• eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    15·
    6 months ago

    Oddly, although I can use chopsticks to eat, I can not visualize what my grip is from these pictures. It’s delegated entirely to my hand at this point and I don’t think about it any more.

    • Got_Bent@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      I just grabbed a couple pens off my table because it’s become so second nature that I couldn’t visualize how I hold them.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    What the fuck is wrong with the beetle mandibles people and how do we get them the psychological help they desperately need?

  • Z4rK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    6 months ago

    Right hand rule ftw. I learned that from a sweat old lady who was the Health Minister of Beijing. I trust in her wisdom.

  • credit crazy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    Didn’t even know there were other ways other than the finger pistol and right hand rule. Are they all even remotely even possible?

  • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    Standard grip. I wasn’t taught, though, I just figured it out – it was the most natural for me.

    I sat here and tried all the other grips, and I can’t see how any of them can work. The top stick just flails about for me in all of them. Must have something to do with the way different muscles are used, and my finger muscles are trained for the one grip.

    I’m curious to know whether people who are used to a different grip can’t control them in standard grip, too, if that makes sense. I didn’t realise there were so many ways to hold them.

  • Navarian@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine more ways that I will absolutely fail at using chopsticks.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I had a pair of chopsticks whose instructions ended with “now you can lift anything”.

    I wish I had kept those chopsticks.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Apparently I use the standard. Perhaps related to the fact that I use a big pair of chopsticks to flip deep-frying stuff, so I need a good grip.

    • Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      big pair of chopsticks to flip deep-frying stuff,

      100% this. I have a pair of metal chopsticks that I use exclusively for frying food, especially small, super sticky stuff like nan gua bing. Most wooden ones here (Germany) have some sort of artificial coating and I’m a bit worried about it melting or releasing chemicals when it gets too hot, so I don’t want to dunk these into hot oil.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        That’s sensible - wood varnish sometimes contains polyurethane, that decomposes into all sorts of aromatics and cyanides. The ones that I use are plain, no varnish.

        I often use them with stuff like croquettes and popcorn fried chicken. For bigger stuff like Berlin balls and coxinhas I find that it’s simpler to use a fork and a mesh skimmer, it gives me more leverage.

      • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        My regular eating chopsticks have a metal core and silicone coating. I love them because they’re heat safe and extra grippy. I have a long metal set for cooking, but I’ve used my silicone ones for cooking, too. I prefer them to wood because they’re easier to clean.

  • stevestevesteve@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    I’m not convinced many of the grips pictured actually work to pick things up with the chopsticks, much less grip something weighty with them

    • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      I just tried all of them, and everything but the standard grip leaves my top stick flailing or with a very weak grip. I can’t imagine picking up anything heavy or very small with anything but standard…