To feel the need for dessert forks in my life?

[NotLoveActually]

Just ate a slice of gooey chocolate birthday cake with one of my kids teeny forks. Lightbulb moment, I need dessert forks, like I want them in my life immediately! Text dh to tell him this, and ask if he sees any on his travels to buy them he basically told me to get over myself and stop buying crap we don't need so, AIBU?

YANBU

As well as cake forks, soup spoons are also a necessity - I hate being given a dessert spoon to eat soup with.

My boys have grown up with these as standard, and I have converted my husband to recognise the importance!

Can you lovely people help me out with these strange implements (inherited)? I'm guessing from left to right: sugar dredger for strawberries and cream, jam spoon?? and cold meat trident. But your guess is as good as mine!

Is the shell like one for oysters maybe?

I bought a cutlery set in the US and it came with pastry forks (was just an average set nothing special) and I although I probably wouldn't of bought them individually I am now converted. Plus they are good for little hands when they grow out of nursery type stuff

Could be, Flavia. It's hallmarked so silver I suppose. My Granny loved her tinkling teacups and fripperies, but she had a hard life and appreciated everything she owned. An oyster spoon wouldn't surprise me. Didn't they use to be poor people's food in Dickensian times?

Pastry forks are well common, as John Betjeman told you in How to Get On in Society.

Does anyone remember when Tesco did that 'collect vouchers for discount cutlery' thing?
I was thrilled with my cake forks but sadly they haven't come out of the boxes. Normal fork does the job.

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I have:

Jam Spoons ( like the ones in Jellys photo, the shell shaped spoon)
Butter knives and a tiny butter dish (dome cover)
Ceramic spoons - plain and ones with a bunny rabbit on the handle (for Easter)
Patry forks (of course)
Sporks - very handy
Long handles sundae spoons (or for latte)
Sugar spoons
An assortment of tiny spoons (Lakeland) no idea why

Assorted large serving spoons
Cake server/slicer
Small sauce ladles

No steak knives or fish cutlery

There seems to be two different sorts, pastry forks with three prongs and dessert forks with four prongs. i use a normal fork or teaspoon at home as we don't have either of the these.

Hmm, which to get...

I often see dessert forks (four prongs) pack of 6 along with a cake slice at Poundland.

We do have fish cutlery though, DH didn't know it was for fish, I did though because DPs used it when I was young. DH moaned the knives ruined the drawer inner with the pointy ends

Haggard, that's where my cake forks came from too!

I got cake forks from amazon recently:

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00JJM0262/ref=dp_olp_new_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=new

I have desert forks. They are from Ikea and I love them. However. I have now decided I need a pickled onion spike thing, anyone know were one may purchase such an item ? I am also in need of a melon baller.

Got them, love them, use them all the time. Tarts, puds and cake. YANBU

dessert

Well I want a nice big slice of chocolate cake now so if I can have my cake you can have your forks. Deal?

I am using a desert fork right now.

I love my desert forks, my grapefruit knives and my oyster shucker, which is exclusively used for opening cardboard packaging (IKEA, I'm looking at you with your excess glue...).

I have a melon baller that gathers dust in the drawer. But dessert forks wouldn't - I need them....

DSis 'gifted' me a springy thingy (like tongs with a press release) and little sharp spiky prong things for holding and eating snails

And a fecking tray with indentations for baking the aforementioned snails with garlic butter.

grannytomine deal- before I eat the whole fecking cake currently residing in my kitchen.

Oh jeez, the snail prongs have just put me off aforementioned cake

DH has a cheese knife that he won't let be used for anything else and if he sees me cutting cheese with anything else will ask why I'm not using the cheese knife.
We have bog standard cutlery but also a set of good cutlery that comes out for naice guests that has two sizes of knife fork and spoon and soup spoons.
Still, it's not the cutlery that gets me, it's the glassware. Whisky tumblers, wine glasses, champagne flutes, sherry glasses, pint glasses and a crystal tankard and brandy glasses. He has the nerve to call me middle class! I like to annoy him by drinking sherry in a pint glass.

Snail prongs? My first ever boak

DH has a cheese knife that he won't let be used for anything else and if he sees me cutting cheese with anything else will ask why I'm not using the cheese knife.
We have bog standard cutlery but also a set of good cutlery that comes out for naice guests that has two sizes of knife fork and spoon and soup spoons.
Still, it's not the cutlery that gets me, it's the glassware. Whisky tumblers, wine glasses, champagne flutes, sherry glasses, pint glasses and a crystal tankard and brandy glasses. He has the nerve to call me middle class! I like to annoy him by drinking sherry in a pint glass.

Snail prongs? My first ever boak