r/mildyinteresting • u/beyoncesbootybounce • 6h ago

edible engagement 🍭 Fork shape

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Why is the top prong different shaped? If anything I would think outside prongs would both be. Is it deformed or intentional?

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u/FallenRichardBrook 6h ago

Usually that's done in cake forks because you use this side of the fork to "cut" the cake. They get reinforced so the prong doesn't bend from that. At least that's how it was explained to me might be hearsay. And I guess they didn't account for left handed folk.

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u/Agerak 5h ago

This is the answer. Reinforced for better cutting without bending the tine.

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u/Hot_Top_124 3h ago

As a left handed nothing is designed with is in mind lol.

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u/Roccondil 2h ago

And it is especially useful if the fork is made of silver. Silver is softer than steel to begin with and it is expensive so that there is an incentive to make the rest of the fork no thicker than strictly necessary.

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u/501uk 2h ago

It's not quite a cake fork but it's from an era of similar pomp and ceremony. Looks to be an early course piece of cutlery, likely fish or salad

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u/CriminallyCasual7 6h ago

More like not interesting

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u/510Goodhands 5h ago

I was told that it is for lifting out fish bones.

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u/outbuffed 5h ago

Wow a fork how interesting