Soup drips through and you stab yourself: the spork is the worst utensil

[Thom]

Sporks rule ! All you naysayers are probably right handed to!!!

Thom

[Jerry Adams]

You think so thom?

Hmmm… I may have to rethink this

[Terran Terran]

[Kevin Babione]

Loving this thread (thank you Roger).  My primary utensil is a long-handled Ti spoon with a polished bowl and a flat-ish tip.  It’s perfect for eating out of PackitGourmet bags.

With that said, I think I’ve had 7-10 Ti sporks given to me as gifts over the years because people who don’t use them think they’re cool.  I used to throw one in any time I sold anything on Gear Swap and then saw a cheap gadget on Vargo Outdoors (they no longer carry it).  Basically it was a U-shaped piece of silicon that allowed you to turn any two utensils into tongs – something like Anytongs.  I often take steak as our first night trail meal and have found that two Ti sporks do indeed make a great pair of tongs!  Finally a good use for them!

[John Brochu]

Sporks rule ! All you naysayers are probably right handed to!!!

Despite agreeing with Roger’s opinion about sporks, I’ve only just last month replaced mine with a spoon in my kit. I used that spork since about 2007. And I am left handed, so you might be onto something.

[Axel J]

The only thing worse than a spork is an ergonomic spork. Ergo for righties but all dribble for us lefties. I’m in the spoon camp except when it comes to Ramen. Haven’t figured out how to spoon a noodle yet.

[AK Granola]

Just crumple up the ramen before you cook it.  Voila, spoon-able. Unless you happen to have chopsticks, then the noodles are no problem.

[John Brochu]

Crush the Ramen noodles into little bits before you cook it, and then eat it like a soup/stew with a spoon.

[Roger Caffin]

The ultimate spoon:

Cheers

[Roger Caffin]

If you pick the right noodles, you don’t need to break them up at all.

(Why the little take-away plas spoon? Ahem – because I forgot the full-sized cutlery that trip! This was an ’emergency’ spoon normally used for coffee. That was for Sue: I used a carved stick for a while.)

Cheers

[Marcus]

Here Here!

I found a nice S2S spork at a camp and promptly gifted it to a friend in need.

As the author says, the spork is good for nothing! It cannot be considered UL to me, because it does not actually perform adequately at moving food to my mouth!

The long handle polished bowl spoon is a clear winner to me.

Often my group is only camping 1-3 nights which means fresh food, so a Ti fork is usually included too for steak and such. This gets left behind for longer trips

[Axel J]

Crush the Ramen noodles into little bits before you cook it, and then eat it like a soup/stew with a spoon.

Genius. Glad I asked.

[Terran Terran]

That red one. Great for emergency tonsillectomies.

[moggie]

I have to say I adore sporks, so much so that I don’t even use a fork at home. Normally I eat with a spork in one hand and pointy chopsticks in the other. (If it’s soup, I’ll swap out the spork for a long spoon.)

But if I go backpacking, all I take is a short-handled spoon that fits inside my pot.

[Zero Flight]

If you can’t eat soup with a spork, you’re no real adventurer.  I know what you’re thinking. That’s no spork, but a fork. Nobody can eat soup with a fork! Well, my friend, you did not know Ysgramor.

 

[Sarah Kirkconnell]

Lord I hate sporks. I use a spoon and chopsticks. Done. If I can’t eat my food, I have other issues.

[Sarah Kirkconnell]

Bamboo chopsticks.

[Thom]

I’ve tried and tried! I can’t eat soup with chopsticks
Thom

[Adam Kilpatrick]

Team spoon for sure. Bought a Ti Spork back in the day when BPL sold them. I can’t even find it… probably donated it to charity (I know, a cruel thing to do…but I figure it probably sat on a shelf for 15 years until a Reddit ULer found it…). Still have and use several Ti spoons though.

I’ve never taken them on a trip, but I have a pair of wooden Japanese chopsticks that are a svelte 7.59g and lovely to use with noodles or anything that isn’t mush. A big advantage of chopsticks is I think they are easier to clean than a Fork. Food particles don’t really stick to them. I’m talking fractions of seconds of effort here of course, usually in a fully stocked kitchen.

[Sarah Kirkconnell]

You can drink soup. You don’t even need a spoon. It’s just a nicety.

[Roger Caffin]

I can drink soup, but not when it is around 90 C!
Then I blow on the spoon.
Cheers

[Sarah Kirkconnell]

Just let the soup sit and cool. 5 minutes and good to go. Kind of like hot black coffee…….

[Roger Caffin]

If I leave the soup to cool for 5 minutes in midwinter in the snow, I may have to remove the ice layer on top.

Not kidding. If Sue washes a bowl with hot water and sits it down in the tent in the snow, the water will turn into ice within a minute, before I can dry the bowl. Mind you, that just means I can then give the bowl a good whack and all the ice falls off. You win some, and you lose some.

Cheers

[Terran Terran]

Porridge too hot. Porridge too cold. Are there bears in this story?

[Roger Caffin]

Drop Bears.
Look them up.

Cheers

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