![]() ![]() At an informal meal, the seafood fork is used as needed. Sometimes the tines of the seafood fork rest in the bowl of the soup spoon and the handle is angled to the right. It is placed to the right of the oval soup spoon. At a multi-course formal dinner or luncheon, the seafood fork is the fourth fork laid on the table. The seafood fork is used in formal and informal dining. The purpose of a seafood fork is to spear seafood. The seafood fork, also known as a cocktail fork is a small, narrow, three-pronged fork made with short tines and a long handle it is approximately 4½ to 5½ inches in length. The pastry fork is used in informal dining, although it is not essential it is not used in formal dining where two dessert utensils are presented. To provide leverage in cutting, the left tine is often notched. The pastry fork looks similar to a salad fork, but it is narrower and slightly shorter, approximately 5 to 5½ inches long. The spoon part is used to scoop and eat soft ice cream, and the tines to cut, spear, and lift firm bites to the mouth. The icecream fork features a wide shallow bowl with three tines at the tip. The dessert fork is used in formal and informal dining. The left tine is extra wide to provide leverage in cutting firm dessert, such as baklava. It is not made as part of a flatware set. The dessert fork is a specialized fork approximately 6 to 7 inches in length, that looks similar to a salad fork, only a little narrower. It is also used for appetizer courses other than seafood, such as pate. The salad fork is used in formal and informal dining. ![]() For additional strength, the second and third tines of the salad fork are occasionally connected by a rod. To provide leverage when cutting thick veins of lettuce or broad vegetables, the salad fork is made with an extra wide left tine that is sometimes grooved. The tines of salad forks are flatter and slightly broader than those of a dinner fork, and the utensil is approximately 6 inches long. Although the fruit fork is used in formal and informal dining, Americans tend to eat cut fruit with fingers, and the fruit fork is used more often in Europe. ![]() The fruit fork is made with narrow tines and a long slender handle it is approximately 6¼ inches in overall length. Because the lobster shell is steadied in the hand and the lobster fork is held in the other hand, the utensil is used only in informal dining. It is made with one long narrow tine that ends with two hooks or with a long, narrow center tine and two hooked tines on either side both shapes are used to spear lobster served in a shell. The lobster fork is approximately 6¾ to 8 inches long. The luncheon fork is approximately 6¾ inches long, a size in proportion with a luncheon plate, and found more often in older sets of flatware. To provide leverage in separating fish from the body, the fish fork features an extra wide left tine, and an optional notch, grooved to fit over the bones. The fish fork is approximately 7¼ to 7¾ inches in length and is used in formal and informal dining. The American-size dinner fork, or place size, is approximately ½ inch shorter than continental size and is used in the informal table setting. The continental-size dinner fork is slightly larger than the American-size dinner fork. It is used to eat the main course at all formal and informal meals. The dinner fork measures about 7 inches in length. Forks with curved tines, such as the oyster fork, are made to follow the shape of the shell.Īlthough flatware is made in continental and American lengths, the American size, also called place size, is the most popular dimension.Forks with a wide left tine and an optional notch, such as a salad fork, fish fork, dessert fork, and pastry fork, provide extra leverage when cutting food that normally does not require a knife.Forks wrought with long tapered tines, such as a dinner fork, are made to spear pieces of food, such as steak.The shapes of the fork tines accommodate particular foods. In addition, there are an array of specialized forks: A set of flatware typically contains five forks: ![]()
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