Forks
Each fork has specific functions and allows you to serve yourself while enjoying your food to offer a better dining experience. In order to properly choose the forks suited to your needs, it is necessary to get to know them better.
Characteristics of a fork
In terms of kitchen utensil or cutlery, a fork is a utensil, often made of metal with a handle ending in a head that branches into several narrow tines, generally slightly curved, with which it is possible to pierce food to cut it with a knife or bring it to the mouth.
The different types of forks and their uses
Depending on the use, certain characteristics of a fork depend on the number of tines, the size, the thickness, the shape and the angle of the handle. You therefore have, among others, the fork for:
- salad with four tines
- snail fork, longer and finer with two long and thin tines
- oyster or shellfish fork: a small fork with three tines and a thick handle
- table fork for meat and the main course with four tines
- fish with four tines in a flatter and wider shape
- dessert with three tines the same size as a salad spoon
- serving, wide, with four or five tines
- carving with two long pointed and separated tines
- pressing with three widely spaced and long ends
- fruit forks are small with three tines
