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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Do you use chopsticks at home when you cook for yourself?
Of course if you cook something that is possible to eat with sticks
About 90% of the time, because I mostly cook Chinese-style when I'm at home. The usual chopped vegetables and eggs fried in a wok kinda thing, you know. However when I come across one of those little ovens or a George Foreman those days will be over!
Yep, because the ingredients are so much easier to find, I mostly do stir-fried dishes, and chopsticks are easier for that. If I cook a roast or something in the oven I will use a fork and knife.
Nope, but that is because I dont cook....
However, depending on what I got for takeout, I may or may not use chopsticks....
Yes, I use chopsticks most of the time, except when I am eating spaghetti or chicken meat on the bone, sausage & sliced roast potatoes (Chicken Scarpariello ala Stefano -----> Sicily).
after the actor found yellow water overnight from disposable chopsticks , i think i will bring my own to restaurants from now on
I eat my scrambled eggs and toast with chopsticks. (Obviously I mean just the eggs though)
I do sometimes. I quite enjoy using chopsticks, and am good at using them.
If I cook for myself only, than never use the chopsticks, coz the food is not made for using them . I can use them well, but not interested in using them when no need to.
Never, I only used them at restaurants and at the girlfriends families place due to they don't have forks.
Yes, whenever I eat something even vaguely Asian. In China, we ate pretty much everything with chopsticks - french toast, pork chops, lollies,
I still suck pretty hard at using chop sticks, but I've come to prefer them for certain western dishes like non-spaghetti pastas and salads
As a two-fisted cook at home, I still use a spatula & wooden spoon to fry whatever. Tongs for steaming veggies & broiling steak in the oven.
I cook mostly western at home since I haven't learned any Chinese recipes.
What I DO use chopsticks for - and this was a revelation, seriously - is for eating salads: mixed, green, spinach, chef's, whatever. I find it is MUCH easier to grasp the loose leaves, diced onion, sliced carrots, radishes, walnuts, garbanzo beans, etc. with chopsticks rather than with a knife and fork. SO much easier. With a knife & fork, it's a balancing act and half the time the lettuce ends up on the table or in my lap. With chopsticks, the lettuce goes home.
In fact, I'd like to patent the chopstick salad-eating method and FDA-enforce & require every restaurant in the United States (where I'm from) to serve menu salads with chopsticks and NOT with cutlery.
Oh, forgot. Shelled peanuts are easier and more fun to eat with chopsticks rather than with your fingers. Saves on napkins.
Scandinavian:
eating peanuts with chopsticks is also a great way to exercise the muscles in the hand that are needed for using the sticks