I explicitly purchased identical cutlery and gave away all my old mismatched cutlery.

Got a butter knife that looks the same but weighs nothing. Drives me nuts.

Taking this post as a platform to rally against cutlery that isn't fashioned from a single piece of metal but has a useless metal or plastic handle. When you take them out of the dishwasher, a pool of warm, stagnant , vaguely soap-smelling water will pour out onto your wrist and wet your sleeve and my week is ruined.

For the record, I haven't experienced this in years but I carry the trauma.

Laughed, then saw the community… uh oh

Mine is a butter knife. I had a poor quality and overpriced meal at a restaurant and stole it in revenge. When I got home and started using it I realised that every single thing about that restaurant would always be atrocious and nothing would ever make it OK to eat there.

I bought us a nice, thick , chromatic set.

kids lost a spoon here and there and now... we have this hodge podge of shit silverware.

when grabbing for me, I reach for the chromatic set every time.

the other ones are mostly too sharp around the edges, too heavy, or just too flimsy.

That's bizarrely specific yet accurate. For me it's a spoon, but only because I somehow lost every single fork I own and had to buy a new, matching set.

One day my wife had enough and threw out all the mismatched cutlery, so now we have everything 100% matched.

I married the right woman.

It's a proportions thing. There's a very specific size and shape of fork that I like, and it shouldn't have decorations on it. Just stamped sheet steel.

That bastard right there!

It's usually a handle issue

Damn you guys are making me doubt my sanity way too much with these posts…

I have 2 different sized spoons that don't match the rest. I can't use either of them, even if it's the only utensil I need. I also have no idea why I don't just get rid of them instead of making sad panda face every time I accidentally grab one of them...

I don't have a single metal fork in my drawer because I have some kinda weird issue where metal cutlery touching each other or my teeth makes me want to die :(

I don't understand people that like big forks and big spoons like why

That fork has too long prongs and they curve... inwards. Brrr...

Loving the engagement in this post btw

We call ours “special fork”.

Mine is a spoon that is different from all the other… and it is specifically for cat food.

Does it count if by 28 I have one fork I like and the rest I only tolerate? My preferred fork is a plain one, not unlike fourth from left while all the others are more textured than any of those present here. I'm used to them from having forks like that all my life but I like the simple one most.

Fsck that fork specifically

Someone put a tiny camping cutlery set in the drawer. I balk everytime I accidentally grab the baby fork.

If I had to use a teaspoon as a fork I'd hate it too.

I have a compulsion... At every restaurant I go to, I inspect their fork. Specifically, I check to see if the tines are aligned. If they aren't, the first thing I do is start bending them so that they are aligned. I do it subconsciously if I'm by myself. But in polite company, often I cover my compulsion by making some sort of joke about being a food blogger or similar.

Haha it's true. I've always had hand me downs and I finally got the first time bought a set. It's pretty glorious. Side note, definitely hammy downs in my head)

i have a single fork that has 3 prongs that I think I got from a thrift store and i just hate using it cuz the tines are too far apart. Yet I've kept it for a decade

I only have one left out of the set that I like from my parents’ first marriage.

Mine is a three pronged one 🤮

Throw it out?

I don't know why this is a universal feeling.

Anyway, managed to almost get rid of my Wrong Fork last week.

Report: I'm in this image and I don't like it.

A couple of years ago I threw out all my old basic cutlery (forks, spoons, butter knives etc.) and bought a whole new matched set of good quality. It cost less than I imagined. Never had a single ounce of regret, I love having a nice matched set and not having to dig through to get out a good pair for dinner.

The old stuff got donated to a local club, who were happy to have it in their big pot of cutlery.

I've disowned that plate. Its only duty is to support the hot plates that come out of the microwave. It's become the Cinderella of my kitchen.