叉子显然更有效率，为什么还有人要使用筷子呢？_风闻

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Why are chopsticks used when a fork is clearly more efficient?

叉子显然更有效率，为什么还有人要使用筷子呢？

​评论原创翻译：

Andy Narimatsu

, A Japanese American who lives and works in Japan

Tell you what. If you can eat a Xiaolongbao with a fork, and manage to do so without spilling all of the juice, I’ll concede your point and admit that forks are the superior utensil to chopsticks.

Until then, I’ll happily eat my food with chopsticks.

Hell, I’m not afraid to admit that I prefer them to forks even when spaghetti or pasta is on the menu.

, 一个在日本生活和工作的日裔美国人

告诉你吧。如果你能用叉子吃小笼包，而且能做到不把汁液全部洒出来，我就承认你的观点，并承认叉子是比筷子更高级的用具。

在那之前，我很乐意用筷子吃我的食物。

见鬼，我并不害怕承认我更喜欢用筷子，即使菜单上有意大利面条或意大利面。

Illyria Duncan

As an European, I would say that all utensils have their place to shine with different foods, but would also agree that chopsticks are more efficient than a fork in general. This, because chopsticks can be used both for foods that are eaten with the fork usually and for the food that is hard to eat with fork, while the other way around is hard and messy.

That said and just to give a bit of laugh and horror to the good people under this question a little (I know it did to me), I personally witnessed a person picking up 小籠包 with a fork (by pushing the fork under the dumpling directly in the steamer), carrying it to the mouth and pushing it in, in one smooth move. No soup spoon used, no making a hole for the steaming soup to pour out and cool a bit. He was completely insensitive to the heat and proceeded to shovel the fork (that he just pulled out of his mouth), back into the steamer and pick another dumpling, repeating the process. Rest of us sat there in small shock (both to the lack of hygiene and resistance to heat), including (and especially) his wife who was from Shanghai, made the dumplings and of course knew how to eat them. He continued to eat unfazed and we all ate from the other two steamers, using the chopsticks and spoons. No one said the word to him and I doubt he noticed anything amiss.

作为一个欧洲人，我想说的是，所有的餐具在不同的食物上都有其发光的地方，但也同意筷子比一般的叉子更有效率。这是因为筷子既可以用于通常用叉子吃的食物，也可以用于用叉子难以吃到的食物，而反过来则是困难和混乱的。

说到这里，只是想给这个问题下的好心人一点笑料和惊吓（我知道对我来说是这样），我亲眼看到一个人用叉子叉起小笼包（把叉子直接推到蒸笼里的小笼包下面），把它送到嘴里，然后推入，动作流畅。没有使用汤匙，没有为蒸出来的汤开个洞，让它冷却一下。他对热度完全不敏感，继续把叉子（他刚从嘴里拔出来的）铲到蒸笼里，再挑一个饺子，重复这个过程。我们其余的人坐在那里，都有点震惊（既不卫生也没他那么耐热），包括（尤其是）他的妻子，她是上海人，会包饺子，当然知道怎么吃。他继续这么吃，不为所动，我们都用另外两个蒸笼，用筷子和勺子吃。没有人对他说过一句话，我怀疑他是否注意到有什么不妥。

Steve Tsai

I’ll admit that I’m one of those freaks (and yes there are a few of us out there) that eats pizza with chopsticks. I also sometimes eat chips this way. Even my Asian-American friends stare at me for doing that. It’s because I don’t want to get my fingers greasy. Surprisingly, I’m not the only one who does this, but we are few enough that we do get stares from everyone else. :P

我承认，我是那种用筷子吃披萨的怪人（是的，很少有人会这样）。我有时也用这种方式吃薯片。甚至我的亚裔美国朋友也会因为我这样做而盯着我看。这是因为我不想让我的手指沾上油。令人惊讶的是，我不是唯一这样做的人，但我们的人数很少，以至于我们确实得到了其他人的注视。 :P

Lemon Richardson

I really wish that I could use chopsticks better than I do, they just seem so much more useful than forks do. I’m trying to use chopsticks more, but learning how to use them is difficult for me meaning I’m still sadly stuck with the fork.

我真的希望我能够更好地使用筷子，它们似乎比叉子有用得多。我正在尝试更多使用筷子，但学习如何使用筷子对我来说很困难，这意味着我仍然遗憾地只能使用叉子。

Joshua Tan

To quote my teacher, “forks and spoons must be custom-made, while chopsticks can be made using anything, even two tree branches”. Proof that chopsticks are superior.

引用我老师的话，“叉子和勺子必须是定制的，而筷子可以用任何东西制作，甚至是两根树枝”。证明了筷子的优越性。

Stephen Merkel

You eat xiaolongbao with chopsticks? Why not a spoon like in the image? Then you can get a bit of shredded ginger and some chili oil as a base for all that tasty “soup” when you pop it open. I have tried it both ways, but spoon seems more efficient. Some foods are way better with chop sticks though for sure!

你用筷子吃小笼包？为什么不像图片中那样用勺子呢？这样你就可以得到一点姜丝和一些辣椒油，作为你打开后所有美味"汤"的基础。我两种方法都试过了，但勺子似乎更有效率。不过，有些食物用筷子肯定会好一些！这一点是肯定的。

Arhan Kamath

Chopsticks clearly are better for picking up food without destroying it, as in the case of dumplings, however, I still do think that a modified form of them where they are joined at the back end, i.e. more like tongs would be more efficient and easy.

筷子显然更适合在不破坏食物的情况下夹起食物，比如在夹饺子的情况下，然而，我仍然认为筷子的改良形式，即在后端连接起来，变更像钳子，会更加有效和方便。

Tilman Eichfelder

Can’t you simply push the fork below? Not that you should, but this doesn’t seem like a good reason. You could probably eat everything you eat with chopsticks with fork and knife. But why? I find chopsticks to be more fun and authentic for certain foods. And they’re easy enough to use, especially after a lifetime of training.

你不能简单地把叉子推到小笼包下面吗？不是说你应该这么做，但这似乎不是一个好辩驳叉子的理由。你可能可以用刀叉吃所有用筷子吃的东西。但是为什么要这么做呢？我发现对于某些食物来说，筷子更有趣，更可靠。而且它们很容易使用，尤其是在经过一生的训练之后。

Ian Chen

People are making this so much more complicated than it needs to be, use chopsticks if your used to it and if you can’t be bothered using chopsticks or it’s just not your thing then use forks. Also I severely doubt people who don’t take any time to learn how to use chopsticks would bother to actually eat 小笼包’s correctly. Personally I use chopsticks for anything except soups and pasta, pasta is just so thick that it feels more natural to use a fork.

人们把这个问题搞得太复杂了，如果你习惯用筷子，就用筷子，如果你懒得用筷子，或者不喜欢，就用叉子。另外，我非常怀疑那些不花时间学习如何使用筷子的人是否会费心去正确吃小笼包。就我个人而言，除了汤和意大利面之外，我吃什么都用筷子，意大利面太厚了，用叉子感觉更自然。

Scott Chang

I find it much easier using chopsticks even for salad. I somehow have difficulties poking and holding foods with a fork. Steaks, yes I prefer using a fork but mostly I find the chopstiks more practical for me that is.

我发现使用筷子要容易得多，即使是吃沙拉。我不知道为什么，用叉子戳和拿食物都有困难。对于牛排，是的，我更喜欢用叉子，但大多数时候我发现筷子对我来说更实用。

Chiaki Watanabe

, Born and raised in Japan

A fork should be more efficient when you try to eat a block of meat.

In chopstick countries, they barely eat anything you need to pierce and settle to eat as their traditional food.

There are steak houses in those countries of course and some people visit them from time to time, but they use forks there.

When you try to achieve two different things, what’s efficient is mostly different depending on the aimed achievement.

, 在日本出生和长大

当你试图吃一块肉的时候，叉子应该更有效率。

在筷子国家，他们几乎不吃任何你需要刺破和分割的东西，作为他们的传统食物来吃。

当然，在这些国家也有牛排馆，有些人时常去那里，但他们在那里会使用叉子。

当你试图实现两件不同的事情时，哪一种是高效的，主要取决于目标成就的不同。