Honestly for a lot of foods they’re really not a bad choice. They’re excellent for eating flavored chips when you dont want powder on your fingers, also grabbing things from jars
Teaching my Cheetos loving children how to use chopsticks has saved all my gaming controllers.
I use them for eating popcorn
But then you can’t shovel handfuls of popcorn in your mouth where a quarter misses your mouth and is found in the couch cushions 2 days later.
I’ve gotta find someone with a 3D printer locally who can make me those fingy chopsticks for cheetos. I’m tired of cleaning my keyboard everytime I wanna snacc.
Please do not eat food served via a 3d printed tool/plate/bowl/cup. A number of the materials that are used for 3d printing are toxic (cross contamination is likely even if the material has been changed), and the plastic can contain small abrasion which are impossible to sanitize.
and the plastic can contain small abrasion which are impossible to sanitize
This is a big reason why I don’t like plastic dishware, cups, etc even when they are made with food-safe materials.
I find it just fun to eat with them. In the end, it doesn’t matter as much how you are delivering food to your feeding hole.
Some fun chopstick facts: most chopsticks in the world (including China) are made in Georgia (the US state, not the country) because of the ready availability of cheap pine. One of the major reasons pine is so prevalent in Georgia (and in the US South in general) is slavery: cotton plantations in the pre-artificial fertilizer era tended to exhaust the soil after a few years, leaving pine trees as the only profitable crop that can be grown on much of the land.
Cotton is a destructive demanding crop. The post industrial era cotton farming has left swaths of land poisoned with arsenic and all sorts of nasties (chicken concentration camps are bad for arsenic too.)
(chicken concentration camps are bad for arsenic too.)
This is caused by roxarsone in chicken feed. I think they stopped using it several years ago, but I’d expect that this has caused lasting damage in some places.
I live in Hawaiʻi. We use chopsticks all the time. Itʻs just… what you do.
Whenever we get takeout and they give us forks instead of chopsticks, my wife and I refer to it as “getting haloeʻd” (for those who donʻt know, “haole” is a Hawaiian term for foreigner that tends be used exclusively for Caucasian people). Thereʻs a general assumption that most whites donʻt know how to use chopsticks. Related, I was once at a Japanese funeral, eating poke and sashimi with chopsticks, and this sweet lady comes up to me and says “you use those so well!” It felt like the white-person version of “youʻre so well-spoken!”
I stopped for dinner once at a Chinese restaurant in Mississippi run by people actually from China. I (white guy) used chopsticks and our server just stared at me wide-eyed for most of the meal. She said I was the first white person she had ever seen using them, and she’d been working there for years. That is Mississippi for you.
I didn’t have the heart to tell her I’d learned to use them eating at Japanese restaurants.
I’m passable with chopsticks, but I can’t think of any situation where I’d prefer them over other utensils.
Almost any pasta. Roasted or boiled veggies. Cheezits or similar, keeps the dust off. Pierogies, most snall dumplings really.
Who else goes through spoons quicker than any other utensils? In my household
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- Big spoons
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- Little spoons
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- Chop sticks
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- Knives
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- Forks
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- Butter knives
Long spoon. I love long spoon.
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3rd reason: because it’s fun.
