I often see them in the op shops and think pffft, what a useless item. As if you couldn't use a saucer or whatever you have at hand while you're cooking. Making bolognese tonight I just rested the spoon on the side of the can.
@lloydslights wrote:Nana's had both a guard and a "leg" for tines pointing downwards leaving the guard on the top to rest the knife upon. Your fork guard is for hubby's purpose and becomes a natural "rest" following carving with tines pointed upwards.
However, with occupational health and safety rules, isn't a cook/chef encouraged to cut away from oneself.
DEB
yeah, but when sliding the knife down the fork, on the upstroke - to stop the back of the knife hitting your fingers?
I just remember seeing it on my grandma's fork - never asked what iot was for, and that was the best kind of thought I could come up with - couldn't see why it was needed - figured it was an "old fashioned thing" I spose?
never occurred to me that everyones forks were the same (my trident carving forks don't have that bit, and they were bought in 1987) "back then" never gave it all that much thought at all LOL
was just one of those things.
Well, Crikey that might be your favourite colour. But it looks, to me, totally superfluous as a spoon/spatula rest. 
A bit of a challenge for the "washerer-upperer" after the food had "set".
Couldn't any juices that collect on the "tongue" not necessarily drip towards the throat, but forward onto the countertop?
DEB
@lloydslights wrote:Well, Crikey that might be your favourite colour. But it looks, to me, totally superfluous as a spoon/spatula rest.
Couldn't any juices that collect on the "tongue" not necessarily drip towards the throat, but forward onto the countertop?
DEB
I dunno - just bought em to look at - was looking for red utencil holders when I found that
I never thought of it as a spoon rest till I saw Sin's post
just a quirky holder thing
This is like my grandma's carving fork
that's the sticky outy thing I was talking about
just got this pic off eBay
@lloydslights wrote:Well, Crikey that might be your favourite colour. But it looks, to me, totally superfluous as a spoon/spatula rest.
Couldn't any juices that collect on the "tongue" not necessarily drip towards the throat, but forward onto the countertop?
DEB
and not much different to any other slotted spoon - just the holes are in a quirky formation
