Someone had to ask the questions that matter.
Yes. Eating it with a knife is just too dangerous and uncomfortable.
You’re just skipping over the obvious choice of chopsticks, I see.
Regular cake? A fork.
Ice cream cake? Spoon.
You already know where I’m going with this, time to upgrade your woodwear homie!
Sporknife.
Sporfe
Hey, when you see cake, come prepared…
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.
chopsticks.
A fork. The spoon is for kids and neanderthals.
Is there ice cream on it or in it? Spoon. Otherwise, fork.
This.
Who the fuck eats cake with a spoon??
Why the fuck would you use fork for a cake? Do you also use a knife??
For serving, yeah. A cake knife. Do you cut the cake with a spoon?
Hey fuck you buddy
With a spoon or with a fork?
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’
Perfect joke opportunity ruined. Curse you, Perry the Platypus!
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.
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.
I’m not above using whatever is available, but the correct answer is fork.
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.Seems to me their only purpose is etiquette, and most Danes don’t really appreciate that when it has no purpose than the etiquette itself.
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 usefulFixed 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.
Yeah, half a century ago, I was minus seven years old 🤷🏻
I suppose you mean “minus” instead of minutes.
I suspected something of that sort. Back then using teaspoons was considered somewhat casual.
And now you find the old ways kind of neat. Yes the old cake fork has a slight advantage in that it can be used as a fork, and it typically has an edge to “cut” if it’s a proper one. But in reality those “advantages” don’t really matter, at least not for most people.
A cake can be cut with a teaspoon just as well, and for most cakes the fork function doesn’t really work, and in my experience the fork is used as a spoon anyway.But hey, have fun. Do what you like. 😀
I suppose you mean “minus” instead of minutes
Yeah, that was an autocorrect error lol
those “advantages” don’t really matter, at least not for most people.
Whether they agree with me on the relative merits of dessert forks and tea spoons, I guarantee that most people prefer to use whichever one they find most convenient.
Deciding that it doesn’t matter AT ALL to most people just because you seemingly consider using the slightly better option to be elitist compared to using an inferior (at the specific use) but more versatile utensil os a very weird take 😄
A cake can be cut with a teaspoon just as well
Nope. That’s categorically untrue.
Some might prefer a teaspoon based on other properties, but the flatter profile of the fork makes it moderately better at cutting and infinitely better at stabbing your cake like a pitchfork gathering hay.
for most cakes the fork function doesn’t really work
Again, that’s categorically untrue. More fluid-adjacent cakes might benefit from the scooping capabilities more than the stabbing and superior cutting abilities of the fork, but they’re by far the minority rather than the majority.
But hey, have fun. Do what you like
Weird thing to say after spending so much time and effort telling me how doing what I like is wrong and unpopular, but thanks for the permission, I guess 🤷🏻😄
Weird thing to say after spending so much time and effort telling me how doing what I like is wrong and unpopular,
I have no idea what your problem is? I never claimed in any way it is wrong, I also showed that it used to be way more popular than it is today.
I just state the reasons I think it kind of fell out of fashion.but thanks for the permission, I guess
It is not a permission, that wouldn’t make any sense whatsoever. On the contrary it’s an acknowledgement of you not just following the mainstream but doing what you like.
I have no idea why you would be butthurt about any of this?
I moved to Denmark a few years ago, and have been picking up a line of cutlery whenever I see stuff I need in red cross stores. I have small tea spoons, big tea spoons, and one tiny cake fork.
I prefer the smaller tea spoons not only for ice cream cake, but anything served with ice cream. So typically that’s also a lot of pies. The fork is better for dry crumbly cakes, but the spoons are better for creamy cakes. I wouldn’t eat a tiramisu with a fork if I have a spoon available.
The bigger tea spoons I mostly only use for yogurt and stuff like that.
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It depends on cake’s texture. Some cakes are way to soft to eat them with fork.
An ice-cream cake is better eaten with a spoon, for example.
The noble cake fork: “Am I a joke to you?”
I don’t normally eat cake, but when I do it is a fork. If it were pie I would do a fork for apple, but a spoon for blackberry and cherry. If someone offered me a pie that wasn’t blackberry or cherry I would re-evaluate my friendship with them.
Edit to add: My friends wouldn’t serve me cake that isn’t moist enough to cling to a fork. There are some assumptions that might be specific to my particular friend group. If your friend group delivers you dry cake you might need better friends.
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
