Best Ramen Fork? Best Ramen Spoon? Scoon?

So much confusion here. Is the best choice for eating ramen chopsticks and a spoon? Or is it a fork? Or is it a spork? Or a Scoon?

Ramen-Fork-Spoon-Stainless-Steel-Museum-of-Modern-Art

Your first choice is this wonderful piece of cutlery that I would classify as a Foon from the Museum of Modern Art. The Ramen Fork/Spoon or Sugakiya spork is made from stainless steel and will handle all your Ramen eating needs. Made of dish-washer safe stainless steel it is 7 3/4″ long x 2″ wide x 1 1/2″ diameter.

MoMA Ramen Fork+Spoon available from Amazon

Scoon

Your second choice is the “Scoon” which is available at most Asian product Dollar stores. It’s plastic, it has holes in it to act as a strainer. It’s cheap. It’s flimsy. It’s cute. We can’t seem to find a reliable source online to order it, sorry.

You decide. The Flatware Decision is yours.

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Alessi Nuovo Milano Cutlery

Alessi Nuovo Milano Cutlery

From Wikipedia: “Ettore Sottsass (Innsbruck, Austria 14 September 1917 – Milan, Italy 31 December 2007) was a 20th century Italian architect, noted for also designing furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting, home and office wares, as well as numerous buildings and interiors — often defined by bold colours.”

Why am I telling you this? Because the Alessi Nuovo Milano Cutlery pictured above was designed by Ettore Sottsass. This cutlery has history and class. So make sure you have your story and trivia about Ettore ready when you lay this flatware out on the table.

This 24 piece set is made of dishwasher safe 18/10 stainless steel. It has a simplified elegance that many other have since copied. Each place setting includes a fork, knife, tablespoon and teaspoon.

Alessi Nuovo Milano Cutlery from Amazon

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Halloween Skull Cutlery

Halloween Skull Cutlery

Every year we try to find some new cutlery for Halloween and this year’s find is a real treat. This is some scary flatware for the Halloween dining room table.

Sadly it has the longest and most unwieldly name: “OIULO Pattern Matte Silverware Set for 8, 40-Piece Square Handle Matte Black Flatware set,Unique Pattern Design, Satin Finish Cutlery for 8 ,Utensils for Kitchens Dishwasher Safe”. So it’s a good thing we have the link to it below for you.

This 40 piece silverware set includes 8 dinner spoons, 8 dinner forks ,8 dinner knifes, 8 salad dessert forks , and 8 teaspoons. Made of 18/0 stainless steel with a high quality titanium black coating that we wouldn’t recommend for the dishwasher lest you lose those cool skulls!

Halloween Skull Cutlery available on Amazon

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The Pastry fork, Pie fork or Cake fork

We were watching a movie the other day (don’t ask which one) and a character brought in a plate and said the following line: “It’s Rugelach served with a cake fork.” Of course we jumped at the words “cake fork”, and that led to a deep dive research into what is a “cake fork”? This was new flatware to us. Unknown cutlery as it were.

According to Wikipedia: A pastry fork, pie fork or cake fork is a fork designed for eating pastries and other desserts from a plate. The fork has three or four tines. The three-tine fork has a larger, flattened and beveled tine on the side while the four-tine fork has the first and second tine connected or bridged together and beveled.

So one of those tines is different, why? Here’s the rub: It therefore the left side widened to be used like a knife to cut the food when pressed down on the plate. Left-handed pastry forks have the right side widened instead.

So it’s a right or left handed fork with a special edge for cutting cake and that little notch in it for who knows why?

Let us tell you why. It’s not just used for cake and pasties. It’s used for fish and meat to as the notch can be used to help remove pieces of skin and delicate bones from your meal. Wow, this is getting confusing but interesting.

So you want to buy a pastry/cake/pie/meat/fish fork? Pictured above is the Fortessa Lucca Faceted Appetizer/Cake Fork. It’s made of dishwasher safe 18/10 stainless steel and sold in a pack of twelve. Look close in the photo, it’s got the notch!

Buy the Fortessa Lucca Faceted Appetizer/Cake Fork from Amazon

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