Chork

A chork is a piece of cutlery that combines the utility of a fork and chopsticks. The utensil was created by Brown Innovation Group in Salt Lake City. It serves as a fork and as training chopsticks while together, but the chork can also be broken in half to be used as normal chopsticks. The purpose of the chork is to "help chopstick novices to practise the notoriously tricky art of eating with sticks".[1] Brown Innovation Groups sells the product "in black and red" and they "are made of food grade high-impact polystyrene", along with being sold in packs of 12 or 24.[2]

Reception

Tech news site Ubergizmo writer Edwin Kee said that the Chork is a "unique cross between the fork and chopstick" and that it "delivers the best of both worlds at the same time".[3] Yahoo! News's Piper Weiss said that the creation of the chork was "a direct result of America's food fusion".[4] Casey Chan wrote in Gizmodo that the chork is "more of an abomination than a spork", but that it would be "the first utensil that we should invent if we were to go back in time".[5] Sofi Papamarko, also for Yahoo! News, called the chork "the great equalizer of utensils" because it combines "the elegance of chopsticks and the simplicity of a fork into one tool".[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ted Thornhill (April 12, 2012). "Is the Chork the future of eating? East and West end their dinner-time conflict at last with the invention of the chopstick-fork". Daily Mail. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
  2. ↑ Lauren Freeman (April 16, 2012). "Chopstick and fork combine to make chork". KPRC-TV. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
  3. ↑ Edwin Kee (April 12, 2012). "Chork is a cousin of the Spork". Ubergizmo. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
  4. ↑ Piper Weiss (April 12, 2012). "The Chork: If Chopsticks and Forks Had a Baby". Yahoo! News. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
  5. ↑ Casey Chan (April 11, 2012). "The Chork Is the Beautifully Awful Lovechild of a Fork and Chopsticks That Will Prevent World War III". Gizmodo. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
  6. ↑ Sofi Papamarko (April 13, 2012). "‘Chork’ combines chopsticks and a fork in one utensil". Yahoo! News. Retrieved May 12, 2012.