2, and only 2.
Dont you love when you stick your fork into a potato and end up cutting the fucker in half? Thats what these wide tines do.
Looks like 4 has wider tines… and a couple others.
Has a stupid handle
Stupid but comfy. ☺️
Yep, number two is the best.
Give us a harder choice.
I was like this, then I saw the handle. That being said its still 2 but its very close and it could be better still like the 1 or 5 handle
2 is definitely the best-machined. Quality manufacturing right there.
5 looks well made too. I like a slightly sporked fork though.
Agreed, none of the others are balanced properly or have good flow. Number two is the only option.
It is clear to me that the only explanation for your preference is nostalgia.
I don’t understand. I think the handle would work best for my hands, and the prongs are just the right size for me.
Those prongs are fine. The handle, though, it’s like having a huge counterweight on the back of the utensil. I can imagine liking it if it’s always been that way or if you have big hands. Otherwise, handle number 5 is the clear improvement - no sharp edges, properly balanced, not shaped like a wedge. Could hold that fork for days.
I would also accept 2 with 4’s handle. ☺️
Yeah, 2 tines and 4 handle is a pretty good fork, I’ll admit. I just worry about the concave shape of the top side of the handle causing the edges to dig into my fingers with long-term use.
Those all suck, this is the perfect fork.
This is the only correct answer
God damn that fork better chill 🥵
That’s actually a pretty nice fork.
I like everything about that fork except that thin part before the top.
I don’t want that touching my mouth… why am I like this?
Handle of 5 + the fork of 3
I am so on board with you
The will of the people
Aesthetics - #5 is the obvious choice Handling/ grip comfort - #5 wins again Scooping/horizontal food retention - #5 with its slight bowl-shaped head Tine shape - #2 wins out for sheer uniformity
Final answer
Exactly
It’s 2 and it ain’t even close
Wasn’t even surprised when I read this after eliminating 1, 5, 4, and 3.
Noooo booty too big
Imagine needing a flared end to keep the utensil from slipping out of your hamfisted mitts. #1 all day
Yea the other guys hate sparring with me because my hands are huge. It’s my cross to bare.
But uh… 1’s tines are too tiny and squared off, so no. That ain’t gonna work on huge chunks of meat.
Touche about the pointed tines, I hadn’t noticed that.
It’s not even about that, it has the longest tines by far. The others are fine dessert forks, but I need that long tine action for an entree baby!
A flared handle helps to distribute the load.
With as many people saying 2 as there are, maybe you should rethink your scoring system.
None of these. 2 has the best tines, but the handle sucks. These look like forks you’d find in a diner. Rounded outer tines is a crime against humanity. Did you maybe want a spork instead? 😡
Agreed. 2 is the clear winner of this heat, despite the bad handle. 5 has the best handle of the bunch, but all these were stamped from thin, stainless sheet steel, rather than forged from thicker plate. All of their handles are lousy.
5 has a better finish than the rest, but the tines are a train wreck.
Here is the perfect fork:
Round handles don’t let me know the rotation so hard pass from me.
Handle needs some kind of texture, or else may become slippery.
Knurel that shit up my boy.
Knureling is heavily underated
Personally I don’t like that handle either. Needs to be thicker.
That’s how they are when first harvested from the fork-bush. Have to carefully separate the layers for each individual fork.
Allow me to introduce you to my favorite fork. I feel like yours would rotate in the hand while applying downward cutting force.
Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark…
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It’s not a contest. Look at the contouring, elegant. Look at the polish, shining as bright as Versailles. The tong length has the perfection of a Swiss watch.
Then the functionality- the flared handle provides the user with the comfort usually reserved for oil barons in hospice. The longer tongs serve as an homage to the engineers who brought humanity to the moon.
Every other fork is merely a blight on the earth in comparison to this Adonis of cutlerian perfection.
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I think 2 has the best mix of uniformity and utility.
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2.The crazies here who don’t think that’s the best head by so much that the handle doesn’t matter, they scare me. No amount of bad handle can make up for how much I hate the rest of them
Exactly, I discounted it originally because the handle was the first thing I saw, but then I looked at the tines and it was no contest.
2 clearly
You don’t have to be neurodivergent to have an opinion about fork shapes. Also 2 is the best.
The present is now, old fella
Where the hell did the “L” come from???
Or the A or the Y or the D
It’s not a combination of the names, it’s wordplay: “splayd” => “splay” (like splayed tines, to cover “fork”) + “spade” (a shovel, sharper than a spoon, which covers “knife” and “spoon”)
yea it should be KNOOORK
Although if I really have to choose, it’ll be 2, but I’ll silently complain he whole time
Worst 5 fork designs in this meme. Thanks for nothing
Handle of 5, prongs of 3.
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