It's easier to eat with chopsticks than with a fork*
Been doing it since birth.
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Vegetable based salads yes. Meat based, perhaps not.
It's easier to eat salad by putting your face in the bowl and chomping away.
Source: I am a cow and I won several local salad eating competitions.
When I'm alone I eat salads with my bare hands if there's no dressing on it. But when I'm in proper company with people I have to socially adapt and I'm required to use utensils.
Society sucks, cows are cool. salad is a way of life, not a 'side dish'
radish!
Only if you are good with chopsticks.
Good news! Eating things like salad, chips/crisps, fried rice, noodle dishes, ramen, etc. is a great way to get good with chopsticks.
And the dog will love all the dropped items. Win win!
I learned how to use chopsticks in my college years. It's not that difficult. I was born in Wyoming to German/Irish immigrant descendants so I am not culturally your typical chopstick user, but I've decided that I'm going to keep chopsticks handy for salads from now on.
They never said it was difficult. Just stating the fact that eating salad with chopsticks is only easier if you already know how to use them.
I totally agree with you that it’s easy, but many people still don’t know how.
Rookie. Add enough dressing and just drink it like a vegetable soup.
If ease-of-consumption is all that counts, just make smoothies out of everything.
I mean, that's basically what most of those "super greens" smoothies are.
Plus grass. They put a lot of grass clippings in those, too. And I don't think it's because it's healthy or because it tastes good or anything, I think they put grass in those smoothies because, and hear me out here, I think it's because it's part of a secret hazing ritual as part of the initiation to join a secret society of religious zealots hellbent on resurrecting Lord Jamba who will invoke the Razzmatazzmapocalypse and
Grass just makes it taste green.
Also you just got sniped for revealing the conspiracy.
It’s easier to eat rice from a bowl with a spoon than chopsticks imho
Easier to eat sticky rice (like in Japan) with chopsticks than a spoon, and cultures that don't make sticky rice (China, Korea) don't eat rice with chopsticks.
Actually I know Korea uses a spoon and I think China does for fried rice but if they have a bowl of white rice they might use chopsticks because it's culturally acceptable to pick up the bowl and just kind of push it into your mouth.
Good luck eating Thai sticky rice with chopsticks though 😂
They do eat sticky rice in Korea and eat them with (metal) chop sticks. I've never seen any family or restaurant serving non-stick rice.
I'll have to take your word for it. I've been to Korea a few times but I can't quite remember what other people were using for their rice in restaurants. I know they at least use it for stuff like bibimbap, and I've seen a couple Koreans say they use spoons for just rice on yt
Yes, rice is best eating with spoons. I have no idea how people eat rice with chopsticks. They're crazy. Actually I think they eat sticky chunky rice, so they pick up the rice in clusters with chopsticks and that's great for them but that is not the kind of food I eat so whatever.
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I like my rice mixed with sauce
Sounds like your stabbing skills are sub-par
The fork tines are dull. Cannot stab anything except for the middle chunky part of the lettuce. Nothing else on that plate is stab-able and it's driving me crazy.
Slow the fuck down, Dexter!
My salads often contain corn or nuts. There's simply no way the shoveling abilities of a fork is harder than having to pick up small pieces with chopsticks.
And even the big leaves, how is stabbing down once and getting 5 leaves at the same time harder than doing more motions to "grab" the same amount of leaves?
You can absolutely shovel with chopsticks. It may take a little extra dexterity, but is far from impossible. It's really only harder if you haven't much practice with chopsticks. Besides, shoveling anything with a fork is kind of a disaster when you throw leafy greens into the mix.
That's not how I eat a salad with chopsticks. No stabbing, no shoveling; at the dinner table that is bad etiquette. It's more like "grabbing" a clump of lettuce and toppings mixed together with a couple "fingers", except your "fingers" are chopsticks. Most of the small bits stick to the leafy greens or are inherently wrapped up in them. I find picking those few remaining tiny bits out of the bottom of a bowl is actually easier with chopsticks than trying to shovel them on to a fork.
It's perfectly fine to have a fork and a knife and a spoon and chopsticks with us while we're eating, and use whichever instrument is best for any given challenge in front of us. Because I have been struggling a lot with a fork and my salads, not everything is stab-able, only the center crunchy part of lettuce is stab-able and the rest of it is not stab-able unless the fork tines are as sharp as needles, but they're not, the tines on the end of a fork are pretty dull and they are not stabbing into this lettuce. And when I try to scoop it up it just falls off the fork. Don't even get me started on garbanzo beans, chasing those around the plate drives me crazy! And stabbing them makes them fall apart. I am struggling and I'm going to bring chopsticks with me from now on.
Hard disagree. You can shovel most salads with a fork so unless you've got the plate up to your face and you're sliding the salad in like you would do with a bowl of rice and chopsticks then it's fork all day
You shouldn't be shoveling a salad unless it's potato or macaroni salad. Maybe your thinking of coleslaw? Leafy green salads are nearly impossible to shovel with a fork unless you mince the ingredients into unrecognizably tiny bits, aka a slaw. With very little practice, eating with chopsticks isn't much different than eating with your fingers. In fact, there's a few things I can do with chopsticks that I could never easily do with my fingers or a fork.
I fully agree. Crisps/chips are also great with chopsticks, no more flavor fingers.
But this is probably more an unpopular opinion in the west than a shower thought. It shouldn't be unpopular, but just look at the other comments. Clearly not a lot of chopstick users. And I kind of doubt anyone that claims a salad can or should be shovelled.
Yeah every time I try to shovel my salad with the fork, everything falls off the fork. When I try to stab it, nothing is stabbable but just falls apart or falls off the fork. Chopsticks are best. We have a salad bar at work and I'm going to bring chopsticks with me from now on.
Yep, this is absolutely true. Japanese people taught me this. But what totally blows Japanese people's minds is okonomiyaki is best eaten with a fork.
Yeah ... no.
What kind of salad is easier to eat with chopsticks than a fork?
Lettuce, spinach, try to stab those with a fork when they're schlucked to the bottom of the plate.
Easier? IDK, but IMO they're equally easy. Chopsticks are also great for stuff like cheese puffs so you don't get your fingers dirty.
Chopsticks would definitely be well-suited to some, but there are many kinds of salads, so YMMV.
A spoon or soup spoon can also work best with some...
The only thing for which I have found that to be true is sushi. Everything else is way easier with a fork.
You're supposed to use your knife too.
Speak for yourself, I use a spoon
this is truth, specially leaves and awkward flappy stuff, although there are some slippery salads out there
100%. I recently had to use a fork somewhere and it felt so unwieldy.