- Slim fork, wide handle.
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Damn right. I have 4 2s and 4 4s and it's a sad day when I've been too lazy to do the dishes and only have 4s left to use.
Clearly its the tines of 2 and the handle of 5. Anything else is madness.
My reasoning is quite simple. The tines on the No.2 fork are longer than the others. Long things are often associated with quality, status and refinement (Long fingers, long lashes, long legs etc.). The extra length suggest dexterity and precision.
Conversely the comparatively stubby tines of the No.1 fork would likely suit a toddler or an adult who isn't allowed near pointy things without supervision. Similarly the tines of the No.5 fork suggest that this utensil was born wanting to be a spoon but then was made into a fork at the last minute. This hypothesis is further supported by the rounded end of it's handle which would suit a spoon rather well.
Numbers 3 and 4 forks are usually, in my experience found in establishments where you help yourself to cutlery from big pots with grubby labels marked "SPOONS", "KNIVES" and "FORKS".
Now to the handles. Although the tines of the No.2 fork are pleasing, it then lets itself down with a handle that widens to the point of absurdity. Perhaps the thought was that it would help the extremely aged keep a firm grip while spooning tapioca past loose dentures.
So a cleaned up fork made from an amalgam of the refined tines of No. 2 fork and the pleasantly rounded handle of No. 5 are the only option for any adult with reasonable dexterity.
People who choose 4, are you doing okay? It's okay to seek help.
- The other handle shapes look awful
Only #2. Having a consistent set of cutlery is priceless.
- The handles on all the others except 5 are hideous but 5 has a really weird pointy bit
2
2
Handle of 5 + the fork of 3
The will of the people
I am so on board with you
I like none of them
2, and only 2.
Agreed, none of the others are balanced properly or have good flow. Number two is the only option.
Yep, number two is the best.
Give us a harder choice.
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.
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.
Fat bottom forks you make the rockin world go round...
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: 
Damn, that is the most perfect fork I've seen, wow.
Yeah I was gonna say 2's prong/head with 5's handle would probably be the best out of what's available in the OP image, but yours is... sublime, hah.
I was going to say "2 but with 5's handle and if you say 1 I am going to" but I couldn't think of a silly threat that would be absurd but in a funny way
... i am going to stick fork 1 in our friendship status, cuz its done.
I completely agree with you that all forks in the image suck. The part that you stick into the food shouldn't be rounded like that, it should be straight, so when you take it out of your mouth, it glides through your lips uniformly without some weird bumps. It should also have enough space in between the thingys, so you don't just cut your food in half when sticking it in. Then the handle, there's no reason for it not to be straight either. My hand doesn't have weird bumps like that, so the handle shouldn't either. It should also not be that flat, so it's nicer to grip.
Once I move out of my parents house, I'm definitely gonna buy forks like the one in your image. This is the best fork I've ever seen. Everything is straight without weird bump, it's not gonna cut my food in half and the handle is thick, so it's nice to grip. I don't understand how people who design things like this just don't think about making them nice to use. Do they stop themselves from thinking about how the thing they make would actually be used or what?
Yup. I've never really felt compelled to steal anything at all in my life, but I found some silverware like this at a restaurant one time and I don't think I had much of a choice.
Once I felt that ideal shape in my hand, with the perfect amount of heft distributed exactly as it should be, I knew I could never go back to using regular flat silverware.
The waiter caught me trying to clumsily hide the one set, and then he brought me a second one to take home as a gift. It was one of the nicest things, I'll never forget it.
Handle needs some kind of texture, or else may become slippery.
It'll ruin the finish, but you could just use some sand paper... maybe 80 or 100 grit?
Knurel that shit up my boy.
Knureling is heavily underated
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2 is such an obvious answer
You 2-people are insane. It's clearly fork number five.
All of these fail. This is like one of those pick the baddie out of the line up things, except all of these have done some shitty things. 3 is the closest I guess, but the handle fails hard.
2
2 No discussion, the weight, the smoothness, ist all about how they lay in the Hand.
1
2 would be the closest I'd consider to being ideal. The handle kinda looks like it sucks tho.
Ideal would be the head of 2 with the handle of 5.
5 because the handle isn’t a fucking nightmare and won’t be distracting to eating but also I have that exact set and only use the larger ones unless I am forced to use the smaller ones. I picked the set for these reasons.
Adding my voice to the 2 crowd.
2 for salads, 4 or 5 for everything else
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