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Question Spork ?
Looking at these spork thingies.

Has anyone used one are they any good or does all your soup spill out ?

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Looking at these spork thingies.

Has anyone used one are they any good or does all your soup spill out ?

Any comments:confused1:
I've got one, works fine, fool proof (so it suits me!) - take smaller mouth fulls!

Actually, my only doubt is that if I lose it - that's both the fork and the spoon gone!!!
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Who's sponsoring your trip NASA because that's who invented the spork?

Right how and you spread things with a spork its blooming hard, and what if you need to put coffee in a brew while your eating? Just take a knife fork spoon and lightweight metal chopsticks and a small military tin opener (good for all sorts of things). The chop sticks came in handy on my trip in Vietnam as they just put the used ones back into a glass of water on the table yuck, and have many uses.

The above doesn't take up much room you can fit them in your mess tins also take a metal Crusader mug with you to, always handy for making a brew, shaving from etc.

It's ok to try and pack as light as you can but you draw the point at what you need to loose, I like to be efficient as possible with the kit you take with you.
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Cool Nasa
Two good replies I think i will give one a go at home and see if I like it.

How much did Nasa invest in Spork development I wonder didnt the Space pen cost them 12 million to develop and the Rusians just used pencils which met the same criteria.
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Sp0rk?
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Please just go and get a loaf of bread (non cut) and some butter and ungrated cheese, just the kind of things you will be eating on the road right.

Now make a Sandwich, do you get my point the NASA teams invented it for the moon missions where they eat pre-pulped up meals from little plastic bags.

Knife Fork Spoon and Metal Chopsticks, light weight small to pack and handy as hell.

Spork = NOT for Big Strong Hairy Bummed Bikers like the rest of us.

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I love my spork!
I have the sport, a spoon for cooking in the pan and my pocket knife.
I tear my bread anyway and butter it with the spoon or any of the other above.

A hell, when i'm hungry i dont care and use whatever i got!
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Wink Sandwiches
Mine looks like this:-

Find Spork - Excellent Piece of Field Kit on eBay within Field Gear, Surplus Equipment, Militaria, Collectables (end time 11-Nov-07 18:56:56 GMT)

Eating bread: tear the loaf in to two bits - scoop out the soft inner with both hands and eat it - if you are still hungry, then stuff the lump of cheese between the outer bread halves and you have two sandwiches, also eaten by the hands/teeth. Don't bother with the butter.
For chip butties, buy chips instead of cheese and proceed as above.
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Ah so let me see if I have this right you have...

1 * Pen KNIFE
1 * Spork (Half Fork Half Spoon)
1 * Spoon

So when I said KNIFE FORK SPOON I have said 'exactly' what you are carrying, I have a Machette at a pinch I can cut my bread with that or I can use my Hand Axe I also carry a decent field knife.

Anyone that's travelled and cooked for themselves for more then a week will carry a Knife Fork and Spoon Can Opener, Salt and Pepper and maybe Hot Sauce (saved me from tasting some horrible food in the past), EVERY Army in the World issues them for use at meal times so they can't all be wrong can they?

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My god man ! they'll take you're British passport off you if they know you're leaving the country without correct cutlery. Try these from attleborough Accessories. KFS and a cruet. All you then need is a soup spoon and a fish knife and you're set for anything. Remember, there are standards to uphold abroad.

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Hi ya Walkabout,

Try eating a Steak with a spork

The most entertaining thing I've cooked in the field was Chicken with Small Baked Jacket Potatoes and Carrots even made Bisto, all in an earth oven using a Crusader cup and a mess tin (Germany in 1985 while on exercise).

I've also used the METAL Chopsticks as a make shift Grill to keep stuff out of the fire, like Chicken and Pork Chops they also make a good Kebab rack.

The best way to pack (10 Years in the Army 4th Batt. Royal Green Jackets) is to look at your kit, and see if it can

1. be used for more then one job (versatile)
2. survive a good fall, so pretty tough
3. easy and cheap to replace
4. be used again and again
5. be used in all Climates

If it and meet the above then pack it if not then it's not worth its weight in your pack. Now if you’re driving or riding then the weight isn't so much of a factor so bring a few luxuries.

My mess kit is as follows

1 * Knife (peeling chopping cuting)
1 * fork (eating with and poking stuff with to see if it's cooked)
1 * spoon (coffee, food, stiring)
1 * Metal Chop sticks (grill, kebab)
1 * Metal Crusader Cup (boiling food, drinking and eating from they even do lids for them now)
1 * Trangia Frying Pan (it's also a lid for frying and simmering)
1 * Trangia Bowl (matches the lid, also boiling and eating from)
1 * Little tongs for turning meat and taking things off the stove
1 * Salt & Pepper
1 * Hot Sauce
and Drinks/Soup kit

and my Favorite a Coleman Sportster Stove that burns Petrol.

If you can find anyone with a better thought out set up that you can buy on a tight budget then let me know as I'm always open to new ideas.
And its all held in a Blackhawk Gasmask Pouch, so it doesn't get lost.
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Hi ya Walkabout,

Try eating a Steak with a spork
Now, try baking a steak with my light weight pan set! Thats never going to happen either
so when i got a steak i'm in a restorant i guess..
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I would back Juddaredd up, his packing list is pretty much exactly what I would recommend too, so he has pretty much negated this post, making me as useful as a soup fork.

But one must remember - 'if you can't hack it - be a jacket.'

Happy riding.

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Hi Joel,

No your not a waste of bandwidth matey

It's nice to get good verification as feedback, you know when you ride you look for the people with the same kit as yours and see if they like theirs as much as you like yours, it's just to make sure you have the best stuff.

I normally go right back to basics if in doubt and then build on the foundations that I know work, and actually living the army life teaches you a thing or two about what you carry. So forget the Spork and go for the things that are of best use, build up a small mess kit like mine and then see if it works for you if it does then great, if not then alter it to suit.

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Spork and a pen knife perfect for me

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Eating bread: tear the loaf in to two bits - scoop out the soft inner with both hands and eat it - if you are still hungry, then stuff the lump of cheese between the outer bread halves and you have two sandwiches, also eaten by the hands/teeth. Don't bother with the butter.
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