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A variety of eating utensils have been used by people to aid eating when dining. Most societies traditionally use bowls or dishes to contain food to be eaten, but while some use their hands to deliver this food to their mouths, others have developed specific tools for the purpose.
This utensil typically features a thin edge to assist with slicing, and a large face, to hold the slice whilst transferring to a plate, bowl or other container. Cheese cutter: Designed to cut soft, sticky cheeses (moist and oily). The cutting edge of cheese cutters are typically a fine gauge stainless steel or aluminium wire. Cheese knife
Kitchen utensils in bronze discovered in Pompeii. Illustration by Hercule Catenacci in 1864. Benjamin Thompson noted at the start of the 19th century that kitchen utensils were commonly made of copper, with various efforts made to prevent the copper from reacting with food (particularly its acidic contents) at the temperatures used for cooking, including tinning, enamelling, and varnishing.
In India, chapati flatbread is used as a utensil to consume sambar and dal. [7] In North and Central America, the tortilla is used as a utensil to scoop various foods such as salsa and bean dips. [8] Foods such as crackers, corn and tortilla chips, crudités, bread and cheese sticks can also be used as edible utensils. [9] [10] [11]
Dessert spoon — intermediate in size between a teaspoon and a tablespoon, used in eating dessert and sometimes soup or cereals; Egg spoon — for eating soft boiled eggs; with a shorter handle and bowl than a teaspoon, and a bowl broadly round across the end, rather than pointed, intended to enable the user to scrape soft-boiled egg out of ...
Kitchenware refers to the tools, utensils, appliances, dishes, and cookware used in food preparation and the serving of food. [1] [2] Kitchenware can also be used to hold or store food before or after preparation. [3] [4]
Sporf: A utensil combining characteristics of a spoon, a fork and a knife; Spork: A utensil combining characteristics of a spoon and a fork. Sucket fork: A utensil with tines at one end of the stem and a spoon at the other. It was used to eat food that would otherwise be messy to eat such as items preserved in syrup.
The utensils were also called Nelson knives. The combination allowed them to be able to use a single utensil to cut and eat their food. [51] Knorks are still in use to this day, said by many who suffer from physical disabilities to be a very helpful tool for eating a meal. [52] [53] For these reasons, it is said to be an important medical ...