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Prior to this, I worked in Beijing as a restaurants editor, tasting my way through many different cuisines using Chinese place settings (ever eaten foie gras with chopsticks? The funny dinosaur design with a biting action is sure to attract children's attention and make them enjoy using chopsticks. Although chopsticks tend to be fairly uniform in appearance, chopstick rests can range from simple and utilitarian to highly whimsical. The artsy Aero Chopsticks with Rest by Portuguese luxury-flatware maker Cutipol were definitely a case of form over function.

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But they got a pretty universal thumbs-down from parents (deputy editor Annemarie Conte said, “I had to clean rice out of the shark’s mouth. The New York City–based Sichuan dry pot restaurant MáLà Project uses similar chopsticks from Korin on its tables. With a length of 18cm and a width of 5cm, these chopsticks are an excellent parent-child interaction tool for training children's ability to use chopsticks.

Whether it’s finding great products or discovering helpful advice, we’ll help you get it right (the first time). But unless you’re building miniature towers of slivered daikon on the regular, you likely won’t need a pair of these. These chopsticks are also high maintenance—a single run through the dishwasher definitely faded their glory. Generally, we found that plastic options came in more-versatile shapes and lengths, whereas most metal chopsticks were either round, hollow, and really slippery, or thin, flat Korean-style versions sold with accompanying spoons.

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Two takeaways: Don’t use really stubborn labels on your chopsticks at home, and even hand washing will cause a little bit of fading. Understatedly beautiful in that Holy Grail–in– Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade kind of way, Kent Wang Ebony Chopsticks are hand carved from sustainable ebony. Admittedly I often eat it with the help of a fork, but I might have to switch to a different kind of utensil.I then spent several years banging out endless meals for the toughest critics—my three children—usually with the help of my favorite cheap wooden pairs.

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Testers almost unanimously disliked the round hollow pairs, though a select few really enjoyed the sleek minimalism of the flat, Korean-shaped chopsticks. But apart from using them for takeout, chopsticks can also be a practical tool for other everyday tasks, such as scrambling eggs, stirring coffee, or plucking olives from the bottom of a jar.These might make a thoughtful gift for that friend who’s a camping-and-sushi enthusiast, but for everyday use they don’t quite work. We favored wooden chopsticks that have a smooth-enough finish for a pleasing mouthfeel but are still natural enough to supply some grip to the food. Best of all, the hinge and rings can be removed, leaving simple, shorter, dishwasher-safe chopsticks for your kids to use when they’re ready.

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I don't actually have any pink ABS on hand so it was really printed in yellow, probably should have planned this out further. She finds the sharp-angled tips important for plucking the precise clump of soybean sprouts you want from the banchan plates in front of you.

If you want to be able to put your chopsticks in the dishwasher without a second thought, you’ll want to go with plastic or metal. And if you have a hard time getting food in your mouth, or that pair of chopsticks is uncomfortable to use, then switch it up. Grace Young, who’s made an entire career out of frying things in her wok (which is often what these are marketed for) still prefers to use regular-size wooden chopsticks when she cooks. We began some preliminary testing of training chopsticks for kids by placing several pairs in the homes of Wirecutter staffers for their little ones (ages 3 to 8) to try, but our full testing plan was interrupted when our offices closed due to the pandemic. Scott Misture, Inamori professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Alfred University, told us, “I’d suspect that wood is more likely to warp than bamboo because bamboo has a highly uniform cellular structure between nodes (knots).