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TRONGS

Discover 13 unique and bizarre utensils that tried to join the trinity of Western cutlery, including the Trongs, Dine.Ink, Splayd, Fred, Chork, Fingerspoons, Fingerpicks, Popcorn Fork, and more!

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TRONGS

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  1. TRONGS These plastic finger-protectors are designed to keep your fingers clean when eating things like ribs, chicken wings, or…well, that’s pretty much it. But as the inventors point out in their admirable promo video, they could be useful for cooking, too, if you don’t like touching your raw meat.

  2. DINE INK Tired of eating lunch at your desk with nothing but your pen? Well, Dine Ink is here to turn that Bic into a bona fide fork, knife, or spoon! Also works for sticks that are exactly the same size and shape as ballpoint pens.

  3. THE SPLAYD The Splayd is the Australian name-brand sporf–a spork with a knife edge–that claims to have been “changing the way the world eats…single-handedly!” It was invented in the 1940s, and the company is still alive and selling Splayds, if you want to pick up a set.

  4. THE FRED The Australians seem to have a national genius for coming up with unnecessary combination utensils. The FRED, which stands for Field Ration Eating Device, combines a can opener, bottle opener, and tiny spoon, and is issued to Australian Defence Force soldiers. Soldiers being soldiers, and Australians being Australians, the FRED is also said to stand for “F**king Ridiculous Eating Device.”

  5. THE CHORK It seems to be a rule that new utensils have horrible names, and the chork is no exception. You can use the chork as a fork with a weird handle, “trainer” chopsticks attached at the top, or just normal chopsticks. Perfect for the dad in everyone’s life who still asks for a fork at Chinese restaurants.

  6. FINGERSPOONS Who among us has not thought, “I love my spoon, but I wish that instead of a handle, it was just attached to the end of my finger!”? The Fingerspoon is here to help.

  7. FINGERPICKS But everyone knows that Fingerspoons are a gateway utensil. Once you’ve tasted the freedom of eating yogurt with a spoon attached to your finger, you know you’re gonna want to let loose and eat hors d’oeuvres with a plastic pick attached to your finger. It’s like if toothpicks were invented by someone with cold fingertips!

  8. POPCORN FORK From experience, we can say that these are great on the pick-up, but tend to kind of stab you in the mouth on the eating phase of the operation. And if you lose the cap for the salt shaker that’s built into the handle, you end up with salt all over the place! We’re glad to see someone innovating in the field of popcorn consumption, though.

  9. Weird Eating Utensils, from Sporks to Trongs • The fork, the spoon, and the knife have formed the trinity of Western utensils for centuries, but new tools are always clamoring for a seat at the table. Most of these utensils, however, don’t make it into the big leagues. • Some, like the spork and its offshoots, seem like good ideas that somehow never quite took off–kind of like the Esperanto of eating. Others, however, seemed doomed from the get-go. Intrigued by Trongs–see the photo above–we found 13 unlucky utensils that are either still struggling in obscurity, or have already fallen off the face of the table, never to be seen again.

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