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Chopsticks + Fork= The Chork

gadling.com — The convenience of a fork and the style of chopsticks. Pretty ingenious!

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  • tylerc66, on 10/12/2007, -41/+10How cool is that
    • praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -17/+119I'm sorry, but it'll never beat the genius of the spork. The spork is a gift from the gods.
    • nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -153/+13you know, for a people that eat some of the smallest food imaginable in quantities of the hundreds (rice), I can't believe Asians were stupid enough to invent chopsticks instead of the spoon or fork.....
    • ohthedaysofyore, on 10/12/2007, -32/+178Yeah, us silly Asians and our chopsticks. Because, you know, we've never had spoons or anything. Far beyond our primitive "stick" technology.

      Blow it out your ass you fat son of a bitch.
    • Shwenk, on 10/12/2007, -55/+8Atheism
    • quomen, on 10/12/2007, -19/+23"you know, for a people that eat some of the smallest food imaginable in quantities of the hundreds (rice), I can't believe Asians were stupid enough to invent chopsticks instead of the spoon or fork....."
      Maybe you're ignorant, maybe you're just the stupid one, but Asians use spoons.
      Think again and try to educate yourself before making stupid judgments about our culture and call us stupid..
      Anyway most of you probably use forks, but for me chopsticks are so much easier to use. I find this "chork" more of a style thing than a functional utensil. It's more or less an extension of my hand.. and with a spoon and chopsticks, what food can you not eat?
    • SamsLembas, on 10/12/2007, -30/+3@quomen

      Huh?
    • blapierre, on 10/12/2007, -5/+47Not very. Chopsticks aren't very hard to use.
    • MasterChi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+33@Quomen

      This is the only utensil you will ever need. Get one for each hand and you shall be called a god.

      http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/8ace/
    • qber, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4whoops
      digg down
    • blahtastic, on 10/12/2007, -8/+6"what food can you not eat? =P"

      Pizza. Hamburgers.

      I suppose you could but you'd have to stab/smush the hell out of them with the spoon.

      Semi related question: Anyone else like me who enjoys a good excuse to use chopsticks almost as much as the Chinese/other asian food itself?
    • REBOP, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3@nreynolds

      That's why they bred "sticky rice" varieties.
      They always had spoon/scoop utensils.

      @blahtastic

      yes.
    • BGFeltenink, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3I think China has had the fork for a while, independent of western influence... you ever wondered why they call fine dinnerware "China?"

      I like chop sticks though, I don't see how you can eat sushi with anything other than the sticks or your hands. Anything else would be awkward.
    • Cwo655321, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3@BGF-moron
      thats not why they call it china you idiot, its called that because it is imported from china.
    • nathanwalker, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3@blahtastic

      Pizza?? Thats what the futter is for.

      http://www.kitchencontraptions.com/archives/004593.php
    • turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1@cwo, your a dumbass, that is EXACTLY what he was saying.

      chopsticks just offer a different level of food eating. Some people enjoy it, some people would rather shovel there faces. It's really not our decision to push food eating utensils on people.
    • Cwo655321, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2@turpenine
      stfu before i spork you in the face

      ohh and its either "you're" or "you are" you ass
    • nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -15/+7sorry for not being educated enough of asian utensils. All I know is when I go to a chinese restaurant, I get rice and chopsticks, and it's ***** stupid.
    • Anthem26, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14What happened to the good ole' days where we just used our hands...
    • FTLJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -6/+29A Fork/Pizza Cutter is called a "Futter"? Do you buy it at the dollar store?


      BUCK FUTTER!!!!!
    • xeno439, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Chinese eat rice with chopsticks. Koreans use a spoon. By the way, in Korea we use metal chopsticks, so the whole "feel of wood against your lips" theory wouldn't hold with the metal chork. I agree with ohthedaysofyore that nreynolds should blow it out his ass.
    • Platypus3333, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Just to ease your pain in the future...

      To eat rice with chopsticks, you don't try to pick up rice like you would, say, a vegetable. Instead, you hold the chopsticks parallel, a small distance apart, and scoop the rice. Chinese rice is fairly clumpy and sticky.

      Normally you'd go further, holding up the bowl as if you were drinking soup and scooping the rice straight into your mouth, but I'm not sure how standard that is with people that aren't Asian.
    • Carteelith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Dugg for:

      "but still want the luxury of wood pressing against your lips as you shovel food into your mouth."

      wow. FTA
    • texpundit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"What happened to the good ole' days where we just used our hands..."

      What do you mean good ole days? My roommates are middle eastern and we eat traditional style all the time (trad style = bread and fingers as utensils).

      PS: I'm about as white as they come.
    • taboam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Many Asian cultures use chopsticks because it's considered rude to have weapons at the table
    • rootneg2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@masterchi (or anybody that likes chopsticks...)

      the same (camping supply) company that makes the titanium "Spork of the Gods"; also makes a slick pair of "folding" chopsticks
      http://www.snowpeak.com/gears/sct003.htm
    • Genma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8worst idea ever, cleaning them would be a bitch also. and from the shape of the point I can't see how you would pierce your food without wrecking it.

      to the western barbarian, which sounds more civilized and practical:
      a) spearing and sawing at your food on the table as you eat it
      b) letting the cook do it so you can place or scoop bite sized amounts

      asians have always had fork like utensils, they were just reserved for the ones preparing the food. also the old school chinese consider it rude to be putting food/rice in your mouth with the bowl away from your face, so traditional chopsticks are sort of ideal for the placing and scooping motion.
    • buibui, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6haha oh wow it's amazing how many people don't know how to use chopsticks with rice
    • rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4great. now can someone please invent a baseball cap that holds two saki bottles with curly straws?
    • Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I once caught my parents eating pizza, milk & cereal, and salad with chopsticks. Yea, I think my parents are crazy too.
      Haven't seen hamburgers yet, but I'm sure they can pull it off.
    • Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3All you western savages. Using spoons to scoop food, while we use them as an alternative to q-tips.
      No joke!
    • chingy1788, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I shall raise a question
      why are they called chop sticks
      they don't chop anything... they're not sharp enough...
    • goodoldharris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4nreynolds:

      "you know, for a people that eat some of the smallest food imaginable in quantities of the hundreds (rice), I can't believe Asians were stupid enough to invent chopsticks instead of the spoon or fork....."

      There are plenty of foods that are easier to eat with chopsticks than with spoons, forks, or fork/knife combinations. Given your comment, that's probably hard for you to imagine, but trust me, it's true. You haven't had enough experience with chopsticks to judge. After having lived in Asia for many years, there are a whole whack of foods I would rather eat with chopsticks - because it's easier. And, they do have spoons for rice and soup - always have. Here's a picture of a Chinese spoon:
      http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Chinese_spoon.jpg#file
      Spoons in Japan have a similar shape.

      Forks maybe, but spoons are not a Western invention. People have been using spoons since before there was any civilization in the East or the West.
    • Berkana, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@taboam

      You obviously haven't seen someone use chopsticks as weapons. It can be done, and can be rather deadly, especially with those keen metal Korean chopstick shurikens.
    • KidVicious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"I can't believe Asians were stupid enough to invent chopsticks instead of the spoon or fork....."

      They were also stupid enough to invent gunpowder. What an impractical invention, silly Asians...

      P.S.: Chopsticks were invented and are used because it is considered rude to have weapons (e.g. forks, knives) at the table.
    • Rickard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Pfft! This has nothing on the knife-wrench!

      http://rickardandersson.com/2007/04/13/knife-wrench-for-kids/
    • wwwdot1jesdotus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"sorry for not being educated enough of asian utensils. All I know is when I go to a chinese restaurant, I get rice and chopsticks, and it's f***ing stupid."

      And yet, you keep going.
    • DiggDawgg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"sorry for not being educated enough of asian utensils. All I know is when I go to a chinese restaurant, I get rice and chopsticks, and it's f***ing stupid."

      What you don't know is, then they sit in the back and watch you make an idiot of yourself trying to eat.
    • rootneg2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"sorry for not being educated enough of asian utensils. All I know is when I go to a chinese restaurant, I get rice and chopsticks, and it's ***** stupid."

      As an Asian who uses chopstick; I actually have to say that I can somewhat share this sentiment regarding American-Chinese food restaurants. (like PFChang's *ew*, etc.)

      But the problem isn't really the rice/chopstick combo. It's the PLATE. You can't eat rice with chopsticks off a plate! you need a rice-bowl! They're not really for picking up stuff like tweezers, they're mostly for shoveling, and you can't bring up a plate to your mouth and do the chopstick shovel. I *always* have to ask for a little rice-bowl when they give me chopsticks. When you combine it with the fact that most American-Chinese restaurants don't have /quite/ sticky enough rice, it's just plain aggravating.

      knife and fork for a plate and individual portions.
      chopsticks for a little rice-bowl and big serving platters.
  • Boghiu, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11Classy :P
    • MasterChi, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19It looks similar to a clothpin lol.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clothpin.jpg
    • blahtastic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41I just realized you wikied a clothespin for us. That made my day. Are there really people who have never seen an old style clothespin on here?
    • REBOP, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3No, its digg. We argue that the tech isn't "breaking", and not "frontpage worthy" - blah blah blah.
    • ptFoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5it's a forcep
    • SultanTravi, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12*****. digg me down.

      :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
      :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
  • rdy4cmbt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Sweet deal
  • Jorlwind, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Cool and all, but I can't help but not that it looks less like a cross of the two and more like a primitive fork.
  • mrpeg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Now I can finally eat sushi when I'm too drunk to walk!
  • SmackMyMac, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3I had a "Me Chinese" joke all lined up for this

    I just can't.... not after the Classy comment....
  • Pucciarelli, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26Tweezers?
    • GrendelT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Exactly, the Chork isn't a new invention. Wikipedia tells us tweezers were used by the Romans and Egyptians. This is simply a new name for an old item.
    • Berkana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, but who wants to be told their utensil options are tweezers or forks and spoons?
    • s0nicfreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1When I worked at a Japanese restaurant we'd make what we called cheaters, which were pretty much the same as these. We'd unwrap chopsticks, roll up the paper and rubber band it in between the tops, so they were connected the same way these are. Stupider people would just stab the food with the ends.
  • SmackMyMac, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3BTW, that Sounds really dirty......

    "And if things go well, maybe she'll show me her chork."
  • gmurray, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7How lazy and impatient can we get? *sigh*
    • j01101010, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20I don't know and I don't want to put effort into finding out either
  • iMoth, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1tony jaa kicks ass.
  • ooMissioNoo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Now i will be able to eat in Chinese restaurants. I'll still be hungry in an hour most likely
  • Switchnig, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4kill whitey
    • idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, I think it's a good album too but this is not a discussion about east coast anarchist punk rock.
  • chrisbasham, on 07/22/2008, -4/+14If I would get any of those, I'd end up wasting my time pretending to be Wolverine.
  • qber, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5What? The whole point of chopsticks is being able to open and close them to grip food. That doesn't seem possible with this, which makes it little more than a very stylized fork.
  • ECas123, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2I can imagine dinners around America now "Timmy just chork the chicken!"
  • iStunT, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Ive seen a fork, spoon, and knife all in one at a restaurants while i was in NY. Blades on the sides, points at the front, and a half dome all around. Someone clearly wasn't thinking because when you eat soup for instance, you can actually cut your tongue or cheeks from the knife part.
    • purple, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Personally, I don't shove the spoon in my mouth and make a sawing/stabbing motion, when I eat soup.
  • DeFex, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2The word "chork" just sounds wrong.its what bums do from smoking too much, like a cross between choke and hork
  • douglasbenson, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4I'm not a big fan of "wood" pressing against my lips...
    • saska, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I bet if you were just a little more flexible you'd change your tune.
  • griz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Chork? What sort of a name is that. Sounds like what happens if you eat to fast.

    "The other day, I was using a fork to eat and I just about chorked on my kung pao."
  • ..eD, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3"I'm American, I like to eat my meals in 2 minutes or less, and that's just not possible with chopsticks."

    Hey American dude. Stick to using your fork. For that matter, you might as well go straight to using your hands...
  • Abennobashi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3You know what another cool word is?

    Bourgie.
  • algorimancer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Chopsticks are easy, you just have to be persistent and not just say "this is hard" and pick up a fork instead (something I've repeatedly seen Americans do). Heck, little kids learn to use them all over Asia. Persist in eating a meal with them, then another, and you'll have the hang of it. My intro was at a restaurant in a Houston Chinatown where you had to ask for a fork if you wanted one. Eventually I picked up my own set and started using them at home, now it's been somewhere near 20 years and I use them on about half the meals I eat. Funny though, I hear that in Japan the skill is beginning to fade with the younger generation. My experience has been that some foods just taste better with wooden utensils, and with experience eating with chopsticks becomes very similar to eating with your fingers... lot's more control. A skill every grown-up ought to acquire at some point in their life.
    • adeadwaffle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Why is everyone picking on Americans? Are you saying people in other countries dont give up on using chop sticks?
    • treskel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2exactly. most USA citizens could also try to learn another language than merkin
  • dcbebop, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Isn't chork == chicken + pork? I smell a trademark infringement battle!
  • eatbeefjerky, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Chopsticks make food taste better, imo (and no, I'm not Asian). I was expecting a pair of sticks with tiny tines (the fancy word for the pointy bits on your fork) on the ends. This thingy looks like it would be difficult to eat with. Chopsticks forevar.
    • Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1it looks like a ninja weapon
    • screensnot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Chopsticks make your food taste better? Do you taste the wood?

      If I wanted to get the wooden taste, couldn't I just grind up some wood, sprinkle it on my food, then eat it with a fork?
    • s0nicfreak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@screenshot

      No, you don't taste the wood (or the plastic, or whatever the chopsticks are made of), which is why it's better. With spoons and forks, you (or at least *I*) taste the metal.
    • screensnot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@s0nicfreak

      Can spoons/forks be made out of wood/plastic/ivory/etc.?

      Do people that use metal chopsticks like the taste of metal?

      Should I consider myself lucky or inferior, because I can't taste the metal when I use stainless steel or silver utensils?
  • BigDaddyBucyk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4A horrible and useless gadget, learn to use chopsticks.
    • Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Agreed. You know if you don't know how to use chopsticks, a better alternative would be... I dunno, a FORK?
      Dining ware is like toilet paper. You'll never find a practical improvement on either for another thousand years. Dining ware's latest and great was the spork and that took a long time for someone to think of. It'll be a while before something like that will come about again. As for toilet paper, we'll just have to wait for the 3 seashell thing.
  • benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Are they extra sharp so I can stab weeaboo/wapanese with them?
    • Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wapanese? Sounds like a slug against 1/2 Japanese 1/2 Italian.
  • Herolint, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4FTA: "I'm American, I like to eat my meals in 2 minutes or less..."

    Obviously this person doesn't know how to use chopsticks Japanese style. You can down an entire meal in seconds with chopsticks.

    The Japanese pick up their bowls, place the rim in their mouth, and scoop all the food into their mouths with the chopsticks. Much more efficient that the American way of eating.
  • jlawrence10, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I would have gone with "Fopsticks"
  • Sabin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I'm Canadian and I can safely say that I can eat faster with chopsticks than with a fork as long as there is nothing big enough that it will require cutting. Then again I live in Toronto so I might as well be asian anyways.
  • u1tima, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"you know, for a people that eat some of the smallest food imaginable in quantities of the hundreds (rice), I can't believe Asians were stupid enough to invent chopsticks instead of the spoon or fork....."

    I guess you eat your rice raw because cooked rice clumps well.
  • DarkMeld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2u can get the same effect by using those restaurant chopsticks without breaking them apart
  • gd1z, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm digging just for the title. I laughed.
  • mrberns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I actually made a hybrid chopstick/fork for a second grade class project, and I have to say, i think my design was probably a bit more functional than these salad tongs.
  • BeyondGoodNEvil, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I don't care what anyone says. Chopsticks are an inferior way to eat virtually everything. Maybe it's because I was fed thin soup every day and could only use chopsticks to spoon it into my mouth by sucking the moisture out of the wooden sticks. "More effort than it's worth, Mom!"
  • kinghondorp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0im partial to forksticks
  • Funguar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1People have two hands don't they? why not just use chopsticks in the right hand (left for you lefties) and a fork/spoon/spork in the other?
  • joshtj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Similarly designed chopsticks for the inept have been around for awhile.
  • babaduchi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1yeah and which fat ***** is going to use this ingenious piece of ***** without being laughed at?
  • javabeta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2chopsticks is the most convenient food gedget on earth
  • Valnar300, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Still waiting for the Sporkinife spork with serrated side to use as knife.
  • thechanz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1to me that chork is still near enough a fork, actually its worse than individual fork or chopstick by itself. First the chork doesn't look like it can stab much like a fork and its not as flexible as a chopstick because chopstick has physical movement.
  • Splitt3rxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I use forks, spoons, and sporks. they are FAR superior to tweezers.
  • Slacker1031, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Traditionally, chopsticks are never supposed to A) rest on/in your food. or B) Peirce your food. So this kinda defeats the purpose of chopsticks, leaving you with a pretty useless fork.

    Stylish, but completely impractical.
  • antechinus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This idea will not fly. It will still take too long to transfer food from the dish to mouth. Surely a small battery operated conveyor belt would be best for the American market.
    • Berkana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How about a funnel with tines so you can scoop up food, tilt it back and just let the food slide down the ol' gullet? In fact, I think I'll invent that right now: a cross between a fork and a funnel. I'll call it the "funnel." Oops. No, I'll call it the "fork!" ugh. Damn!
  • Masterbaiter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'll kill you with my Chorks.
  • fixedcoma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Funny! I was in this predicament last week when i thought of this idea. My friend didnt know how to use chop sticks, and i had to forks and i was making little chopstick motions with the forks. Strange coincidence!
  • PseudoWaters, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1HEY YOU! Stop playing with your Chorks!
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  • zmigliozzi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2dugg solely on the name, amazing.
  • reventlov, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"I'm American, I like to eat my meals in 2 minutes or less, and that's just not possible with chopsticks."

    You don't eat big macs with chopsticks or forks anyway, silly American. This is a retarded idea, and anyone who things chopsticks are difficult is either retarded or suffering from crippling arthritis... *****, I have carpal tunnel problems with both wrists and I can still use chopsticks "better than most Asians."

    (that quote is from two different Asian friends of mine)
    • justing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hello, sarcasm for the sake of humor.
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