The Holy Grail of Long Handled Spoons?

[James Marco]

Have yo ever tried to flip an egg with a plastic spoon? They do not work well and the plastic melts on the hot pan. I dropped the plastic bull crap and went to a BackpackingLight ti spoon. The Sea to Summit makes a good aluminum, long handled spoon. Aluminum conducts heat better than ti, so, the handle gets a little warm near the bowel. But, it weighs in at 11.3gm. Much better than any plastic.

[bradmacmt]

So the “Finess City” Ti spoon arrived today, will use it this weekend. Pretty darn nice! There’s more thought put into this spoon than the average.

Right to left:

Finess City Ti, 0.8 oz’s

REI Lexan, 0.6 oz’s

Carlisle Portion Control Spoon, 0.5 oz’s

MSR Folding Spoon, 0.4 oz’s

The business end of the Finess City vs MSR:

Finess City vs. REI Lexan:

[JCH]

Looks really nice…just wish it folded :)

[bradmacmt]

Looks really nice…just wish it folded :)

OK, this is getting nuts… just for you I ordered this… seriously:

I’ll report back :)

 

 

[Jeffs Eleven]

That, sir, is the holy grail.

[JCH]

That’s what I’m talking about!  :)

[Roger Caffin]

It is still only 8.2″ long fully extended.

Cheers

[David Thomas]

I told my wife it was 9″.

[Geoff Caplan]

You gotta love a thread with 84 posts on spoons! Not that we’re obsessive or anything…

The British satirical mag Private Eye has a long running joke where they do spoof interviews with celebs about their favourite spoon. With us lot, they could do it for real!

[TOU-47]

Interesting, very nice…thx for posting it. That said, $32.50/per…WOW!

 

In the description it says 0.56 oz, further down it says “Item = 0.8 oz”.

I found this in one of the reviews…

Verified on a tabletop digital postal scale that the spoon weighs 22g/0.78oz which is 2g lighter than the claimed weight on the packaging. There may be lighter utensils out there but if you’re planning to eat Mountain House meals right out of the bag on a backpacking trip then this is probably the closest thing to a regular spoon as far as texture/polishing is concerned. 

[Bill in Roswell]

Snow Peak has the folding fork for $22. However, it appears that the folding spoon is no longer made via Snow Peak’s JP website. So the high price for the few existing Snow Peak folding spoons has some justification. Making a folding spoon from a Toaks or similar spoon sounds like a good weekend shop project!

Cheers,
Bill in Roswell

[Bill in Roswell]

I saw a Ti spoon that had tabs with holes to fit a chopstick the other day, but I can’t find it and unfortunately didn’t bookmark it. However I did come across a Ti spoon with nice size business end from Valtcan (Toaks competitor). They are sold out of the spoon but do have a combo with spoon and spork https://www.valtcan.com/collections/titanium-products/products/valtcan-titanium-spork-and-spoon-set-camping-essentials-with-cleaning-and-carrying-bag
Price for the pair is pretty good at $22. Buy the set, sell the one you don’t want.
Cheers,
Bill in Roswell, GA

[Bill in Roswell]

Pretty darn easy to flatten out a tube with a bench vise.

[TOU-47]

 

Came across these tonight.

Humangear Gobites Duo

Very interesting, very light (0.36 oz), durable (lifetime warrantee), cheap ($7.79…delivered), short OR long (when joined), great reviews (4.8/5.0) not Ti (good to some).

[Roger Caffin]

I saw the same set of spoon and spork on eBay for $11.18 (P&P $0). Curiously, it was advertised as “new with flaw’, but I could not see any difference between the pics.
The spoon by itself seems to go for about $3.50 or less. Sporks are even cheaper.

There are also hordes of ads for real matching forks to go with the spoon. Those too are very ‘inexpensive’.

With hundreds of vendors all using the same advertising picture, I suspect there is a single factory with a single die set, hammering away Chinese-style, plus a huge ecosystem of little vendors each buying a dozen to sell on eBay.

Cheers

[JCH]

I saw a Ti spoon that had tabs with holes to fit a chopstick the other day…

Kung Foon.  No longer available, but a stainless version is.

[Matthew / BPL]

The Kung Foon is almost wonderful. I wish they made it in a spoon version. Also, the included chopsticks are inconveniently long and pointy when packing. When assembled the utensil is extremely long.

[Diane Pinkers]

I saw this one on Garage Grown Gear:

https://www.garagegrowngear.com/collections/ultralight-backpacking/products/morsel-xl-by-morsel

The scraping part is interesting, and it is certainly long enough, but the spoon part doesn’t look like it would hold enough.

The comparison above of the “business end” between the MSR folding spoon and that Ti spoon almost had me convinced. I’ve changed how I pack my spoon, and the folding function may no longer be necessary.

[JCH]

Not strictly spoon related…

I strongly suspect I’m in the minority having never before seen the Chork but…yeah…no thanks.

[Matthew / BPL]

tbh i’d rather a choon ymmv

[JCH]

If you gotta…a Choon fer sure.

[rmeurant]

Like Pamhikes, I use the Humangear Gobites Duo. The base of the spoon and fork slot together, to provide a longer utensil. The two nest and slot together as well for storage. But the bowl is too shallow for my liking, and it’s a little too squarish/angular/flattened. Too slow to use for soup (bowl capacity too low), and too likely/easy to spill. Also, awkward inside the mouth. And a little on the heavy side.

[Bill in Roswell]

Good call. That’s it! Sadly no longer made it appears.

[TOU-47]

For fun, I recently ordered & recieved 2 Lixada Ti long spoons with polished bowl. With the exception of slightly different shade of orange on the accompanying sleeve & the shade of gray anodization…they are absolutely identical. I mean they even fit perfectly over one another of stacked…perfectly. They are also less expensive.

I’m guessing they are not a copy per se…more like produced in the same factory is my guess.

So 2 of my kids just got new spoons. 😊

Toaks Ti spoon

https://www.rei.com/product/139473/toaks-titanium-long-handle-spoon-with-polished-bowl

Lixada Ti spoon

[jscott]

post 100! and I haven’t posted a single thing other than this on this thread! Gag me with a spoon!

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