off.

Yes! Completely useless for salads - I don't know why the company includes them.

spork tine shape

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

ah yes, that's the problem now that i've looked at them closely. will take that into account when/if experimenting.

the type 1 spork (as i call it), the ones that just have a fork at one end and a spoon at the other, don't have that problem. but i don't like those as much because they don't really allow the use of both during the same meal.

[dubiousprospects.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Titanium table ware has the unfortunate property of being hard enough to score many ceramics.

So while I really like the Ti KFS I have, it's not something to use on the good dishes.

titanium spork

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

since they make it for backpackers, they probably expect it to not be used on ceramics. but yeah, that's a good point, and something i hadn't thought of.

[huashan.livejournal.com]

I keep my titanium spork in the case with my titanium chopsticks. Amazingly useful on trips, especially in China.

titanium chopsticks

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

!!!

Re: titanium chopsticks

[huashan.livejournal.com]

My...you're excitable today.

Re: titanium chopsticks

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

it's the titanium. it gets me hard.