Serious Eats HQ Got New Sporks
Serrated edge on the fork.
Ed went to Baltimore last weekend and came back with sporks from the American Visionary Art Museum. This isn't your typical fanged spoon, where the cutlery duo sits on one end. This involves a spoon on one side, fork on the other and a serrated side. Sporknife?
So far we've used them to cut oranges (sharp enough), scoop up oatmeal (deep enough), and even open a plastic-wrapped Dr. John album. So multi-talented, that spork! Ergonomically comfortable, these Light My Fire brand sporks were designed by Joachim Nordwall. They come in 19 colors, and when ordered in bulk, special theme packages exist like "combat" (green and gray) and "bistro" (your mod red and black). As tough as life can be sometimes, it's good to know sporks exist. Available for $2.79 each on Amazon.
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21 Comments:
Spork! I love sporks! Someone must have a collection of sporks somewhere.. or maybe a spork museum!
nibblepig at 9:40AM on 02/04/09
I'm feeling compelled to mention the Spork Restaurant in San Francisco, made from a refurbished KFC... www.sporksf.com
kaszeta at 9:40AM on 02/04/09
something that awesome exists at the AVAM? I need to get over there- that's the perfect implement for keeping at my desk for lunch at work!
valser at 9:52AM on 02/04/09
Clearly, as an authoritative food blog, you should name it something else due to the addition of a knife component. Summon your creativity and give us something original!
franklyn at 9:59AM on 02/04/09
A slicing spork makes so much more sense. Does the serrated edge get in the way? Would you need to have different designs for R handed versus L handed? Recommended for little ones, or too sharp? Cuts.....what.......chicken, pork, steak?
PerkyMac at 10:20AM on 02/04/09
I think it was here that I first heard about knorks, but this ultimate combination of a knork and a spork needs an equally excellent unique moniker I think... Knoroon? Sporfe?
annabanannas at 10:27AM on 02/04/09
Looks like a great idea. Hope it's not made of cheap, breakable plastic.
dmcavanagh at 10:52AM on 02/04/09
These are so cool! I'd probably get overly excited and end up using both ends in one meal and getting food all over myself.
Laurel E at 10:57AM on 02/04/09
I own 3. My father found them at a store one day and thought of me. The one I've got here at the office is yellow. The knife is pretty useless.
There's got to be a better term than "sporknife" but I just keep calling it a "spork" despite the knife.
CanadianFoodieGirl at 11:02AM on 02/04/09
i love that museum. they rent their space out for weddings too (in case anyone is interested). it was one of the options i looked at for my own wedding.
french tart at 11:06AM on 02/04/09
I own a number of these and they are great for things that don't require a great deal of cutting. Nice and sturdy plastic.
curiositykt at 11:19AM on 02/04/09
Guess you'll need two of these to use the knife option, unless you're at a place where it's ok to hold the food down with one hand and cut with the other.
What am I talking about? Anything goes at a place that serves food with sporknives.
Cassaendra at 11:30AM on 02/04/09
anthony bourdain & andrew zimmern were both presented with knife-fork-spoon-STRAW combos from a metal sculpture artist in the an episode of bizarre eats in brooklyn???
dmarina at 12:24PM on 02/04/09
Haha, i remember that episode. That was when they went to the place that barbecues their burgers in the back right?
Where was that, Park Slope?
TheUE at 1:45PM on 02/04/09
I love these, I have one in my bag right now! I studied in Denmark for a summer and these are at all the museums and design stores there because they're made by a Scandinavian designer. My friend and I decided to call them 'spifes' (spork + knife)...
itsdelux at 1:45PM on 02/04/09
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but I'm imagining one side of my mouth (the one unlucky enough to have to suffer the knife side of this contraption) raw and bloody each time I withdraw the sporknife or whatever from my poor lips. Wouldn't this cut up your mouth?
juliebugsmama at 2:37PM on 02/04/09
I have one of these, my roommates mom got them on the internet and sent them to us. You can hurt yourself on the knife part, but you kind of have to be clutzy to do so. Meaning, I've done so, and my roommate was all O.o how did you do that... Since I hurt myself on it, I've been more careful and haven't hurt myself since. They are quite durable,and we've been putting ours in the dishwasher, no harm so far.
ktoth04 at 3:16PM on 02/04/09
So cool, I've seen a combined knife and fork but never with a spoon on the other handle. So much for my non-dominant hand getting any more exercise..
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Chew on That at 3:57PM on 02/04/09
That is so cool! It looks so sturdy.
runnereater at 8:37PM on 02/04/09
I've got one of these that I keep in my shoulder bag at all times. I'm great at bringing leftovers with me for lunch or dinner, and really bad at remembering to bring the proper silverware. So, this is keeps me from having to eat fettuccine with a table knife, and other such disasters. I've taken to calling it a 'unitensil' as I couldn't form any combination of 'knife' + 'fork' + 'spoon' that rolled off the tongue.
davewells at 1:41PM on 02/05/09
If you're really into sporks then you defiantly need to check out the "titanium spork of the gods" from thinkgeek.com
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/kitchen/8ace/
The Food Scientist at 6:21PM on 03/03/09