List of eating utensils

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This is a list of eating and serving utensils.

  • Balti, see Balti (food)
  • Chopsticks Typically, two long, thin sticks held between the fingers and used to tweeze up food.
  • Drinking straws
  • Foodwraps e.g. pita, tortillas, chapatis, etc
  • Fork A flat utensil, longer than wide, with several tines on the end used to stick into food, so it can be delivered to the mouth.
  • Hands and fingers.
  • Knife Any utensil with a sharp cutting edge, usually metal, used to cut food.
  • Knork A fork with dull knife edges used to safely cut food via pressure.
  • Nutcracker The most common form of this device is two slender rods of metal hooked together on a hinge; a nut is placed between and...as the name implies...cracked by pressure from levering the two together.
  • Spoon A flattened rod with a (usually shallow) bowl on the end, used to scoop things, especially liquids, to the mouth.
  • Spork (Also known as a splade) A combination spoon and fork.

See also