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For outdoor campers who need compact, multiuse carry, the Light My Fire titanium spork is a lightweight utensil that is durable and biocompatible. The titanium surface is polished and free of any metallic taste, and is non-corrosive and non-magnetic Read More
My Sporks just arrived. It's bigger than I expected, but welcome as they will actually be comfortable to use.
They are replacing a fork and spoon I carried in the pen holders of my messenger bag and a FRED I had in my car.
Poly or Titanium this product is stupid, they're to short and uncomfortable to use. I'll stick with my long handled Ti spoon. If I ever need a fork in the woods (which I never have) I'll whittle a pair of chopsticks out of some twigs.
I don't like shooting down products, particularly ones I own, but this titanium spork is not a great design nor does it save much weight over a simple poly spoon and fork.
For starters, if you use one end and need to switch to the other, you will get dirty from constantly cleaning it/yourself.
Also, it's not really long enough. You can get a long/large version in the poly but not the titanium.
And the serrations are absolutely useless, making this a spoon/fork, except on opposite ends...
Lastly, compare the functionality of a simply cutlery set (S2S poly set is about $7). I often leave parts behind if I know I won't use them, and the whole set weights around 35-40g from memory. And they are cheap enough I don't worry about losing them.
Titanium for the sake of it is pointless.
Not that it prevented me from joining the drop, but the email about this drop said it was a dollar cheaper. Felt a little bait and switch. The advert says $15.99 and the "lowest price unlocked" is $16.99
I have several of these in the plastic version. They work OK, but I'm not entirely sold on the design.
My biggest gripe is that you're gripping the surface that you'll soon be eating with in your bare hands.
Now, when I'm out and about in the city, or camping, or in the woods, I'm often nowhere near a bathroom where I can wash my hand before I eat. So my hands are sometimes dirty or soiled. Touching an eating surface that I'm later going to be putting in my mouth doesn't seem like a good idea.
Given that one of the biggest vectors in getting sick is hand-to-mouth transmission of viruses and bacteria, I find this design fraught with risk.
When I'm eating with the spoon, I'm holding the head of the fork with my dirty hands. And vice versa. If I want to switch utensils and flip the spork to the other end - well, I might as well lick my dirty palms and hope I don't get sick a few days later.
Of course, there's hand sanitizer, but you're still touching and handling an eating surface while touching, moving, adjusting a myriad of other things during the eating process. I want to sanitize at the beginning of the meal, not constantly throughout it.
So this tool seems compact and handy, and the titanium is very cool, but I think the design has a major flaw.
The email states: Each spork weighs just 0.7 ounces, and you’ll get two for $15.99.
I'd buy them from Massdrop for that price, but the $21.99 is too close to the price elsewhere.
jrubelFalse advertising! Bait & Switch! Not cool...
(Note comment from 22W ago 'Felt a little bait and switch. The advert says $15.99 and the "lowest price unlocked" is $16.99')