Whilst washing the dishes tonight, I pondered the:
Knife
Spoon
Fork
And gave thought to the:
Spork
And also acknowledged the:
Chopsticks
Straw
Am I missing another well-known and oft-used utensil than mankind uses to get food into their mouths?
(this question is way too doofy to put in General Questions)
I think you’ve got things pretty well covered… why, is there an empty slot in your silverware tray? :dubious:
Well, in our house, we also have steak knives and baby spoons.
But chopsticks work great as coffee stirrers, discovering this, I have more spoons available for more spoony type things.
Those corn on the cob suckers, whatever they’re called. And there’s also the toothpick (for bite sized morsels) and those long pronged things that you use with fondue.
And skewers for when you’re feeling in the mood for shish kabobs.
And grapefruit spoons with the little saw teeth on the edges. Hmm, if sporks the bastard child of a spoon and fork, maybe we should call grapefruit spoons spifes since they’re sort of a combination of a spoon and a knife.
finger?
Does injera count? 
Oh, heavens.
There are tons of other utensils that the OP didn’t mention.
How about ice tongs, sugar cube tongs, butter knives, cake servers, seafood forks, nut crackers, and nutmeat picks? Those implements aren’t common in my life, but for some people, they probably are.
I take it we’re not even going into the incredible variety of implements used during the Victorian era in England and during the British Raj. They had such things as bread forks, mango forks and spoons, etiquette spoons (which look like a pretty good idea for modern use, too. I wonder why they went out of style?), moustache spoons, and marrow scoops.
Do people still eat marrowbone?
Don’t forget ladles. Autolycus will be along shortly to tell you all about the many uses of ladles.
You have forgotten the runcible spoon. How could you? :eek:
When come back, bring pie server.
It now occurs to me that I and a friend once decided to make kebabs, but, the cutlery drawer not being as well stocked as it might have been, used tent pegs to keep the stuff together. So, would tent pegs count?
Someone has come up with a fork with a sharpened edge that you can use for cutting food, as people already do with the edge of a fork. It’s not the same as the sporfe above, and I think it’s made of metal.
I’d be afraid to use the damned thing – I’d probably split the corners of my mouth.
Yeah, I’ve heard them talk about them on The Daily Giz Wiz, but I can’t remember the name of them, either.
In a similar situation, but with no tent pents handy, I used spaghetti noodles. Since it didn’t actually work, I don’t know if it counts, but they made a pretty heroic effort that should be recognized.