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From left to right: dessert fork, relish fork, salad fork, dinner fork, cold cuts fork, serving fork, carving fork. In cutlery or kitchenware, a fork (from Latin: furca 'pitchfork') is a utensil, now usually made of metal, whose long handle terminates in a head that branches into several narrow and often slightly curved tines with which one can spear foods either to hold them to cut with a ...
Holding food in place with the fork tines-down, a single bite-sized piece is cut with the knife. The knife is then set down on the plate, the fork transferred from the left hand to the right hand, and the food is brought to the mouth for consumption. The fork is then transferred back to the left hand and the knife is picked up with the right.
A toasting fork is a long-handled fork used to brown and toast food such as bread, cheese, and apples by holding the pronged end in front of an open fire or other heat source. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It can also be used to toast marshmallows , broil hot dogs , and heat hot dog buns over campfires.
A wood-burning iron stove A stove at Holzwarth Ranch, Colorado. A kitchen stove, often called simply a stove or a cooker, is a kitchen appliance designed for the purpose of cooking food. Kitchen stoves rely on the application of direct heat for the cooking process and may also contain an oven, used for baking. "Cookstoves" (also called "cooking ...
The word "spork" was first referenced in the Century Dictionary in 1909, calling it a portmanteau of spoon and fork, describing it as a long, slender spoon that possesses fork-like tines. [3] The spork is easily one of the most identifiable and popularly used hybrid utensil in modern times, being used in prisons, schools, restaurants, and many ...
Table knives with bone or ivory handles; the maker's legend is stamped on the blade A formal place setting, including fish knife and fork An English dinner setting, c. 1750 A stainless steel dinner knife on a knife rest. A table knife is an item of cutlery with a single cutting edge, and a blunt end – part of a table setting. Table knives are ...
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.
The major items of cutlery in Western culture are the knife, fork and spoon. These three implements first appeared together on tables in Britain in the Georgian era . [ 4 ] In recent times, hybrid versions of cutlery have been made combining the functionality of different eating implements, including the spork ( sp oon / f ork ), spife ( sp oon ...