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Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
According to the info that used to in the Culters Guild Hall in Sheffield spoons are cutlery. Forks arent though
what is the best cutlery option and why?
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According to the info that used to in the Culters Guild Hall in Sheffield spoons are cutlery. Forks arent though
My mrs thinks I am nuts but I use a wooden bowl, wooden plate, wooden cup (for the most part), wooden spork, if I need to use a knife I will pull out the bushcraft one.
Ok, so the consensus is that I either buy ti, or whittle a spoon out of the branch of some enchanted tree!
What wood is best?
Im guessing beech..
What wood is best?
Im guessing beech..
On the original question, I suppose it's a matter of personal choice. Me, I don't like sporks. I tend to hate things that are supposed to do more than one thing, eg. a phone that is also a camera - but then I'm old and crotchety. 
I also don't like the clip-together sets of knife/fork/spoon - I find them awkward in the hand and they remind me of my days in the TA - which I loved - but the food was generally pizz-poor. For me, those little (generally) poorly made sets make everything taste worse than it should!
I bought a regular knife, fork and soup spoon from a kitchen shop, just made sure to pick the shortest one's I could find and that worked well for me. The one change I made was when I saw a French camper using an Opinel to eat so I replaced my knife with an Opinel No.6 which has the added advantage of being a good steak knife too. Just my personal choice.
I also don't like the clip-together sets of knife/fork/spoon - I find them awkward in the hand and they remind me of my days in the TA - which I loved - but the food was generally pizz-poor. For me, those little (generally) poorly made sets make everything taste worse than it should!
I bought a regular knife, fork and soup spoon from a kitchen shop, just made sure to pick the shortest one's I could find and that worked well for me. The one change I made was when I saw a French camper using an Opinel to eat so I replaced my knife with an Opinel No.6 which has the added advantage of being a good steak knife too. Just my personal choice.
Why on earth do you need to buy titanium ... I'll send you a stainless steel set.
Exactly, I have never stopped to think 'this fork is a little on the heavy side'. Is weight the only advantage to titanium?
I use a spoon from the draw, or a wooden on I carve... depends on how I feel.. to cut things I use a Svord....
I have Ti long handled sporks and spoons that i use for dehydrated meal pouches for hiking but otherwise I use the Guyot designs stuff. Either the large utensil set or the smaller microbites set.
https://www.guyotdesigns.com/utensils/
https://www.guyotdesigns.com/product-microbites/
Go Outdoors sell them cheap enough
https://www.guyotdesigns.com/utensils/
https://www.guyotdesigns.com/product-microbites/
Go Outdoors sell them cheap enough
I use a mixture of stuff depending on what I'm doing, so saying I tend to use a horn spoon most of the time, this is often coupled with an Opinel N0#8 and a fork. Have even been known to use the infamous and almost ubiquitous Spork. (Don't like Foons though!)
Horn Spoons
Did buy a mate a set of these reenactors cutlery, though he prefers to use a horn spoon too as opposed to the metal one and the set is a bit heavy. It does make every meal look like a medieval banquet though
It's down to choice and how you like to eat. We tend to eat well and I hate faffing about with pants cutlery. Though in so saying on winter expeditions when you had more time in a tent to kill I'd often eat with chopsticks as they padded the meal out a little longer, were easy to keep clean and are easily replaceable.
Did buy a mate a set of these reenactors cutlery, though he prefers to use a horn spoon too as opposed to the metal one and the set is a bit heavy. It does make every meal look like a medieval banquet though
It's down to choice and how you like to eat. We tend to eat well and I hate faffing about with pants cutlery. Though in so saying on winter expeditions when you had more time in a tent to kill I'd often eat with chopsticks as they padded the meal out a little longer, were easy to keep clean and are easily replaceable.
I wish,
Thing is, I don't like that.
Its beautifully made and absolute art but the knife looks hopeless for spreading butter.
We bought some fancy cutlery a while ago for the house and the knives are a similar shape, we use the forks but now end up choosing the fake bone handle things we have had for years.
