Justify the existence of anything other than the three in the dinner spoon, dinner fork, dinner knife, the butter knife...

Justify the existence of anything other than the three in the dinner spoon, dinner fork, dinner knife, the butter knife, the soda spoon and the serving spoon.

I would add the tea spoon to that list

cake fork because i like to be fancy when i eat cake

All you need is knife, serrated knife, fork, tablespoon and teaspoon.

Big stuff for cooking and serving should be considered separately.

I find a normal dinner spoon fits in my mugs well, though the soda spoon works as well, the shorter handle is nice. So I'll give you that.

Actually useful silverware
>Dinner Knife
>Dinner Fork
>Dinner Spoon
>Teaspoon
>Soda Spoon
>Serving Spoon
>Butter Knife
With the everything except the dinner set being more specialist tools and had in far smaller quantity compared to being able to produce a set for every guest your house can accommodate simultaneously plus extra just in case. Teaspoons too if you frequently have hot drinks.

Do you find that a butter knife has any advantages over a dinner knife for applying butter?

>serrated knife
Do you mean like a steak knife?

Really there isn’t one but considering the set you posted includes a sugar spoon with a fancy clamshell type design, it’s clear that you posted a fancy dinner party silverware set.

Yeah, sure.

It's shape lends itself well to spreading and let's butter and other spreads cleanly come off it while the shape of table knives are less optimized and better likes to get stuck to the serrated sections

Sugar spoon looks sick for dazzling sugar on shit, never seen one b4

What don'r you understand about a serving spoon? It's bigger and has a larger area for people to plate things.

Ever tried using the back edge of the table knife? That's what I do, since it's not usually curved.

I have an agenda here, since I like to minimise the amount of things I keep in the kitchen.

Many of these utensils were made for a long multi course banquet so that you would have separate ones for each course or dish so that you wouldn't carry over flavors from one food to another.

Do you need them? No you can get by with a fork, knife, and spoon. or a spork and a knife. or a set of chopsticks it's really depending on what types of food you wanna eat.

>you wouldn't carry over flavors from one food to another
The fuck? Can you not just clean your utensils with your mouth or wiping it off on a napkin?

I only have a single butterknife. It goes next to my toaster with the butter.

These different kinds of cutlery were created by the elite during the 20th century as a way to distinguish themselves from the new rich. They're just a meme and totally redundant.

God, I hate the rich.
They basically live in another plane of existence from us normalfags.

Is becoming a prissy stuckup douche a symptom of wealth or something?

No love for soup spoon?

Yeah, fair enough. My kitchen is minuscule.

I think it's more about class than wealth. I make about £100k and I'm the guy with the tiny kitchen:

Just seems like a needlessly niche version of the dinner spoon

No, not really. It's more wide and rounded and can hold more soup on it. It's obviously not "necessary", but it's definitely nice when eating soup.

I don't often drink soup, but when I do, I use a ladle.

>I use a ladle
Why don't you just use a dinner spoon?

What if I eat soup with a serving spoon

Serving spoons are a lot bigger than regular soup spoons.

Where's the soda fork?

Joking, I put it in a pint glass and drink it out of that.

I hope you have your fork licenses...

I usually just drink mine out of a mug. Pretty cozy on a cold day.

Now I'm fucking craving some hot butternut squash soup or split pea soup.

Yeah, I should get a massive mug.

>no fish spoon
Sorry, I didn't realize this was a board for barbarians.

What the fuck is a soda spoon?

A spoon you use to drink your soda, duh.

>not drinking your soda with soda spoon

Americans and their lack of culture never cease to amaze me.

>no egg grappler

Heathens.

>have a bunch of useless, space wasting utensils
>call it "culture"

>drinks soda with a spoon
>calls it sophisticated and marks it up as a victory in the name of culture
You're still a fatass, and fatasses are a detriment to society.

>drinks soda with a spoon
Uhh, I think you missed something :)

I think he meant these. Though I've only ever seen them for Icees, not for sodas.

Ha, you definitely missed something.

Google 'soda spoon', and realise that nobody in this thread seriously suggested anyone spoon soda into their mouths.

>An iced tea spoon, also called a soda spoon, is a thin spoon with a very long handle.[1] It is used primarily in the United States, for stirring sugar or other sweeteners into iced tea, which is traditionally served in a tall glass. This is why the spoon has a very long handle.

So it's an American thing, and you so astutely observed the lack of culture in America for not using them?

No, I just jumped in to point out that you seemed to be under the impression people were literally being advocated to drink soda with a spoon.

I think it was this post that did it:

I'd also like to point out that the lager has caused me to forget how to use the word 'advocate'.

Forgot cheese knife, aka one of the biggest memes I have ever seen.

I think spoons are pretty good.

>a cheese knife is a meme
What’s it like being terminally retarded?

I got my trusty victorinox knives that I buy from Migros every ten years. Does a good work for meats, cheeses, bread and cardboard boxes. I don't need a fancy knife.
Though that one model with the alps, with names of the peaks and altitudes makes a great gift oversees.

>nobody in this thread seriously suggested anyone spoon soda into their mouths
Obviously, that's not where you spoon it

Whoopsie.

Yes
Because nothing is worse than getting a meat dish where you need to cut it
And your butter knife is completely blunt.

Just use the serrated edge of your steak knife for your steak, and the spine of the same for your butter.

Fuck, didn't think of this.

All you need is a pair of chopsticks and a fucking spoon you wasteful cunt.

You're welcome.

Utensil type is used to control portion size while eating. A bite of one thing might be better when larger than another.