Regular cake? A fork.
Ice cream cake? Spoon.
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You already know where I'm going with this, time to upgrade your woodwear homie!
lol
My sister has some blank utensil things (wood blocks meant to be made into spoons and forks). Imma send her this and tell her to make it 🤣
I call it the Kitchen Weapon, and yes the cross section is just press fit, easy to disassemble for actual use believe it or not.
Feel free to copy the design, I just made it on a whim to hang over the kitchen sink.
I don't think I've ever eaten cake with a spoon before, sooo... I'm gonna go fork, myself.
Save the spoon for your significant other.
I'm not above using whatever is available, but the correct answer is fork.
Who the fuck eats cake with a spoon??
You sound like a lovely person open to other cultures and perspectives.
I don’t care what someone does, but if I’m serving cake, it’s coming with a fork. Just like if I’m serving soup, it’s coming with a spoon.
I half expected ‘Just like if I’m serving soup, it’s coming with a fork. I just hate spoons’
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Yes. Eating it with a knife is just too dangerous and uncomfortable.
You're just skipping over the obvious choice of chopsticks, I see.
*holds up spork*
Fork.
Depends on the cake. For most cake, either will do, but I prefer a fork. For tres leches ice cream cake, or similar cakes, spoon.
A little spoon ("tea spoon")
I don't have a preference, but the rest of my family has very strong preferences. My mom was convinced for the longest time that I was eating with the "wrong" one (I can't remember what the "right" one is for her), so she'd always get me the "wrong" one, which is also what my sister likes. I just went along because I genuinely don't care. Then my mom got very upset one day when I was using the "right" one, cause she was insistent that I always liked the other one. Nah, I just like cake.
Here in Denmark, it's almost unheard of to use anything but a teaspoon, but personally I prefer a fork.
A small fork is generally considered the "correct" cutlery for cake in Denmark.
Obviously a teaspoon serves the purpose just as well, and those are standard to have.
And we are not a pretentious people, so many don't even have the forks. Since they are pretty useless for anything else. So the small forks are basically superfluous.
A small fork is generally considered the "correct" cutlery for cake in Denmark
I must have missed that memo, but I completely agree. It's just the best tool for the job.
Obviously a teaspoon serves the purpose just as well
No they don't.
And we are not a pretentious people
Neither am I. My preference is purely practical.
many don't even have the forks
That's fair. I only have them because I got some as a cheap "here, have this too" Christmas gift a couple years ago.
Before that, I had no idea how much better they are for the purpose than tea spoons.
Since they are pretty useless for anything else
Mostly true, but you're allowed to own specialized cutlery, just like you're allowed to own kitchen appliances that do a specific thing better than others that do more things.
So the small forks are basically ~~superfluous.~~ not strictly necessary, but DEFINITELY useful
Fixed it for you.
I must have missed that memo
Maybe you are not old enough, such things used to be way more important half a century ago.
It depends on texture. Some cakes are way to soft to eat them with fork.
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Spork! Obviously!
Neither. What’s wrong your fingers, not bourgeois enough for you?
For starters, we don't know what and whose orifices those have been in.
Well I do, they’re my fingers. And I washed them.
I’m not taking the gamble of using other peoples fingers.
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chopsticks.
A fork works better for most cakes, but it may depend on the exact consistency.
I don't. Preferences set one up for disappointment. I simply use what is offered or whichever has more clean.
Forks for ice cream fresh from the freezer though, they break into it better
Butter knife and fingers in casual situations, fork in semi- and formal situations.
Spoon, so I can completely clean my plate. Also prevents crumbs from falling.
Fork. I hate when the spoon can’t be easily cleaned by the mouth which tends to be the case when it comes to cake. Yuck
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I almost never use a fork for anything, spoon for sure. 95% of foods I eat with spoon, chopsticks, or hand.
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I use a mini-fork (dessert fork?)
A fork. The spoon is for kids and neanderthals.
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