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19041818 No.19041818 [Reply] [Original]

Why do the Japanese use them? Are there advantages? Just use a fork and spoon ya dinguses

>> No.19041836

>>19041818
>Are there advantages
Yeah, picking up individual pieces of food or food you don't want to stab. Of course they have spoons and forks but they're mainly used for cooking instead of eating

>> No.19041841

>>19041836
Who cares about not stabbing food? Are these goofballs eating eggs whole?

>> No.19041856

>>19041841
Think about eating sushi, you don't want to stab that because it'll fall apart. Or think about a dumpling or something with filling like that. The food will stay exactly the way it is until it's in your mouth. Chopsticks are like long fingers and because for many reasons you might not want to use your actual fingers to eat.

>> No.19041861
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19041861

>just me getting comfortable while all the Jap apologists rush to in to add their 2¢

>> No.19041862

>>19041818
noodles

>> No.19041869

>>19041818
Basically only good for eating noodles or messy American Sushi. If your food is neither of those then hands or a spork will do just fine. They're more useful for cooking than eating eye em oh.

>> No.19041878

>>19041818
Sometimes I use chop sticks to eat normal food
t. white guy that has banged dozens of Asian girls over the years. It comes with the territory.

>> No.19041888

>>19041818
Once some pork chops or anything is cut up with a knife and fork like humans then the pieces can be picked up with daity with chopsticks like from savages.

>> No.19041894

>>19041878
choppastik are really only defensible for eating popcorn. nothing else justifies them

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>>19041818
how to properly use chop sticks

as skewers.. unless sushi cause that is just finger food anyway..

>> No.19042085

>>19041818
you shouldn't use a fork or a spoon for finger foods and some are made to get shit all over your hands

>> No.19042134

>>19041818
My forks and spoons aren't made of ivory but my chopsticks are, seems like a clear choice to me.

>> No.19042222

>>19041818
They just work tremendously better for noodles, especially flat noodles

>> No.19042231

>>19041894
Do you have hands?

>> No.19042239

>>19042222
I have never had a problem eating noodles with a fork. Chopsticks are inferior

>> No.19042286

>>19042239
it's not hard to eat noodles with a fork its just that with chopsticks with big flat noodles you can pick up just one big noodle at a time and eat it, and especially get to slurp it and get the texture and sauce distributed better. You can with a fork, but forks are for grabbing multiple noodles at once and rolling them into a noodle ball. Also with more fragile noodles forks can tend to break them
If you ever had super wide and flat homemade noodles you'd understand why people like using chopsticks with them

>> No.19042290

>>19042231
sometimes you can't get your fingers all oily or butt'ry eating things like popcorn. and a fork or spoon don't work well at all. but chopsticks are perfect. the food was made to be gripped by choppastik

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>>19042239
>he's never had biang

>> No.19042293

>>19042222
This. Also quads. Love eating ramen with chopsticks.

>> No.19042295

>>19041869
Forks are better for noodles. It's nigh impossible to twist noodles properly with chopsticks. So inefficient.

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>>19042295
Forgot pic

>> No.19042302

>>19041869
>spork
stfu

>> No.19042317

>>19042291
A fork would be easier. With chopstick you're going to have length of that hanging out of your mouth you'll have to bite off. But with a fork you can roll a neat packet you can pop in your mouth with no mess.

>> No.19042324

>>19042295
noodles are not meant to be twisted with chopsticks

>> No.19042326

>>19041856
I should try eating ravioli with them...

>> No.19042333

>>19042324
Right. They're meant to be twisted with forks. Chopsticks shouldn't be involved.

>> No.19042338

>>19041818
not really the tableware scenario you're talking about, but using long chopsticks (saibashi) are actually pretty useful for certain cooking scenarios where you are trying to flip individual smaller things. tongs are much more cumbersome and it's way easier to fuck food up when using them because you can easily apply to much force
>>19042333
cute answer

>> No.19042340

hate the disposable bamboo ones but like store bought reusable ones

>> No.19042368

>>19041856
Wow an actually sensible non-retarded post on /ck/ , thank you anon

>> No.19042378

>>19041818
I like stabbing my dimsum with muh sticks then leaving them stabbed in some white rice.

>> No.19042379

>>19042317
Biang is typically served as just 2 long (1.5 meters) noodles, you're supposed to bit them off

>> No.19042388

I like putting little flags on some chop sticks and sticking them into my bunches of white rice at restaurants, Deal with it and fuck off.
It draws out enemies.

>> No.19042397

>>19041818
Because the japs thought that they were the superiour bug crinkle bug race, yet as they found out were not superiour to anything. They like going around being cunts with nothing to support it.

>> No.19042404

You can grab food like you would with your fingers without getting your fingers dirty.

>> No.19042406

>historically easier to produce two fuckin sticks than a fork
>can debone fish better than a fork
>can spear something or pick it up
>can pick things up without destroying them or piercing them (e.g. a soup dumpling)
>can be more precise to the extent of picking up a single grain of rice, or a small piece of carrot from a stew, say

It has its advantages and so do forks, who would've thought utensils can coexist for different purposes

>> No.19042408

I dont like much eating with them, but they are superior for cooking pan dishes, you have much more dexterity with chopsticks than a tong

>> No.19042411

>>19042404
What are you, some kind of nigger?
Who goes around grabbing food?

>> No.19042416

They used them because they had not the technology to make metal utensils, they could carve bamboo sticks much easier

>> No.19042420

>>19042404
Now cut a steak with chopsticks, cut a porkchop

>> No.19042421

>>19042411
>What are you, some kind of nigger?
No I'm some kind of gook
>Who goes around grabbing food
Not me because I have sticks

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>> No.19042426
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>>19042404
Eat this with chopsticks

>> No.19042433

>>19042420
Everyone knows what they can't do, idk why you think that's some kind of "gotcha". If you're gonna be eating your steak with chopsticks then the cook will cut it into bite sized pieces before serving, which isn't very hard to do

>> No.19042434

>>19042426
They dont serve like that. Everything is cut into bite sized pieces in the kitchen. Main reason why you wont get hot food in japan as everything gets cold by the time it ends up in front of you, except the liquid dishes ofc.

>> No.19042437

>>19042426
And eat soup with a fork. Different utensils for different foods you dumb faggot, no one ever said "forks and spoons are retarded" but this entire thread is shitting on chopsticks against an argument no one made

>> No.19042438

>>19042411
>>19042420
>>19042426
Nobody cares what white people think about food

>> No.19042444

>>19042433
So they cut it up for you?
how very, very sad
That only happens here if you are a child

>> No.19042451

>>19042438
Nah this is fun,,,,stupid chopsticks

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19042455

Why don't the japanese eat spaghetti with chopsticks?

>> No.19042457

>>19042444
Oh yeah? When you get a salad with chicken, or some chicken alfredo, or a quesadilla there's just a whole chicken breast in there that you have to deal with yourself? Your philly cheesesteaks are just a whole ribeye on bread?

>> No.19042460

>>19042444
>So they cut it up for you?
So you eat whole cows?

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>>19041856
>Chopsticks are like long fingers

>> No.19042473

>>19042460
yes swallow them whole one gulp

>> No.19042479

>>19042462
dude mind blown. what a revelation.

kill zoomers.

>> No.19042489

>>19042479
t. has never just like looked at his hands bro like whoa think about it

>> No.19042497
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19042497

Eat with chopsticks

>> No.19042514
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>>19042497
Ok

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>> No.19042540

Chopped Dicks? Why would anyone want to eat with Chopped Dicks?

>> No.19042574

>>19042540
Trying to eat when the dicks are still attached to the body is really awkward.

>> No.19042598

>>19042455
They use a fork for spaghetti? What a bunch of dumbasses

>> No.19042968

>>19042455
The same reason westerners eat hibachi with chopsticks
OHHH TRADITIONARU ITARIANOO
As they pour corn and mayonnaise on their bolognase

>> No.19043036

I have watched youtube lessons and gripping chopsticks is still very uncomfortable for me

isn't there a better device like small tongs, maybe with a loop for your finger

>> No.19043111

Chopsticks are unmatched for cooking.
>manipulate food
>separate food items
>feel doneness of food
>remove bay leaf
>check oil temp
>check water temp

>> No.19043440

>>19043036
you got to build the muscles to use it if you're not used to the motion

>> No.19043523

>>19041836
You can just do that with a fork by turning it the other way around. Or a spoon.

>> No.19043555

>>19041818
i use them for popcorn.
>pop corn
>fill bowl 1/3rd
>sprinkle whatever powders i want
>repeat 2 more times
>have full bowl of finger-dirtying popcorn
>going to watch a movie or something
>the loud scenes will be blaring and dialogue will be too low
>have to ride the remote
>don't want to get remote filthy
>use chopsticks to eat popcorn

>> No.19043629

>>19041894
>choppastik are really only defensible for eating popcorn. nothing else justifies them
The other day I got served some asian themed chicken that came with chopsticks for an appetizer and then a regular burger and truffle fries covered in parmesan for a main. I ate the chicken and then used the chopsticks to eat the fries. It was perfect and kept my hands clean. I would also eat poutine with chopsticks.

>> No.19043645

>>19041841
>pick up egg with chopsticks
>take a bite
>take another bite
>one more bite
>egg eaten

>> No.19043700

Whatever they're used for, we can all agree, Chinese chopsticks are the least retarded.
Extra length for more fulcrum power, squared off ends for actually squeezing object without piercing, usually wood so they don't absorb heat from stirring hot food while cooking.

>> No.19043981

>>19043036
i think i saw in some japan documentary where the family was eating. Their kids were using some kind of "training chopsticks"

>> No.19044333

>>19043555
Do you have access to a sink and water? Perhaps soap?

>> No.19044387

>>19041861
Excuse me I am a ccp shill thank you very much

>> No.19044403

>>19044333
while watching a movie? not the 40 times im gonna touch the remote.

>> No.19044423

>>19042444
>That only happens here if you are a child
Nobody cares what happens where you come from. Its not as cool as japan.

>> No.19044428

>>19041818
I dont eat food from cultures of people who have not advanced enough to invent the simple fork.

>> No.19044467

>>19044428
Based.

>> No.19044477

>>19044428
I assume you exclusively eat Italian food, then. Northern Italian, at that. That's the only culture that invented the fork.

>> No.19044485

>>19044477
>weebs actually believe this

>> No.19044494

I always stick these up in my rice bowl because fuck you

>> No.19044706

>>19044494
Fork or spoon is far superior you werb

>> No.19044831

>>19044485
The fork didn't exist until Venetians invented it in the middle ages. All other unwashed barbarians (i.e., n*rds, g*rms and sl*vs) immediately adopted their innovation.

>> No.19045066

i eat everything with chopsticks. it actually confuses me that putting sharp metal objects like forks is considered more normal. the metal also effects the taste of things.

but that's just me.

>> No.19045152

>>19041818
>i got made fun of because i didn't know how to use chopsticks

>> No.19045157

>>19041878
My coworkers think I use chopsticks with unusual frequency but it's way better to throw out bamboo sticks than plastic.

>> No.19045307

>>19044706
It makes weebs seethe so I do it anyways.
Clearly utensils are better

>> No.19046669

Bros how the fuck am I supposed to eat large pieces of Karaage at the sushi bar? I tend to double stab and pull them apart but I know I'm doing it wrong.

>> No.19046677

>>19045066
>just me
yeah and a few billion others

>> No.19046843

>>19046669
Bite it?

>> No.19048183

I remember my dad has a business partner from china come to our country. We welcomed him home, and he ate beef stroganoff with a spoon, because he couldn't use a fork, because they use chop sticks, but they know what a spoon is.
Yeah. It was certainly interesting beyond belief as a kid.