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Eating Utensils: A snapshot of the market, and reasonable alternatives

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Nov 5, 2011 at 5:23 pm #1798921

Kevin Adden
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@ermine

"I wish someone made a folding titanium spoon that is deep as the sporks."

Brunton make one. Unfortunately you have to buy it as part of a set with an accompanying fork.

Nov 5, 2011 at 5:59 pm #1798934

Dale Wambaugh
BPL Member

@dwambaugh
Locale: Pacific Northwest

Many kitchen stores have bamboo spoons now. Sur La Table is one: http://www.surlatable.com/product/PRO-586529/Bamboo-Spoons

Nov 5, 2011 at 9:01 pm #1798994

Ryan Smith
BPL Member

@violentgreen
Locale: East TN

I ordered a 6" and 7.5" bamboo spoon from surlatable.com a few days ago and will have them on Monday. Will post a weight shortly thereafter.

Ryan

Nov 6, 2011 at 11:22 am #1799113

Trevor Leaf
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@homerjay

I've used the same bamboo spatula as my main cooking/eating utensil for at least 10 years. I cut off about a third of the width of the spatula part to make it more mouth sized which also brought the weight down to 11g. It's passable as an eating utensil, but great at everything else down to flipping fish and scrapping the burnt nubbins from the bottom of the pot. It cleans up easily too!

below is a link where you can buy the same one for a whopping $3.80

http://www.trailspace.com/gear/backpackers-pantry/utu-wood-spatulaknife/

Nov 6, 2011 at 6:14 pm #1799227

Don Morris
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@hikermor

I agree that sporks are bogus. I rather like titanium spoons, but the very best, cheapest, lightest of all is the small white plastic spoon that used to come in MREs. I am not sure that it is included in the latest rations, but it is a very good tool.

Nov 7, 2011 at 2:48 pm #1799477

Miles Spathelf
BPL Member

@miless

Thanks for the updates and pictures. I've forwarded the info to their ebay store and hopefully they will get back with me. Cheers!

Nov 8, 2011 at 3:40 pm #1799858

Ryan Smith
BPL Member

@violentgreen
Locale: East TN

FYI – Got my Surlatable bamboo spoons today. The 6" is 12.9g and the 7.5" was I believe 14.4g. So quite a bit heavier than Konrad's. Never fear – sandpaper is here.

Ryan

Nov 8, 2011 at 4:43 pm #1799866

Mary D
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@hikinggranny
Locale: Gateway to Columbia River Gorge

I do just fine with the $0.95 REI Lexan soup spoon. It's long enough to easily stir rehydrated meals in a quart freezer bag. Sarah, why don't you use these once you're out of the GSI spoons?

I still have a BPL Ti folding spoon that I used for one trip and then tossed in my "misc. unused gear" plastic bin. It was too short and the hinge held on to the food and was far too hard to clean!

On the rare occasions I'm eating something I want to stab, I use my knife. Knives were always used for this purpose until the invention of the "runcible spoon" (fork) a couple of centuries ago.
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