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16399674 No.16399674 [Reply] [Original]

why do gooks still insist on using these? I've seen some videos where they even wisk with it. It looks so fucking stupid to still be using chopsticks, there is literally no use for them.

>> No.16399677
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16399677

Stay mad Westerner.

>> No.16399858

I'm literally too retarded to use them. I even pick up sushi with my hands, or if it's a soup I'll drink it or use a spoon. Any noodle dish or entree will just be with a fork

>> No.16399870

>>16399674
I remember hearing somewhere that you shouldn't use metal utensils with raw fish because it could react and change the flavor. This may be total bullshit and would like to know if anybody knows if this the case.

>> No.16399874

>>16399870
the only other time i've ever heard someone use this argument is when they were talking about how you can't use a metal spoon for ice cream

there's no way it has any noticable effect on anything

>> No.16399880

>>16399674
>I've seen some videos where they even wisk with it
Lmao can confirm. My Chinese wife uses chopsticks to whisk eggs, flip bacon, stir coffee, and fucking everything else

>> No.16400070
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16400070

I actually fry with cooking chopsticks now.
They do a better job of flipping and retrieving delicate items than tongs.
They're a useful tool. Easier to wash than a whisk.

>> No.16400331

They're effectively extensions of your thumb and forefinger. If you think tongs are useful, you think chopsticks are useful, and they're ten times quicker to clean than a whisk.

>> No.16400381

>>16399870
>metal utensils on raw fish
how are you supposed to cut it then, a wood knife?

>> No.16400427

>>16399880
kys race traitor

>> No.16400438

>>16400070
>>16400331
1992 tiananmen square massacre

Begone Chinese botnet.

>> No.16400496

>>16400070
>>16400331
It's difficult communicating with someone who has a rudimentary grasp of english, Deng. How many years of shitposting do you have left before they'll let you see your wife and kid again?

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(You)

>> No.16400550

>>16399880
Same.
>>16400427
Stay mad.

>> No.16400571

>>16399674
You can pick up anything with them

>> No.16400620

The use spoons, knives, etc regularly as well OP, and depending on the area forks are adopted.

They more convenient than any of the three for picking up and handling bite-sized food, and most dishes account for this by making bite-sized solids.
I didn't grow up with them (got used to them living abroad), but I use them for whisking as well if it's not a very viscous item, since they are easy to clean and give you some control on how it's whisked.

The one thing I use them for that I have no excuse for is eating chips when I have some. Even Asians cringe at me for doing that, but I don't care for greasy hands.

>> No.16400653

>>16399674
I like em

>> No.16400761

>>16399674
>there is literally no use for them
Then they would likely never have been invented and wouldn't still be in widespread use now.

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>>16400620
I do the same thing, fuck what asian people think.

Since I eat chips seated at my computer for the most part and don't want to get my $300-dollar RGB-bedighted gamer keyboard all crusty, it's basically a necessity to do something of that sort.

The only other option that I explored before chopsticks was a small plate and using the natural stickiness of the human tongue to retrieve individual chips after raising the plate to my mouth. I affectionately referred to it as the "lizard technique" but I'm sure there's a more dignified name for it somewhere.

>> No.16400879

>>16399880
:O

>> No.16400880

>>16399674
In poor places it's still .ore effective to get pieces of wood than anything else

>> No.16400892

>>16399880
>>16400550
Based. Mine thinks it's cute when I try to use chopsticks.
>>16400427
U jelly?
>>16400438
>1992
Kek at least get it right

>> No.16400967

>>16400870
Come to think of it, thin chips are probably the one food item chopsticks clearly beat all other common utensils. Too brittle for a fork and usually too wide to effectively use with a spoon.
Basically any situation where you need to grab/pinch over a short distance, chopsticks will win out unless it's big enough for tongs. Maybe tweezers could be used with chips, since the action is pretty similar, but you'd have to be careful to avoid pinching the chip in two.

>> No.16400988
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16400988

One thing I've never gotten used to is metallic chopsticks like Koreans tend to use. They seem to have less grip than even cheap untextured plastic sticks. Pretty sure you get used to them, but if you're learning textured wooden ones are probably the best to start with.

>> No.16400995

>>16400988
Funny you say that, I was reading about different chopsticks in Asia the other day:
https://pogogi.com/differences-between-japanese-chinese-and-korean-chopsticks

>Why are [Korean chopsticks ]made of metal?
>In the early times, pure silver chopsticks were only used by the king as the silver would change its color if anyone attempted to poison the king’s food. Another reason why Koreans use metal to make chopstick is that because they use spoons to eat rice.

>> No.16400999

>>16400870
I never thought anyone else would discober the lizard technique. I asume people would find it weird.

>> No.16401003

>>16399870
I've heard that with salad too

>> No.16401027

>>16399870
yeah, that's a thing
or at least I've heard it said of iron, which is most of our metal

>> No.16401041
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>>16400999
It's definitely weird, but who cares if you're in the privacy of your home.
No utensils required, minimal attention required, AND you get to pretend to be a frog or chameleon or whatever. It's a win/win/win if you get over how retarded it certainly looks.

>> No.16401054

>>16399674
>there is literally no use for them.
If you're in a survival situation, I'd imagine that it's a lot easier to make chopsticks than a fork. They're also highly versatile and can basically double as a pair of pliers in a pinch as long as you don't need too much force. Good little grabbing implements. They have their uses.

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>>16399674

I used to hate chopsticks because the "proper way" hurts the fuck out of hand. I then found out that there are a fuck ton of acceptable ways to hold chopsticks and the weebs who insist there is only one proper way need to fuck right off.

Now I use them all the the time and prefer it when I am eating asian food.

FUCK THIS CAPTCHA

>> No.16401166

>>16399674
>t.btfo by a literal 2 year old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJltu-yKbmM

>> No.16401185

Chopsticks are based for cooking. It's like being able to just grab things and move them around in a hot pan without burning your fingers.

>> No.16401222

seems to work, not sure what the problem is, are you sure you dont just have an aversion to things you didnt grow up with

>> No.16401249

>>16401222
he doesn't, he just has an aversion to things that hes too dumb and fat-fingered to be able to use

>> No.16401312

>>16399870
The chef cuts it for you.
>But how does he cut it?
Not my problem.

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>>16399674
Here are ones more suited for you, baby boy.

>> No.16401329

cry more, neckbeard dookie lord.

>> No.16401345

>>16400999
I have seen it and used it for popcorn, more than anything. Anything small, light, and dry would work, though.

>> No.16401363

>>16400870
I like using lizard tecjnoque with popcorn.

>> No.16401496

>>16400988
They do a little trolling, that's all.

>> No.16401523

>>16401058
>the "proper way" is the most efficient and fastest. I wonder if you hold your pencils the proper way as well. Many people just get used to a less efficient way and learning the proper way takes too much practice

>> No.16401799

weird how many weebs there are on /ck/

>> No.16401810

>>16400995
I guess it makes more sense if you're using a spoon by default.
The king thing is just about as dumb as using real porcelain for dishes because it was valuable before mass production.

>> No.16401815

>>16399880
Laowai

>> No.16401819
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>>16401523
>I wonder if you hold your pencils the proper way as well.
I have dysgraphia, and I'll get welts on my hand if I use the proper way. It doesn't even improve my handwriting.
It's not that my fingers are weak so much as I only have decent force control if I'm focusing on the individual fingers, so the pencil/pen is digging in. Bad wiring I guess.

In the same way, this method works best for me when using chopsticks. Less painful.

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>>16400381
ceramic

>> No.16401836

>>16400988
the fact they're often flat throws me off as well

>> No.16401843
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16401843

Sorry chopsticks are big boys only. You can use crutchsticks instead

>> No.16401845

>chopsticks
>can't chop vegetables

>> No.16401846

>>16401843
should I assume someone is an alcoholic with the shakes if they use those?

>> No.16401851

>>16401846
Plenty of other things give you shaky hands, including old age.

>> No.16401856

>>16401846
It's a training gear. We don't give a shit how cripples eat. You can't grip a single bean with chopsticks if you don't practice the proper form, anyone over 20 here were beaten the shit out of and banned from lunch in preschool if you can't pick 100+ beans with 100% success rate. The irony is millitary don't use chopsticks because conscripted soldiers kept kill themselves with it.
t.gook(south)

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>>16401856
This is how we eat in millitary btw for the discipline's sake, so please be nice to your korean boywife. They've been through some shits.

>> No.16401871

>>16401856
>The irony is millitary don't use chopsticks because conscripted soldiers kept kill themselves with it.
do they impale their brains through the eyeballs or puncture their necks or something? that's insane. why can't they sharpen a random object and bleed themselves out?

>> No.16401876

>>16401871
You are thinking of prison weapon. Or a suicide with gun. No, we just swallow a chopstick in a hope to die or leave the facillity for hospital. It's a traditional&historical technique in modern korea to escape concentration camps(we had a lot)

>> No.16401885

>>16401876
Would they give particular leniency in that case, or is it just because the damage tends to be enough to actually get expelled without a serious maiming?
While death is a possibility I've got no idea how your body would handle trying to pass that.

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>>16401876
>No, we just swallow a chopstick in a hope to die or leave the facillity for hospital. It's a traditional&historical technique in modern korea to escape concentration camps(we had a lot)
Korea are you okay?

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>>16401888
>Children raped daily for years
>forced to pick maggots out of open wounds
>watch inmates being tortured and stamped to death
>Thousands ’rounded up off the streets ahead of the 1988 Seoul Olympics’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3545761/
Kids invented choptick swallowing all for you guys to not see any orphans during olympic, you knows how annoying brown brats begging and pick-pocketing to tourists.

>> No.16401904

>>16401885
Ikr? Silly kids didn't know how to hold breath for suicide.

>> No.16401906

>>16401902
>tfw best friend is a brown korean adoptee from that time period
I hope his siblings didn't suicide
also why are some koreans dark brown anyways?

>> No.16401909

>>16400988
Jap here. Cant use em for shit. They might as well be a torture device for starving people lmao

>> No.16401915

Yikes. Koreans remind of Canadians where they think their shit doesn't stink. Keep harping on their neighbors when their backyard is filled with garbage.

>> No.16401916

>>16401906
Most of koreans were adopted in a human trafficking scheme anyway like Jolie's kids lol
It's a tiny land with 'one nationality' but we are actually extremly mixed(raped).

>> No.16401923

>>16401915
You don't split a country without extremly fucked up CIA interruptions. Next time you see an american girl who like kpop, please throw all these hatefacts for the poor souls.

>> No.16401939

>>16399674
My friend’s dad was a chef at a high end Chinese place near us and he taught me alot about cooking and only used chopsticks, a cleaver and a small pairing knife

>> No.16401968
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16401968

>>16401939
>high end Chinese place

>> No.16401976

>>16401968
What does Xi Jinping eat?

>> No.16401994

>>16401968
High end Cantonese dishes are usually great. Though so is low-end.

>> No.16401999

>>16401976
McDonald's

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>>16400870
>lizard technique

I've done this when I was at the height of known laziness.

>> No.16402008

>>16402001
You weren't lazy you were depressed

>> No.16402017

>>16401916
so where do the brown people come from?
he took one of those meme DNA tests and got 99% Korea and 1% Japanese

>> No.16402142

>>16402008
Not him but if I'm generally most depressed when I'm forced to work on things I don't want to do for extended periods of time. Which has been every one of the last 9 jobs I've done, and virtually anything I've done for family (still do it, just hate it).
I guess I'm not rainbows and butterflies, but my best days are spent going on mountain walks or on the porch with a book.
t. does lizard technique all the time.

>> No.16402171

>>16402142
Why does autism do this to us. It makes me so angry when my mom gives me a list of things to do for her. Whether it's building furniture she bought online, or cleaning her basement out because she wants everything to go to goodwill, or detailing her car. I mean I moved out here to help her because she's becoming crippled. But we don't live together and does she really need to remodel her entire house at 77 with severe arthritis? All she does is sit around watching HGTV and if she isn't being nosey about her neighbors she's coming up with busy work to do that doesn't need to be done.
I don't mind helping her, but when I go over to do one thing and she has 5 other things she didn't tell me about that take me another two hours its frustrating. Then she always wants to go to dinner afterwards.

>> No.16402174

>>16402171
I legitimately feel for you on that one.
Thanks for being there for her, at least. Even if it isn't everything, it certainly means a lot to her.

>> No.16402181

>>16402174
I know but I could do without her standing there giving me the play by play. I installed a handicap assist bar in her garage yesterday and got a lecture about drilling pilot holes. I was like it's drywall going screws going into drywall and studs. This is literally how they built this garage its fine. Oh well could be worse I guess

>> No.16402231

>>16402017
Same koreans, with varied skin color. I know this is an unacceptable concept but when you classify everyone's dna as korean anyone becomes korean

>> No.16403030

my japanese wife thinks its so cute when i try to use these lol!

my wife is Japanese

>> No.16403092

>>16399674
I use forks for eating. But whisking with chopsticks is much more efficient than forks

>> No.16403155

>>16403092
>much more efficient than forks
you know what else is more efficient for whisking? a fucking whisk.

>> No.16403175

>>16399674
They think it makes then more skilled and superior, but what its two sticks picking at food

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>>16403030
>tfw my Chinese ex got pissed off with me struggling to use them. Instead of showing me she asked if I'm 6 and got me a spoon.

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>>16399674
pic related

>> No.16403549

>>16400870
>"lizard technique" but I'm sure there's a more dignified name for it somewhere.

There is nothing dignified about this anon

>> No.16403604

>>16400870
These are the weirdos critiquing my dishes

>> No.16404140

>>16399677
Go suck on a nuclear bomb, chink

>> No.16404150

>>16399674
they're actually pretty great for whisking. I fried some stuff last night and used them to stir everything while it was frying and also to help toss stuff in my wire spoon thingie to take it ou

>> No.16404158

>>16404140
At least get the fucking name right you bellend.

>> No.16404160

>>16404158
No

>> No.16404190

>>16399858
You're a true northerner.
Just because someone suggest a way for eating food; Doesn't mean that you should do any other way than what your instincts say.

>> No.16404997

>>16404190
True, and same goes for people who institutionally use chopsticks, or their hands.
It can be more efficient though.

>> No.16405346

>>16400995
>>16401810
This is a myth, the reason they used metal chopsticks is because there is an abundance of metal on the korean peninsula.

>> No.16405348

>>16405346
Was there not an abundance of wood?

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>>16405348
I'm sure there is but there's an actually absurd amount of metal deposits on the Korean Peninsula.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_North_Korea

>> No.16405374

>>16405367
Point taken
I guess if it actually hits a cost low enough for farmers to have a set or several, I can see it becoming instilled as the default.

>> No.16405382

>>16399674
the absolute best for flipping individual slices of bacon

>> No.16405383

>>16405382
what, fingers too good for you?

>> No.16405385

>>16401915
Are korean's actually like this? They are only a generation or two passed being savage dog people who ate anything that moved. This can be seen in their livestreamers that eat still living animals.

>> No.16405396

>>16399674
For most foods, chopsticks are horrible utensils. That said, there are certain dishes I prefer them over a fork. Say, for example, thing strips of meat with some rice and onions and shit. It's really easy to use them to wrap the meat around some rice and veg for a perfect bite.

I'm a fag who's favorite cooking/eating utensil is a handy dandy utility knife I buy from military surplus shops though, so what do I know. I use these fuckers for everything.

>> No.16405407

>>16405383
i don't like burning my fingers

>> No.16405410

>>16405382
I use tongs.

>> No.16405411

>>16400870
I do the lizard technique but with sunflower seeds. Although at that point it might as well be called the bird technique.

>> No.16405412

Speaking of Korean shitflingers, their chopsticks are pretty rad. Metal and thin, which allows to cut food into smaller pieces. I'd prefer those and a spoon over a fork about half the time, depending of course on what I'm eating. Takes some gettung used to though, my father had me practice picking up icecubes with them. After you can crack an icecube, you're all set.

Nowhere close to beating a good knife though.

>> No.16405417

>>16405410
good for you, just know that there are better bacon flipping kitchen utensils out there, like chopsticks

>> No.16405481

>>16399674
chopsticks are a girl magnet. if you eat with sticks, girls will like you.

>> No.16405489

>>16405481
I can attest to this. Went out to dinner with some dumb-ass chubby white bitch and her parents and she and her mother were impressed with how I ate with chopsticks. "You're so cool, Anon..."
Only got to smash once, but it was worth it. You want bitches? Eat with chopsticks in front of them.

>> No.16405552

>>16399674
Every race on earth developed the basic spoon and fork except gooks.

>> No.16405553

>>16399874
apparently if you us a copper spoon it does change the flavor. but i don't like the taste.

>> No.16405557

>>16405489
Boomer story. Young women today expect you to be able to use chopsticks, but are not impressed when you can. You lose points by not being able to and gain none by being able to.

>> No.16405570

>>16405557
Ah, fair enough. Haven't dated in over a decade.

>> No.16405589

>>16405489
I taught myself how to use chopsticks with a bowl of popcorn when I was 16. People who consider their use to be a skill are retarded, and so are people who look down on people who can't use them

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>>16400870
I keep forgetting to buy chopsticks and the lizard technique doesn't work if you're playing a fast paced game so I usually just wipe the grease/cheese dust on my pants, shirt, or underwear

>> No.16406402

>>16400870
I feel as if we are reptile brothers now. When I use the lizard technique from now on I will think of you all.

>> No.16406497

>>16399674
It's one tool for everything, all you need are chopsticks for most asian foods. You drink soup from the bowl. Use your fuckin brain for a change

>> No.16406578

The only acceptable time to use chopsticks is when you go to an asian restaurant. Any other time you look like a pretentious faggot.

>> No.16406594

>>16400988
Metal chopsticks are a fucking meme. They're slippery, the weight is never right and they feel uncomfortable when they warm up to your hands. Fuck these things. Give me wood or polycarbonate any other day.

>> No.16406808

>>16406594
My feelings exactly.

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>>16406594
>>16400995
>>16405346
Regarding metallic chopsticks usage in Korea, I asked a friend on the matter.
Take it with whatever grain of salt you normally take.

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16406942

Utensils are a waste of money. I just eat with my hands instead.

>> No.16406958

>>16406942
low test faggots the lot of you. I just bury my face in my plate and inhale

>> No.16407040

>>16399674
Close-minded Ignorance and Prejudice: The Post

>> No.16407230

>>16406958
Every foods have their natural plate. Surface.

>> No.16408847

>>16406891
We should teach the gooks to conform to the global standard, then.

>> No.16409797

>>16406891
The problem with Korean chopsticks is not that they are metal but that they often have a rectangular cross section where you grip them. The fuckers are very uncomfortable to use unlike square and circle cross sectioned ones seen everywhere else.

>> No.16409801

>>16405410
chopsticks are better

>> No.16410374

>>16400620
>The one thing I use them for that I have no excuse for is eating chips when I have some.
I'm Asian and I do that. It's all good.

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>>16399674
You are a retard, but there is one thing about asian eating utensils that I never understood. These thick, heavy spoons are so fucking hard to eat with, I hate it. Some are even deeper than pic related, it's difficult to shovel the broth and equally difficult to shove it in your mouth without annoying slurping and spilling it all over the place. Am I doing something wrong?

>> No.16410856

>>16399674
>>16410727
>Billions of people use a utensil everyday
>Struggle with it
>They're the idiots and not me for not knowing how to use a utensil

>> No.16410903

>>16410727
have you tried slowing down you fat fuck?

>> No.16411014

>>16410903
I am not fat, I was exaggerating. Sipping broth off these spoons is sloppy and you usually must keep them at a specific angle to not spill it all to the sides.
>>16410856
Sure, but in Europe this type of spoon is a gimmick and we have different types of spoons that work wonders. This is not the case of chopsticks serving a different purpose to let's say a fork, it's a literal worse kind of spoon.

>> No.16411053

>>16410856
Correct.

>> No.16411441

>>16399858
sushi can be picked up with hands. is acceptable.

>> No.16412658

>>16401915
You shouldn't have skipped English class ESLtard...

>> No.16412663

>>16401320
thanks!!!