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With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake? (mander.xyz)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 7 months ago (6 children)

A small fork is generally considered the "correct" cutlery for cake in Denmark

I must have missed that memo, but I completely agree. It's just the best tool for the job.

Obviously a teaspoon serves the purpose just as well

No they don't.

And we are not a pretentious people

Neither am I. My preference is purely practical.

many don't even have the forks

That's fair. I only have them because I got some as a cheap "here, have this too" Christmas gift a couple years ago.

Before that, I had no idea how much better they are for the purpose than tea spoons.

Since they are pretty useless for anything else

Mostly true, but you're allowed to own specialized cutlery, just like you're allowed to own kitchen appliances that do a specific thing better than others that do more things.

So the small forks are basically superfluous. not strictly necessary, but DEFINITELY useful

Fixed it for you.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I must have missed that memo

    Maybe you are not old enough, such things used to be way more important half a century ago.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    Yeah, half a century ago, I was minus seven years old 🤷🏻

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    I suppose you mean "minus" instead of minutes.
    I suspected something of that sort. Back then using teaspoons was considered somewhat casual.
    And now you find the old ways kind of neat. Yes the old cake fork has a slight advantage in that it can be used as a fork, and it typically has an edge to "cut" if it's a proper one. But in reality those "advantages" don't really matter, at least not for most people.
    A cake can be cut with a teaspoon just as well, and for most cakes the fork function doesn't really work, and in my experience the fork is used as a spoon anyway.

    But hey, have fun. Do what you like. 😀

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    I suppose you mean "minus" instead of minutes

    Yeah, that was an autocorrect error lol

    those "advantages" don't really matter, at least not for most people.

    Whether they agree with me on the relative merits of dessert forks and tea spoons, I guarantee that most people prefer to use whichever one they find most convenient.

    Deciding that it doesn't matter AT ALL to most people just because you seemingly consider using the slightly better option to be elitist compared to using an inferior (at the specific use) but more versatile utensil os a very weird take 😄

    A cake can be cut with a teaspoon just as well

    Nope. That's categorically untrue.

    Some might prefer a teaspoon based on other properties, but the flatter profile of the fork makes it moderately better at cutting and infinitely better at stabbing your cake like a pitchfork gathering hay.

    for most cakes the fork function doesn't really work

    Again, that's categorically untrue. More fluid-adjacent cakes might benefit from the scooping capabilities more than the stabbing and superior cutting abilities of the fork, but they're by far the minority rather than the majority.

    But hey, have fun. Do what you like

    Weird thing to say after spending so much time and effort telling me how doing what I like is wrong and unpopular, but thanks for the permission, I guess 🤷🏻😄

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Weird thing to say after spending so much time and effort telling me how doing what I like is wrong and unpopular,

    I have no idea what your problem is? I never claimed in any way it is wrong, I also showed that it used to be way more popular than it is today.
    I just state the reasons I think it kind of fell out of fashion.

    but thanks for the permission, I guess

    It is not a permission, that wouldn't make any sense whatsoever. On the contrary it's an acknowledgement of you not just following the mainstream but doing what you like.

    I have no idea why you would be butthurt about any of this?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I moved to Denmark a few years ago, and have been picking up a line of cutlery whenever I see stuff I need in red cross stores. I have small tea spoons, big tea spoons, and one tiny cake fork.

    I prefer the smaller tea spoons not only for ice cream cake, but anything served with ice cream. So typically that's also a lot of pies. The fork is better for dry crumbly cakes, but the spoons are better for creamy cakes. I wouldn't eat a tiramisu with a fork if I have a spoon available.

    The bigger tea spoons I mostly only use for yogurt and stuff like that.

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