Chopsticks

[Gyatso-kai]

I tend to prefer round chopsticks, for no reason I can think of. My family uses them, I grew up with them...

The square ones (the really cheap disposable "buy a pack of 200 for 2$") are easier to carry around in the bag (if I forget my kit at home) and are easier to use with sushi...

[Rambhutan]

All the chopsticks I have used have been round at the end you pick up food, though most were square at the end you hold. What I struggle with are the ones that taper to a really thin point, I much prefer ones without much of a taper. I also find plain bamboo or wood easier than other materials or finishes.

[The Intellectual Institute]

Chopsticks?
Is that fad still on the rage with the East?
Oh you crazy Asians and your belief that anything from the West is the work of a demon.

[Soviet Haaregrad]

I prefer squarish chopsticks, for everything from spaghetti to poutine.

[Utopia FTW]

the ones I got from pylones in London.


http://www.pylones.com/produit.php?pid=245&num=6

[Brutland and Norden]

chopsticks are obsolete technology, only hipsters prefer them..

...so you´re saying, that almost all asian people are "hipsters" ? Interesting guess, thinking of an one-hundred year-old chinese rice farmer eating his noodles as a "hipster"...

Well, half of Asia does not use chopsticks. Here in the South and Southeast, we eat with our hands.

[Daistallia 2104]

I find lenth then material to be the more important factors with my chopsticks. Chinese and Vietnamese sticks are tooooo long after years in Japan. Plastic and metal are right out, laquered sticks are too slick, bamboo's OK, wood's good, and cheap waribashi are just right...

[Zebbstar]

I like de Square ones.

[Syvorji]

I often eat food WITH chopsticks, and I believe that neither are better. Why? I eat with my golden hexagonal chopsticks.

[Esternial]

Square, because they're easier to make a chopstick-fortress with.

[Lykosia]

...so you´re saying, that almost all asian people are "hipsters" ? Interesting guess, thinking of an one-hundred year-old chinese rice farmer eating his noodles as a "hipster"...

Well, half of Asia does not use chopsticks. Here in the South and Southeast, we eat with our hands.

Agree. 'Organic' is the best

[Living Freedom Land]

...so you´re saying, that almost all asian people are "hipsters" ? Interesting guess, thinking of an one-hundred year-old chinese rice farmer eating his noodles as a "hipster"...

Well, half of Asia does not use chopsticks. Here in the South and Southeast, we eat with our hands.

Now when people ask me why I'm eating spaghetti with my fingers I can call them culturally insensitive. Now I just have to find an excuse for urinating outdoors.

[Utopia FTW]

why not just use a straw?

[Living Freedom Land]

why not just use a straw?

Straws are for babies who can't drink from cups without spilling the contents everywhere, that's why.

I'm a closet straw user.

[Brutland and Norden]

Well, half of Asia does not use chopsticks. Here in the South and Southeast, we eat with our hands.

Agree. 'Organic' is the best

Environmentally friendly too.

[Lykosia]

Well, half of Asia does not use chopsticks. Here in the South and Southeast, we eat with our hands.

Now when people ask me why I'm eating spaghetti with my fingers I can call them culturally insensitive. Now I just have to find an excuse for urinating outdoors.

err....we don't eat spaghetti or noodle with hands. It's depends on the food anyway.

[Brutland and Norden]

Well, half of Asia does not use chopsticks. Here in the South and Southeast, we eat with our hands.

Now when people ask me why I'm eating spaghetti with my fingers I can call them culturally insensitive. Now I just have to find an excuse for urinating outdoors.

Go on. Eat your spaghetti on a banana leaf.

Eating using the hands sounds easy, but when I was a kid, the elders back in the rural hometown of my mother chided me that I don't know how to eat with my hands. Apparently there is a proper way to do it.

[West Podunk]

We have multiple types and styles, which I'm fairly good with. Experience counts.

Half square (handles), half round (tips) seems to be a reasonable compromise. Throwaway wood, lacquered wood, ivory, metal, and some that I can't identify easily are in our kitchen.

I'm thinking that the metal ones last longer in communal kitchens that use industrial dishwashers, even though that gives up the germ fighting characteristics of wood. Lacquered wood look very nice but have to be carefully hand cleaned to retain their appearance.

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I also went to the trouble of learning to use them right-handed so that I'd not offend locals in the less developed parts of Asia [I'm left-handed]. Not the prettiest sight, I'm sure, and I can eat rice that way so it's functional enough.

[Living Freedom Land]

You people have to make everything so complicated. I just wanted an excuse to violate established social norms, and you have to ruin everything for me.

[Esternial]

Now when people ask me why I'm eating spaghetti with my fingers I can call them culturally insensitive. Now I just have to find an excuse for urinating outdoors.

Go on. Eat your spaghetti on a banana leaf.

Eating using the hands sounds easy, but when I was a kid, the elders back in the rural hometown of my mother chided me that I don't know how to eat with my hands. Apparently there is a proper way to do it.

Your probably forgot the pinky.

[Flameswroth]

I have only ever utilized the small, wooden cheapo ones from fast food restaurants. In college I ate at a Japanese style rice bowl place a ton, and they had round ones. Panda Express, a Chinese-esque fast food restaurant, uses the square ones that you have to break apart when you get them. I do not, due to the small size, recall there being any sort of advantage of one over the other, but I enjoyed the circle ones most. So I choose those.

That said, I have seen the huge chopsticks (reusable, all smooth and shit) and it would seem to me that the most ergonomic ones would be triangle ones, but any straight side would definitely help you grip food better, and have the sticks sit in your hand easier.

[Central and Eastern Visayas]

To be honest, I'm comfortable with either round or square--I could use my own square-handled round-tipped wood chopsticks as easily as I could use the disposable square chopsticks you find in a restaurant or my mom's own round metal chopsticks. However, I use my left hand in all cases, being a left-hander myself. It just feel unnatural using my off-hand to hold two things that are as thick as and longer than the pens I use when writing.

[Dakini]

I prefer the kind that come to a point to the ones that don't. Usually I suppose the ones I like best are rounded, but that's not the part I like about them.

I can use both (and actually only own the blunt ones right now since I'm lazy and haven't been looking for the pointed ones much at all), it's just a preference.

[Dakini]

Chopsticks?
Is that fad still on the rage with the East?
Oh you crazy Asians and your belief that anything from the West is the work of a demon.

I'm not Asian and I find that chopsticks can be rather handy. I don't use them all the time, but they tend to be the only thing I use at my office, for instance.

[Forsakia]

Why did the same cultures that eats loads of rice develop chopsticks to eat with. Seems so counter-intuitive (or do they secretly use spoons?).