The Wonder That Is the Ramen Fork

Published on Monday, May 10, 2010, by James Norton / Edit Post

The noodle dish known as ramen is one of those wonder foods that lives a truly complicated existence, both filling and transcending the massive space that separates the degenerate eating habits of American college freshmen and truly refined Japanese cooking. Thus: If you hadn't been notified that the dish has its own fork, you've been missing out.


The fork—a gorgeous metal spork if you want to be brutally accurate—made an appearance late last week on Epic Portions, which describes it as "A fork with both tine for noodles and a small bowl for soup base. Brilliant."

This lovely bit of hyperspecialized cutlery can be had online for about $14. Or, if you'd prefer to measure it a different way, the price of roughly 48 packages of Nissin Top Ramen.

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  • Or maybe a runcible spoon.

  • Looks like a glorified spork to me... like KFC used to include with their meals:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spork

  • And disposable chopsticks are actually reusable with a little sandpaper and food grade mineral oil. They are made of bamboo afterall. Just sand and shape, dust off and oil. Hand wash (which you would do with nice fancy pants chopsticks anyway) and re-oil as necessary. I actually prefer the lighter square-ish disposables to the laquered versions. Plus I like that I know what's in the finish as...+READ

    And disposable chopsticks are actually reusable with a little sandpaper and food grade mineral oil. They are made of bamboo afterall. Just sand and shape, dust off and oil. Hand wash (which you would do with nice fancy pants chopsticks anyway) and re-oil as necessary. I actually prefer the lighter square-ish disposables to the laquered versions. Plus I like that I know what's in the finish as opposed to the finshed chopsticks where I have not idea if that nice lovely paint/laquer is lead, mercury, toxin free. Which normally wouldn't freak me out but lately just is more than I want to cope with.-COLLAPSE

  • +1 for above. What exactly is wrong with non-disposable chopsticks, again?

  • Or get those 48 packages of ramen and eat it with chopsticks/sip from the bowl like a normal person would.