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4823241 No.4823241[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Why do people like to feel superior about being able to use chopsticks

Im chinese and I know how use them myself proficiently but honestly they feel so pointless and vastly inferior to western cutlery

Even when going to asian restaurants I sometimes just use a fork to eat but get 'pleb-snickering' vibes from people

Chopsticks hold no superiority over western cutlery that warrants the smugness behind them

>> No.4823244

Indeed

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>superiority

well, who is speaking in term of better/worse? shit is just different

plus, is there is some sense of superiority feeling it has nothing to do with the practical aspect of the tools we use to eat, it is just based on the fact that a different thing, no matter the context, will be taken by faggots as a justification for elitism.

>> No.4823417

>>4823241
i think it's fun to use chopsticks and super easy to learn. sort of tells a bit about a persons character if they can't even bother to learn an easy thing like that.

>> No.4823419

>>4823241
>vastly inferior to western cutlery
They're not. Chopsticks are good for actual Asian food and a knife and fork are good for western food. That's it. There is no inferior or superior in this.

>> No.4823426

I've gotten my friends to stop using them. for a few months whenever we sat down at the resturant or at home with the take out, if I saw them starting to use the chopsticks I would just use mine to slap them on the hand until they used silverware like a normal person. Eventually they all stopped using the damn twigs.

>> No.4823429

for some things they are better for some they are not.
probably also some kind of immersion thing into the culture of the food you eat. it gives this "flavor".

>> No.4823467

My dad use to talk shit about me not being able to use them, but then i started going to this asian place around the corner and started using them more often. I think its more of a skill type thing to know how to use chopsticks.

>> No.4823506

Chinese here as well. Also prefer western cutlery.

Eating soupy shit or giant lions head meatbals is a joke with chopsticks. It can be done but it's 100% easier with a spoon

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>>4823241
OP is a faggot.
Now, let me justify that claim.

>Why do people like to feel superior about being able to use chopsticks?
Because they are faggots.

>but get 'pleb-snickering' vibes from people
Because they are faggots.

>Chopsticks hold no superiority over western cutlery
Of course not, you faggot.

Chopsticks are there as an option for you to use when you think it's best suited for you.
So is bare hands, like the Indians, and Pacific Islanders do.

To consider one thing is superior over another is just faggot-ery.
Just use what you're comfortable with.
And most important of all ENJOY YOUR GOOD for fucks sake, regardless of the cutlery you use.

FOR FUCK SAKES.

>> No.4823525

I eat bananas with fruit knife and fork.

Discuss.

>> No.4823526

>>4823506
Well of course you don't eat those kind of foods with chopsticks you big dumby even the old folks don't do that type of shit.

You act like us chinaman don't use spoons or some shit.

>> No.4823535

>>4823241
>Why do people like to feel superior about being able to use chopsticks
Because it's a learned skill and a feat of manual dexterity and all other things being equal a person who knows how to use chopsticks is superior to one who doesn't.

>> No.4823547

>>4823241
> I sometimes just use a fork to eat but get 'pleb-snickering' vibes from people

This has never happened. Op confirmed for whiny white kid whose parents neglected him and never taught him basic life skills.

>> No.4823556

>>4823429
For me it's also this. Food is also an aesthetic experience and some little touches just enhance the experience.

I also like to pair beers with fitting glasses for example, and I like to sip my oolong and puerh from a little gongfu cup and my Western style blacks from old fashioned porcelain. Not merely for taste, but also because it adds to the look and feel.

>> No.4823579

There are definitely foods that I cannot picture eating without chopsticks.

Like sushi, or soup dumplings

>> No.4823599

>>4823579
Sushi you are supposed to eat with your hands, and I don't see how there is anything wrong with eating soup dumplings with a spoon.

>> No.4823602

Yeah ok enjoy eating your soup dumplings or chicken feet with that fork.

>> No.4823603

>>4823599
If you actually know how to use chopsticks it's easier for one.

>> No.4823604

>>4823419
>Chopsticks are good for actual Asian food
forks are better

>> No.4823609

>>4823603
Oh wait, you meant xiaolongbao. Thought you were talking about dumplings in soup.

Yeah, chopsticks is the way to go.

>> No.4823610

>>4823599
I place the soup dumplings onto the soup spoons with chopsticks. Sue me.

>> No.4824086

i dont usually eat with chopsticks, only when im at an asian restaurant. i just think its fun.
with sushi it feels like a must, a fork would just make it difficult, but with fried rice, both works which is unexpected with chopsticks.

>> No.4824095

>>4824086
why not just eat your sushi with your hands?

>> No.4824102

>>4823419
This. OP is a retard. Typical self hating Asian. U think u whitey?

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>> No.4824118

>>4824117
you got some issues, buddy.

>> No.4824117

>>4824095
cause it feels dirty to eat with my bare hands, i feel a bit disgusted when i see someone eat something with their bare hands, this excludes bread type dishes like hamburger, sandviches etc.

>> No.4824135

>>4824104
>Sticks crossing

Get it together, dog.

>> No.4824163

>>4823241
sat in a restaurant once and watched an old asian grandma eat peas with chopsticks faster than i could manage with a fork and knife.

and she ate them one by one..

>> No.4824210

>>4824163
let the chopsticks become an extension of yourself anon, become like one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAxOHPmITHI

>> No.4824218

>>4823523
You can be damn sure this guy can't use chopsticks.

>> No.4824765

i dunno man i was getting soup noodle with a friend and he had to use a fork, looked really awkward

when i got the fork from the counter the waitress was like 'FOR YOUR FRIEND? HAHAHAHAhaha"

you gotta imagine someone getting confused by a knife and fork nah mean. I don't think the 'vibes' are ever really hostile, just sort of confused.

>> No.4824777

because any savage can spear their food.

>> No.4824786

>>4824777
I like to spear sushi with chopsticks. That's why the Japanese chopsticks are pointier.

>> No.4825015

>>4824786
Spearing with chopsticks is bad manners.

>> No.4825021

>>4825015
It's ok, I'm clapistani, so it's expected of me.

>> No.4825043

I have poor fine motor control and using chopsticks consistently helps me strengthen my hands.

>> No.4825055

>they feel so pointless and vastly inferior to western cutlery
In what way? They're much better utensils for seizing bite-size bits of foods than forks and more precise too. I can grab a single salad leaf or a potato chip (if I felt like it) with chopsticks, something you'd be hard press to do with a fork. Plus, being a single-hand utensil, you can pair it with any other shit you need like a knife or spoon.

>> No.4825074

>>4825015
I eat my sushi with my hands

Is that acceptable?

>> No.4825080

>>4825074
Yes, it is.

>> No.4825082

>>4825074

Sushi is finger food. Even in high end sushi places, customers eat sushi with their hand.

>> No.4825087

>>4823241
any fool can stab a fork into his food. assuming the individual in question wasn't raised in an environment where chopstick use was the norm, the ability to effectively wield chopsticks indicates his or her edification, patience, and cultural broad-mindedness. and the fun and novelty concomitant with deploying chopsticks at an appropriate meal is worth the effort.

>> No.4825112

>>4825087
what the fuck
that's the largest pile of horse shit I've heard today
WOOO I CAN MOVE TWO TWIGS WITH ONE HAND
is all it means.

You can properly and ettiquitly wield a fork as well. Like when watching people eat noodles. You know, the scoopers compared to the twirl and cut people.

>> No.4825115

>>4825074
Ya, that's what you're actually supposed to do.

But I'm a huge germaphobe, and refuse to touch my food with my hands.
So I use chopsticks over a fork because it keeps my food intact instead of impaling it.

>> No.4825173

>>4823599
It is customary and acceptable to eat sushi with either chopsticks or your hands.

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>> No.4825393

It's more fun to eat noodles with chopsticks. Hell I've eaten Italian with chopsticks. Fuck authenticity

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you you don't use chopsticks at an asian restaurant I can only assume you are a ham-handed neanderthal with the motorskills of a labrador retriever

>> No.4825545

>>4825421
better than being a dainty small handed manlet

>> No.4825590 [DELETED] 

>>4823241
Dude, i'm gonna type as sober as possible, that honestly looks fucking pathetic and digusting compared to my meal. and I'm being one hundred percent serious. Sorry we dont cook shit that was perviously in cans. you're a fuking joke dude, and im dead fuking serious. gert areal family that cooks good food, drinks beer and wine and winecoolers and has a good fuking time, and has a milliondollar house on the beach, im seriously. dont eever potst your fuking families poverty dinner on these forums ever the fuk again bro, and by bro i mean never my bro, fuking faggot.

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>> No.4825648

I cannot eat sliced raw fish using a knife and a fork.
I cannot eat a steak using chopsticks.

>> No.4825663

>>4825648
I agree, and I think OP is an idiot.

>> No.4825684

I'm not the best with chopsticks, but I often go to a mongolian style grill that uses them, and I'll use them just because I find they make eating noodles better for me, forks just don't do the trick.
I don't judge people who use forks there though, use whatever you find comfortable with the situation.

>> No.4825706

My grandfather didn't kill gooks wholesale so I have to use chopsticks.
America: fuck you.

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>>4825706
did he kill fitty men?

>> No.4826836

Chopsticks as a frying utensil is god tier.

>> No.4828242

>>4823426
Wow you sound like a fun guy to be around

>> No.4828246

>>4823599
WRONG

>> No.4828250

>>4824118
not really. eating with unwashed hands is objectively unsanitary and gross. google "germ theory" for more info.

>> No.4828260

>>4828250

Wait, are you implying that you don't wash your hands every time before you eat? What kind of a disgusting pig are you? Do you not wash your hands after using the restroom either?

>> No.4828262

>>4828250
lel

>> No.4828290

>>4828260
i don't wash my hands because I USE CHOPSTICKS YOU DENSE FUCK. alternately, i use another utensil.

>> No.4828298

>>4828290

pig disgusting. Washing hands before eating is basic hygiene, it doesn't matter if you're using chopsticks or a fork or anything else.

>> No.4829999

I bring a wet rag to every meal, wipe them as I eat. In effect I've started eating a lot with just bare hands. sausages, steaks, salads. Quite freeing actually.

>> No.4830013

>>4825112
>twirl and cut
>twirl
>and cut
>cut

You just blew my mind

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Chop sticks are good with things like stir fry when the food is already cut up into bite size pieces, most western food like steak for example needs to be cut up while you eat it.

>> No.4830022

>>4830018
>not just picking the whole steak up with the fork and taking bites out of it

>> No.4830033

If you go to a Chinese restaurant, you use chopsticks. It's as simple as that. If you go to China, you eat Chinese food (inb4 but it's all disgusting - stop going to the fucking street markets). It's a simple matter of cultural respect. You go to Italy, you don't order pasta with meatballs. You to Valencia, you don't have your paella with beef.

>> No.4830091

>>4830022
> not using your knife to make a steak-pop

>> No.4830134

>>4828290
Well there you go OP. They have to use chopsticks because they don't wash their hands.
Even though that makes no sense and germs would just crawl down a sterile utensil if it is even sterile.
Hopefully this guy never gets into the medical profession.

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your chopsticks photos , how to use , etc...

>> No.4831391

>>4824102
They are just eating utensils not a statement about ones life.

>> No.4831622

>>4825115
>afraid of hand-contact
>eating sushi

>> No.4831639

>>4823604

Stabbing sushi with a fork would crush it and make it fall apart. A spoon probably wouldn't fit it properly, and it would just roll off. It's easy to pick up with a pincer-like motion though, i.e. chopsticks, regardless of size.

However, eating loose rice, or stir fry, especially when some sort of lubricating sauce is involved, is undeniably easier with a fork/spoon.

>> No.4831694

>>4823599
>removing sushi from a communal platter with your fingers
do you even manners?

I like eating with chop sticks because it means my food is already cut into bite sized pieces so I can just focus on enjoying my meal. What the fuck am I paying the restaurant for if I have to cut my own food? thats half the cooking process right there.

>> No.4831706

>>4823525

>eating bananas

you make me sick

>> No.4831840

>>4824117


....what the fuck?

I have never once in my like seen somebody it a hamburger with a fork and knife.

>> No.4831859

>>4823241
Were you born in China? If you are only half it doesn't count, you are just a white boy.

>> No.4831897

>>4823241
It is superior if you are the /DIY/ crowd. Instant mad skill in using the multimeter probes by 1 hand onto tiny electronic parts.

.

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>>4823241
This post sounds a lot like flamewar bait, but regardless:
I don't necessarily think that either utensil is better than the other, but I find chopsticks just fun to use so I'll eat with them if I get the chance and if it doesn't look weird.
Just ignore them though, there are (buzzword alert) pretentious people everywhere you go but generally people won't actually care or pay attention OP, paranoia is just a nasty side effect of posting on 4chan.

>> No.4831951

>>4823417
You're a whackjob if you judge character entirely on a person's choice of eating utensil.

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My stepfather loves Chinese food. I am 6 or 7yrs old the first time I used them. Wasn't allowed to eat without them. Glad I learned so early. Any asain dish requires chopsticks for me..it just tastes/feels right. You wouldn't eat a steak with a grapefruit spoon would you? Wait... Also, 37/white, so I look like a pretentious jerk too. Hate that. Yo! IT JUST TASTES BETTER W/ CHOPSTICKS.

>> No.4832059

>>4831840
did you read my whole post? hamburger and dishes like those is the exception.
and eating a hamburger with fork and knife is normal where im from, its less messy and its just as efficient, maybe even more efficient.
>>4830134
what if you dont want to be forced to wash your hands everytime you use them?
sure its hygenic but cleaning your skin too much causes irritation.
and doctors and others in medical professions dont use soap to clean their hands, they use some antiseptic chemicals.

>> No.4832071

>>4831951
No you are not. If they know simple things like how to use chopsticks and have table manners it shows character. If a girl im on a date with eats very neat she is a lot more interesting. You would be a fool to not judge. My friends that don't eat chopsticks are pretty dull or stupid.

>> No.4832073

>>4832071
eat with*

>> No.4832078

If you've never used chopsticks, they prove quite tricky at first. I started using them until I was efficient with my finger movements, just to have the "skill" but I went back to lazy forks and spoons afterwards.

I'm pretty sure Karate Kid has a lot to do with it, too.

>> No.4832101

>>4832071
but muh feelings! muh neckbeard! my parents sucked so anyone with basic life skills is a weeaboo!

>> No.4832104

>>4832101
That not what I said fuck boy.

>> No.4832146

Asian foods seem to taste better when eaten with bamboo chop sticks. Probably just because it's what I'm used to.

But I don't think less of someone eating anything with a knife and fork.

>> No.4832181

Chopsticks are supposed to be used as spoon of the poor with bowls of food, not to single-pick every fucking piece of food you have on a PLANE DISH.
It makes me cring to see a fuckface struggling / trying to show off eating FRIED RICE from a PLATE. Are you gonna eat every grain like this ?

They are kinda okay with sushi because in that way, you don't use your gross fingers to touch everyone else's food and you can take your share of seaweed easily.
Yet, if you can't use them or don't really need to use them, just don't.

>> No.4832189

A lot of asian dishes are sort of designed to be eaten with chopsticks. Any sort of rice bowl consisting of chopped up food over rice I generally find is easier to eat with sticks since spearing food with a fork tends to smush everything down through the rice to the bottom of the bowl before you can get it properly speared.