Would you use your own classy gents folder at a fancy restaurant?

not2sharp said:
I think this thread points to a possible market in high end personal tableware. How many would be willing to buy and carry personal eating utensils; not folding knives, but actual individual dinning sets?

At least you would know your equipment is sharp, comfortable to use and clean.

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Be a welcome change to the overbuilt, supersteel, kill em all, tacticool craze of late.
 
I just use whatever the restaurant provides. I'm too hungry to worry about what I'm cutting with: the stuff they provide always gets the job done fine

No need to dirty my blade if its not necessary

At home is different story. I use my pocket knives all the time
 
I enjoy using my knives at restaurants...just adds to the satisfaction I feel when I realize that my sharpening job is great.
A sharp knife will never slam into a ceramic plate and dull. Dull knives will tho. Sharp knives just glide, and you stop it at the opportune time.
Gonna use my knives every chance I get.
:)
 
Half the time I just use the edge of my fork to cut stuff lol

I just got an idea. I should hit the edge of one of my forks on the diamond stones and put a knife like edge on it.

Do both sides: double edge!
 
There were times when I also used just a spoon or just a fork...

Also, in some restaurants they slice your steak before serving it to you. And judging by slices I saw - they did it with very sharp knife.

Other times it was sufficcient to use the knife restaurant provided. Some of them even had fairly sharp knives.

And if there was market for personal tableware - we would most likley see CPM-3V forks and spoons really fast. And tactical tableware would also likley appear LOL
 
Cold steel recon fork in dlc coating for stealth night eating for soldiers in the field.

Lynn gouging out pig eyeballs on solid proof dvd with it

Show the fork holding 1000 pounds hanging on the end
 
Crikeyyy said:
Cold steel recon fork in dlc coating for stealth night eating for soldiers in the field.

Lynn gouging out pig eyeballs on solid proof dvd with it

Show the fork holding 1000 pounds hanging on the end
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This actually cracked me up right now and people are looking at me :D

But something does tell me soldiers would rather use that than standard plastic MRE sporks hahaha.

I used to work on construction site and would often order delivery.
With delivery I'd usually get plastic knife and fork, or spork sometimes.
Those were of such bad quality that they'd come deformed because heat of the food caused them to melt (despite the fact that my food would be cold by the time I got it).
Ironically to reply to your post, Recon Tanto was the knife I had with me on construction site :D
And yes, I used it on my food because plastic ones just kept snapping.
We all used our own knives to eat with, some even used dirty boxcutters. :D
 
I do it all the time if the restaurant's cutlery isn't up to the job. Even in high end places the steak knives are usually cheap stuff bought in bulk, ran through dishwashers over and over and never sharpened. Too bad for them if it hurts their feelings seeing me use a Swiss Army on their steaks.
 
[Remember when men were men...] and relied on themselves to get everything done that came down their way.
Seems we are way off that trend today. I don't judge but I will just keep on treading on my own personal path.
And to get back on meat : who eats only meat so tender it can be downsized with a fork ? Never got some Black Angus rib steak ? That's some tasty meat but it's muscle ! Needs a sharp knife, I tell's ya.
 
herisson said:
[Remember when men were men...] and relied on themselves to get everything done that came down their way.
Seems we are way off that trend today. I don't judge but I will just keep on treading on my own personal path.
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Nowadays, the hipsters have beards and skinny jeans, wear plaid, and have designer watches and they probably carry some fancy French knife design that is cool to look at but dulls after use.....for looks not actual use. Saw some really strange knives advertised on a news website, advertising I guess. Maybe it all started when when I saw people wearing knit stockings during the summer, never understood that one....affected the little gray cells (to quote Hercule Poirot). Or seeing the guy on the motorcycle with the one strap he slings his Day pouch over his shoulder as puts in a key to start it up. At least we have some Duluth commercials to remind us when we had more testerone when we were younger. A cool idea was mentioned earlier that we should have a set of tactical utensils that can serve all when going out to a restaurant or a Hobo set. I think that would help us reclaim some of our manliness. I can hear Tim Taylor grunting now. (Sorry, been holding it in awhile and we are now encouraged to express our feelings. All in fun.) :p

So, yes, I would use my own knife at a restaurant.......if I don't think my wife would give me the evil eye first. :D Now a Hobo set would be a cool stocking stuffer too.
 
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All in fun : do how you feel. I don't judge the "man bun" crowd (although, I do, tsss...). However, being a man has nothing to do with carrying or not a pocket knife of some kind. I have been pleasantly surprised by men going a very different path from mine. As an example, my Pa resists fiercely carrying a pocket folder (why ???), but that's how it is. It's still the man I respect the most in this life.
 
Kids today, with the crazy way they wear their hair, and don't get me started on that noise they call music...

Sorry, just channeling my late grandmother. :rolleyes:

The other evening I was served a kabob of roasted antelope loin served on a cranberry reduction. With a fork and butter knife. I could have asked the server to bring me a steak knife, but I wanted to eat it while it was still warm. I used my pocket knife and no one noticed or cared.
 
I use knives that don't have pocket clips like my benchmade proper or one of my more traditional knives like a nice old timer with a white bone handle.
Unless it's a friday then I'm fixed blade friday all the way screw etiquette
 
I do what I want. I try not to make an ass of myself, but, no one has ever called me classy either. I guess it's a moot point since I don't go to fancy restaurants.
 
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