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Chopsticks recommendations available in the EU

Chopsticks recommendations available in the EU - Lemmy.World

Hey everybody, I hope you’re all doing well. My significant other and myself are enjoying asian food on regular basis and want to switch to proper chopsticks instead of reusing the single-use ones. Since we don’t have any knowledge about anything, what’s matters what not, I wanted to ask you if someone can recommend any or at least give any advice what to look for and what to avoid. Plus points if it’s available in the EU. Thanks for your time, have a nice one

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TheAlbatross Feb 5

Go to your local Asian grocer and grab a cheap set you like. Simple as. Pick fiberglass or metal so you can throw em in the dishwasher. Make sure you have 6 or 8 pairs for two people so you can be a little lazy. FWIW, I’m from the US and I paid $6 for an 8-pair pack. This was a few years ago but I can’t imagine they’re wildly more expensive or hard to find in Europe.

Chopsticks are great. I use em while cooking all the time. Great for whisking and also flipping foods while frying. Get longer wooden ones to cook with. You can tell oil is at frying temp by looking at the bubbles that come off the tips of wooden chopsticks stuck in hot oil.

They’re also good for snacking. Easy to eat chips or what have you without getting your fingers greasy.

Edit: This is the set I have. Apparently they’re fiberglass not plastic? Anywhoo I even use em very briefly while cooking in pans for flipping or stirring something and they seem not to get damaged from the heat, though that might not be recommended.

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Tolstoy Feb 5

Perfect summary^^ thank you very much. I was at our Asian couple of days ago but didn’t looked specifically for plastic or metall. I only saw a cheap looking wooden set (looked liked colored single-use ones) and wasn’t sure, hence this post.

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TheAlbatross

I bet they got em. I see the same fucking set I own in videos of people’s home cooking on Chinese social media, they seem ubiquitous. Lemme just add that I’d avoid the fancier-looking wooden ones. They’re nice to let guests use and admire, but the lacquer and designs wear with use and the wood swells with washing. They’re not expensive and still wooden, so they don’t have a huge environmental impact (discounting shipping, but I really don’t think either of us are gonna be sourcing locally made chopsticks for daily use anytime soon), but they’re not buy em for life and use daily. Heck I dunno if the fiberglass ones I have are truly good for life but they’re at least good for five years! 🤣