Fork - Types of Forks

Types of Forks

• Asparagus fork
• Barbecue fork
• Beef fork

A fork used for picking up meat. This fork is shaped like a regular fork, but it is slightly bigger and the tines are curved outward. The curves are used for piercing the thin sliced beef.

• Berry fork
• Carving fork

A two-pronged fork used to hold meat steady while it is being carved. They are often sold with carving knives or slicers as part of a carving set.

• Cheese fork
• Chip fork

A two-pronged disposable fork, usually made out of sterile wood (though increasingly of plastic), specifically designed for the eating of chips (known as french fries in North America).

• Cocktail fork

A small fork resembling a trident, used for spearing cocktail garnishes such as olives.

• Cold meat fork
• Crab fork

A short, sharp and narrow three-pronged or two-pronged fork designed to easily extract meat when consuming cooked crab.

• Dessert fork (alternatively, pudding fork/cake fork in Great Britain)

Any of several different special types of forks designed to eat desserts, such as a pastry fork. They usually have only three tines and are smaller than standard dinner forks. The leftmost tine may be widened so as to provide an edge with which to cut (though it is never sharpened).

• Dinner fork
• Fish fork
• Fondue fork

A narrow fork, usually having two tines, long shaft and an insulating handle, typically of wood, for dipping bread into a pot containing sauce

• Fruit salad fork

A fork used which is used to pick up pieces of fruit such as grapes, strawberries, melon and other varies types of fruit.

• Garden fork
• Granny Fork
• Ice cream fork
• Knork

A utensil combining characteristics of a knife and a fork

• Lunch fork
• Meat fork
• Olive fork
• Oyster fork
• Pastry fork
• Pickle fork

A long handled fork used for extracting pickles from a jar, or an alternative name for a ball joint separator tool used to unseat a ball joint.

• Pie fork
• Pitchfork
• Relish fork
• Salad fork

Similar to a regular fork, but may be shorter, or have one of the outer tines shaped differently. Often, a "salad fork" in the silverware service of some restaurants (especially chains) may be simply a second fork; conversely, some restaurants may omit it, offering only one fork in their service.

• Spife

A utensil combining characteristics of a spoon and a knife

• Sporf

A utensil combining characteristics of a spoon, a fork and a knife

• Spork

A utensil combining characteristics of a spoon and a fork

• Tea fork
• Toasting fork

A fork, usually having two tines, very long metal shaft and sometimes an insulating handle, for toasting food over coals or an open flame