The Chork – Chopsticks and a Fork in one

Does this product full under the category of Spork? It’s hard to say but it sure looks like a fun piece of multipurpose cutlery.

The Chork is a clever mix of chopsticks and a fork into one piece of flatware. It’s a disposable flatware product made of food grade high impact polystyrene that I would hope to see in my takeout from my favorite Asian restaurant. I’m pretty good at eating with chopsticks but serving food from the container to my plate has always been a problem and that fork would be handy.

It can be used as a fork, as cheater connected squeezable chopsticks, and snapped apart for regular chopsticks. Available in 6, 12 & 24 packs.

The Chork Chopsticks and Fork in One

A Digital Spoon Scale by Admetior

The concept of this spoon makes so much sense to me. For baking especially this spoon makes measuring small amounts much easier. If you need 60 ounces then you take 6 ten ounces scoops. Just some basic math and you don’t need a full size scale to get the right weight. And don’t get me started on why American uses volume instead of weight in baking!

This cool digital spoon scale from Admetior measures in ounces (oz) and grams (g) both, up to 10-ounces per scoop. It will do the math for you up to 105 ounces using the Accumulative feature.
The scoop is detachable for easy cleaning.

It also has a “Hold and Tare” function. Pressing the Tare button will reset the displayed weight on the scale back to zero. The Tare button can also be used to measure multiple items in the same container. Simply add you first item, note the weight, press Tare and you are ready to weigh your next item. Good for mixing different spice in the spoon to one final weight.

Admetior Digital Spoon Scale

Pfaltzgraff Hoopla Frost Stainless Steel Flatware, 45-Piece Set, Service for 8, with Wire Caddy

I can’t pronounce Pfaltzgraff, I’ve read they were Pennsylvanian potters. Hoopla I can pronounce and understand though 🙂

The “Pfaltzgraff Hoopla Frost Stainless Steel Flatware, 45-Piece Set, Service for 8, with Wire Caddy” is exactly what it says and that’s a lot. Besides the wire cutlery caddy you get a 45-piece set consisting of a setting for 8 of dinner fork, salad fork, dinner knife, dinner spoon, and teaspoon. But wait there’s more, you get a 6-piece hostess set with 1 tablespoon, 1 pierced tablespoon, 1 cold meat fork, 1 sugar spoon, and 1 butter knife.

It is made of stainless steel that has a lifetime limited warranty. And remember folks, you throw them in a pile in the dishwasher and you gonna get rust spots no matter how dishwasher safe they might say. So be kind to your cutlery.

Pfaltzgraff Hoopla Frost Stainless Steel Flatware, 45-Piece Set, Service for 8, with Wire Caddy

Putting knives in the dishwasher – Don’t cut off a finger.

I dedicate this post to my wife who seems to suffer from this problem. Well actually I suffer from the problem and she’s the cause. When you put knives in the dishwasher, according Richard Herring, “Knives go down, for fork’s sake”. At the Metro UK Richard has a great article about the protagonist in his “novel” that dies by tripping over in the kitchen and landing on a large kitchen knife that is in the cutlery section of the dishwasher, sticking point upwards. (It’s not true but still scary). Cutlery can kill it seems. Fatal flatware if you will.

Before reading that, you might want to check out our earlier post on avoiding rust on cutlery in your dishwasher.

Read more: The Metro.co.uk