/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16983267
Uses your fine motor skills in the hopes to retain said skills by having the brain be rewarded with food.

Because close to 1/4th of the people on earth still use them

>>16983267
I'm going to assume youre an American like me.
it's something called culture, fucking weird and outlandish if you ask me.

>>16983267
these are even better than tongs for flipping individual slices of bacon and also for mixing eggs
also better for eating noodles out of soup

A fork compromises the integrity of the food by punctuating its surface, allowing juices to drip out and nutrients to be destroyed. The undesirable metalic matter of the utensil also mixes with the food.

Chopsticks enable the flavour and nutritional profiles of the food to remain intact, thus granting the consumer the most pure eating experience. The chopsticks facilitate a direct pathway of food to mouth. I don't need to suck on a metal object or eat shredded portions of food.

>>16983372
This is accurate in every facet except eating rice.
Eating rice with chopstickd is legit the dumbest thing that is accepted by Japs, Koreans, Chinesr and chinese descendant countries
Lemme just shovel this rice in my mouth like its soup or have to play with it to turn it into a ball, retards just use a spoon

Honestly it's just easier to use once you get used to it. And not having to deal with the taste of metal is nice. Wood utensils are superior in general imo.

>>16983381

Koreans actually use a spoon to eat rice instead of chopsticks.

>>16983267
They’re kind of more natural, because it’s like long fingers.

>>16983617
This.

>>16983267
>look at me I'm a special boy I can use these primitive sticks of woods that backwards chinks use because they're retarded I'm a weeb and a faggot bask in how refined I am are girls impressed yet

it hurts my fingers to use them, feels so unnatural

>>16983372
>A fork compromises the integrity of the food by punctuating its surface, allowing juices to drip out and nutrients to be destroyed.
meanwhile chopstick meat is pre cut, maximizing surface area for juices to drip out

stainless doesnt leech metallic taste into food, and koreans eat with metallic chopsticks

>forks and spoons totally taste like metal bro
where the fuck are you gooks buying your forks and spoons? the dollar store? this is the dumbest cope I see regularly.

It's fun. I use them whenever I make some Asian style good at home. Rice dishes I will just eat with a fork or spoon.

>>16983820
Maybe it's less the taste and more the sensation of metal in your mouth.

>>16983267
I used them so often in my life, it´s seems just naturaly to me to use them for some specific foods.

>>16983847
buy food grade stuff, not your own sweatshop dodgy manufacturing that is meant for gullible laowai

Good for eating foods with large individual pieces, or popcorn/chips without getting your fingers dirty. Also good for things you don't want to damage before placing in your mouth, like something fried with a crispy coating.
Pretty shit for everything else.

>>16983381
I prefer chopsticks over a spoon for rice. Fite me.

>>16983303
yeah, you cant grab with a fork/spoon.
also really handy for dipping things into sauce

>>16983277
Why do people do this? Because... they just DO okay?

>when the metal or plastic chopsticks won't grip the noodles

>>16983267
Forks are terrible for a lot of noodle dishes like Pho. Twisting a fork in a circle is unnatural

>>16983267
best way to eat Cheetos, a fork will crack them and a spoon won't be able to pick them up

>>16983278

>>16983267
>Why do people still use these?
Because AZNs are fucking stubborn.

>>16986308
Because what are you gonna do? Run up to a undocumented chinaman and yell at him about his culture?

>>16983673
It means your finger muscles are weak and need to be trained

If it works dont fix it or change it or update it
Retard

Enlightened chopsticks user
>elegant
>takes finesse and mindfulness to use
>carefully pick up food items and bring them to your mouth

Barbarian fork caveman
>just fucking stab your food like a savage
>or scoop and shovel food into your mouth like a pig

>>16983601
nip understanding of western cuisine is always so cute
it's like they're reading a fantasy novel and think "oh yeah this is totally how they do it, it looks just like my mental image of what they do in the books"

>>16983601
Hahaha potatoes and pasta and rice

>>16983267
>op has never eaten soup with chopsticks
are you even trying bro?

>>16987499
It's the same for honky understanding of Superior Japanese Cuisine, my guy and abominations like the California roll.

Because fuck you

I am Japanese.

>>16983614
Because Koreans somehow managed to be the most logical and practical of all Asians
>Yeah the characters in our alphabet are shaped like your mouth when it's making that character's sound
>And our chopsticks are steel instead of wood
>A knife at the table? Nah nigga we just use scissors

>>16983267
because the food is prepared with chopsticks in mind. you could use a fork, but it's literally two fucking sticks, you can't master two sticks?

>>16983381
in japan they eat short grain rice, not like the long grain indians and pakisanis eat. short grain rice is more clumpy, easier to eat with chopsticks

Chopsticks are objectively better than a fork for dishes like sauerkraut or other vegetable salads.

Japanese rice

>>16983267
Good for eating greasy or powdery snacks without getting your fingers dirty. I use them for buttery popcorn at home so I don't get my remotes oily.

>>16983267
They are cheaper and easier to manufacture tan forks.

>>16983267

>>16988224
>he's never used a metal spoon from india at an indian restaurant

>>16988297
Indians steal them

>>16990069
basterd son of bich

>>16983820
anon most silverware (well, the non-silver kind) has a taste to it. Use plasticware if you want it to impart no flavor to your food.

>>16983267
eating salad with a fork is fucking stupid. fucking jabbing at it as hard as you can hoping to spear it but recognizing that what you're going for probably won't work out and you're just hoping for whatever result to be good. Like a fucking lunatic. I can't believe people eat salad with a fork, they look so fucking stupid. Like monkeys dressing up and smearing lipstick on their face and pretending to be civilized.

Salad is literally made to be eaten with chopsticks and fucking losers he poke and stab at flat lettuce and fucking tomatoes that roll away should be taken into the street and shot like the filthy fucking dogs that they are.

>>16983267
>>16983267
think of them as finer tongs

>>16983372
>The undesirable metalic matter of the utensil also mixes with the food.
Okay nigger.
Tell us when you're ready to step out of the neolithic.

Do you hold the top stick with your thumb and index finger or thumb, index and middle????? I never get it right :(((((((

>>16990283
Thumb, index and middle like a pencil. The bottom one is pressed against the bottom of your index finger and the side of your fourth finger by the bottom of your thumb.

>>16987986
I don't belive you, but I also don't belive me.
I'd like to ask you a question if you can prove your Japanese.

>>16983278
I first saw chopsticks on American TV. Seems Americans always eat their Chinese with chopsticks. We don’t do that in Bongland

>>16983267
Because just like how cars would be absolutely useless without roads, our utensils would be useless without the way we serve our food on our plate. Cultures that use chopsticks prepare and serve their food in such a way that it's intended to be eaten by chopsticks, just like how in the west food is served with the intention to be eaten with a knife and fork

zero reason to use them other than to be a weeb. food does not taste any different when eaten with the weeb sticks.

>>16983271
>Uses your fine motor skills in the hopes to retain said skills by having the brain be rewarded with food.
That's not entirely honest argument though, because in the west even the smallest child can easily use chopsticks with no issue at all, it takes no real skills to use two sticks to eat regardless of what stick eaters believe

>>16990461
k

>>16987517
pasta?

>>16983267
They're fun to use.
I used to use them every day back in high school, now I just use them intermittently.

Chopsticks allow me to enjoy Cheetos without getting dust on my fingers.

>>16990512
based never even tried non-weeb Chads

>>16983267
Kids love them. It's a fun way to introduce them to cognitive dissonance.

I use a fork at the sushi place to make the bug people seethe

>>16987986
What's that one big one?

>>16983267
You don't have to mash your food together when you use them. You can pick out any piece of food without disturbing the rest; it's elegant. You might look at two stocks and think it's "primitive," but how is a pointy piece of metal any better? Plus, chop sticks aren't metal annoyingly dragging on your teeth and/or leeching taste into the food. Let's see, what else... they're fun to use and the disposable versions of them are perfectly functional, unlike cutlery.

>>16990591
Honestly, the bigger question is why do we use forks and knives? The answer is LITERALLY only because Asians cut their proteins before serving while us wypipo cut ours at the table. In every European dish where you don't have to cut your food, chopsticks are also superior.

>>16990591
>You don't have to mash your food together when you use them.
Except no one does that.

>>16990111
What is this post? It's a fork not a fucking baseball bat.

>>16990512
self-reported reddit threads aren't real facts, they're I Fucking Love Science, big difference

>>16983372
GTFO with your Oriental fengshui

>>16990644
Unavoidable. If you stab a piece of food, you smoosh it into whatever's underneath and next to it. If you scoop, you sure as hell ain't scooping that one morsel perfectly.

>>16983267
I use them because it lets me larp as an anime

>>16983278
kys faggot

>>16983372
Puncturing a hole in the food doesn't destroy all its nutrients lmao

>>16987452
civilized roman be like
> no cuttlery
> throw food on the floor just because, dogs and slaves clean it clean
> lay down on couch

>>16991432
Forgot pic-rel

this is the most weeb filled thread I've ever read, after spending years browsing this website filled with weebs
well done

>>16991532
You must not read very fast.

>>16991538
I don't browse the dedicated weeb boards

>>16991532
Why browse 4chan if you don't like weebs? Do you also normally order food you don't like as well?

Can we at least agree this is a superior spoon?

>>16983267
Hey friends, I'm sort of new here and just installed 4chanX. How do i get it to stop doing this?

>>16992299
>installing botnet x
oh no no NO NO NO AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

>>16983381
Sticky rice is eaten from bowl with chopsticks but nonsticky rice is eaten from plate with spoon
So I learned while studying in China

>>16983372
Nigger how can nutrients be destroyed if they're gonna be chewed up in your mouth mere seconds later

>>16983267
The real question is why certain cultures still eat with their hands when spoons are a thing

>>16992299
>bloatnetX
You get what you deserve.

>>16991403
Yeah it does. That's why donuts and bagels are not nutritious.

>>16983607
>not having to deal with the taste of metal
What the fuck kind of shit-tier utensils are you using that you can taste the metal they were made from?

>>16987517
Never been to either Venezuela or western Africa, I see.

Poor areas of the world do this fairly often. Starch with starch, and some starch, with some starch on the side and maybe some protein.

>>16990590
its a metal straw lmao

>>16991381

>>16983267
I've got a weird kind of ambidexterity. I can only write legibly with my right hand. When using one utensil, I operate it with my right hand. When using both a knife and a fork I operate the fork with my left hand and use my right hand to operate the knife. This is strange to me because I cannot normally operate a fork with my left hand, except only when there also a knife in my right hand.

Unrelated to /ck/ but I am equally skilled (really bad) at bowling wether I use my left or right hand. I fap left handed and use my right hand to operate the mouse. It seems that tasks that I don't do often have not developed a preference and tasks that I do often have developed an exclusive preference.

>>16983267
I'm indifferent to eating with them.
I don't really care if I'm using sticks or a fork/spoon/knife.
I really like cooking with sticks though, so much more precise.

>>16993549
I know that feel.
There's a lot of things both of my hands will do equally well, but some things one or the other hand just cannot fucking wrap it's mind around.
Like, ladles, for example.
My right hand just will not fucking make circular motions with a damn ladle smoothly going deosil.

>>16986538
It's piss easy when you aren't autistic about holding the fork the "right" side up

>>16993603

same, chopsticks or a pair of tweezer tongs are so versatile in a kitchen. i dont eat with them tho.

>>16993957
50 bucks chopsticks?

>>16993957
>>16993945
>>16993943
This is some beautiful stuff you're posting here anon.
Hey, lemme ask ya, I want a good set of re-usable sticks for my daily eating.
What's a decent make of sticks that are sturdy, won't warp, and won't break the bank?
Japanese style, preferably. (nothing against other styles, I'm just most comfortable with the Japanese sticks)

>>16993943
is this like crystal healing?
couldn't you use these on any food that you'd like?

>>16983267
I'm in uni right now and like 40 percent if the student population are Chinese or Korean
None of them even use chopsticks

>>16993972
You could also use a wrench as a hammer but that doesn't mean that tools are specialized to the job they do.

>>16983267
I like to eat with them when I'm at an Asian restaurant, surrounded by Asians while I squint my eyes, pull my top lip up to show my two front teeth, and say "OHHHHHH DERRY GUD SURRSHI CHEF ME RUVA CHINESE FOOD ROOOOOOONG TIME-U" to show I appreciate the Chibese culture.

>>16983267
Chopsticks are nice for snacks that you usually eat with your hands, like chips or popcorn. You don't get your hands dirty and can do some EPIC GAMERING without thinking about getting your keyboard dirty for example.

>>16983267
Whenever I hold chopsticks like this and try to close them, they move sideways and cause a torque that pushes food out of my grasp.

>>16983267
>fork
american wageslave detected

>spoon is all you need
yes

>>16983267
I use them for cooking, wooden sticks are innert, dont melt in the heat, dont conduct heat to your fingers, dont scratch the pan, you can grab individual pieces of things with them and in general gives you a lot of control.

>>16990834
>If you stab a piece of food, you smoosh it into whatever's underneath and next to it.
Unless you're trying to eat something like cotton candy, this is a non-issue. Chopstick defenders always come up with the most bizarre copes. It's like they're those incompetent morons on infomercials who fail at basic tasks that nobody in real life has any problem with.