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Fashion may often be sacrificed for function, but comfort should only be abandoned as the last resort; after all, your food should be the star of the meal, not your utensil. Made laugh when I saw ten best. If somebody gifted me this spork for Christmas, you wouldnt hear me complain. It keeps your bag clean and allows you to do the heavy cleaning once you're back at home. Ill second this. No cherry-picked units sent by manufacturers.
Whether tossed in your backpack, purse, or lunchbox, you will forget it's even there until it's time to feast. Unless youre car camping, you should carefully consider the weight of every piece of gear youre carrying. 
Just imagine! Sometimes, its good enough (Army knife), but sporks dont meet my threshold. Like an office printer/scanner/fax, or even a Swiss Army knife, no single functionality works as well as a dedicated machine or tool would. Outdoor Gear Lab concluded that the Snow Peak Titanium Spork was the best overall backpacking spork (obviously). Overall, the utensils are nice.
It all depends on your most frequent needs and priorities.
A great spork should handle consuming and cooking well. Sea to Summit AlphaLight Spork. The serrated edge of the Light My Fire Titanium is there to help when basic slicing is required. Cooking with this 6.5-inch model is easy in conventionally sized pots and pans, but a bit too short for ideal use with dehydrated food bags.
I just did a search and cant find it. From backcountry to sidecountry to front country, we used these products at home for breakfast, work-week lunches, car camping dinners, and as our multi-purpose utensils while trekking, backpacking, and ski touring.
The CRKT Eatn Tool is heavy, short, awkward, comes with a bottle opener and is probably indestructible. We started by rinsing each spork with cold running water and no additional tools other than our fingers. Additionally, its small bowl size also makes it a mediocre soup spoon. The design is actually more impressive than the LMF Plastic but not worth the price difference in my opinion. All single-ended models excelled with ramen. I call things like sporks sofa beds. Neither a good sofa nor a good bed. I love sporks haha, what an invention.
However, if you plan to use yours on a backpacking trip, it also needs to boost the added utility of just about every culinary gadget except the kitchen sink.
I have a couple. It they work for you, fine, but for me, sporks are up there with drilling holes through toothbrush handles in terms of silly incremental weight reduction while compromising function. 
The fork is robust enough to cut through soft foods, while the low-curvature spoon edges are designed to scrape the sides of containers. Eating soup with one always left a little dribble on my chin/beard.
Just don't lose it. I thought the serrated knife looked nice, but wondered if it was either too safe to be a gimmick or it actually could give you the joker look if you were not careful :D. The first one from Sea to Summit has a built in knife.
The thin construction may feel slightly unusual in hand at first, but we found nothing uncomfortable about eating with this model. Free Shipping and Returns. 
We scoured the market with a fine-toothed comb before finally selecting the top competitors. These products inherently act as multi-tools by combining multiple utensils into one. For food that can really only be eaten when stabbed, i sharpen a twig or use a tent peg. It weighs less than a nickel, 1/4th of many of the sporks in the article, costs about $4.00USD and is food grade dishwasher safe plastic.
. Sporks are for ramen lovers, and the Kung Foon takes it up a level with added chopsticks. With a spoon on one end and a fork on the other, holding it feels far from natural. The result is a comprehensive review that will help you find the perfect cutlery to match your unconventional eating needs. All right, ill be the one to say it.
(Im just kidding.). I once bought a cute and lightweight camp spatula for a week-long trip on the Colorado Trail. Its lighter than the Snow Peak by .2 oz but sacrifices durability a small amount. UCO Ware has a Limited lifetime warranty. Theyre not stiff or strong enough.
Theres not much food that can be eaten with a fork but cant be scooped with a spoon. Super light and super tough, this titanium spork has a small eyelet at the end, large enough to loop paracord through so you can clip it to your pack.
Wooden and bamboo sporks tend to break down with use, but they are usually biodegradable. Its a decent spork with decent durability, and comes with the same cute carabiner as its sibling. The most fun, food-portmanteau since brunch, the spork is the fundamental tool for your outdoor cooking and eating requirements. I wish the armed forces would learn your immutable law of industrial design and stop trying to build insanely expensive vehicles, aircraft or ships that cover many missions adequately, without handling any specific role very well. We also put them through specific tests to evaluate their comfort while eating, how useful they are for cooking, how simple they are to clean, and how likely they are to break.
Similar to numbers 7 & 9, in either Ti or plastic Although perhaps it didnt make 10 best. The folks over at Expedition Portal and Outdoor Gear Lab have performed similar-ish tests in the past. Comment *document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a40241dc816c9261be4899967666b1e3" );document.getElementById("je705695a8").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); BACKCOUNTRY.COM: Get 15% Off Your First Order. It needs to be functional and actually perform.
Color: Get a brightly colored spork if youre prone to lose them on backpacking trips. In this category, the top dog was the Snow Peak Titanium, but the Vargo Titanium ULV and the Toaks Titanium (the non-folding model) came in at a close second.
The square etching outline collects dirt and old food and is dreadfully hard to clean and keep clean. Researchers Note: If your tent-mate is a notorious spoon biter, gift them the Light My Fire Plastic Spork for minimal mid-meal noise pollution. I get it! Yet, I almost want to keep it and convert it into a keychain. Made with bamboo, its hand finished with a light treatment of all-natural, organic, food-safe oil that wont warp and swell in soapy water. Each spork was used with the intent to scoop 5 of the happiest, hardiest helpings into the camp bowl and camp mug. Multi-purpose: Theres something to be said for having a multi-purpose spork that can open beer bottles or cans, even if they do weigh more than other options. I saw one with a loop handle, but thats not it. 
I had one of the Sea to Summit spork + knife utensils to take on monthly business trips. I never could get use to the spork idea. More spoon than fork so works well with soups and other liquids. The LMF Original and Titanium models held an astounding 8.5 cc's, followed by the Vargo model with 5.75 cc's and the humangear GoBites Uno with 4.5 cc's.
They will likely outlast the longevity of plastic models, making their value appreciate over time. If other colors are available, click color swatches above to check. It also needs to be lightweight and not ridiculous to lug around. The spork is a camping essential on your gear list, so dont make light of it when it comes time to shop. I cary a chaep seatosummit spoon, costs less than one euro and weighs approximately nothing.
Compact enough to neal in my 850 mug/pot. The humangear GoBites Uno is inexpensive and scored above average across the board, giving it our best price-to-performance ratio. I make meals a little gloppy, to aid in clean-up and digestion, and I chop meat into small pieces, so I dont need a fork. While all of these products were successful at sauteing, we want to note a few caveats. Its ability as a soup scooping, food stirring, durable camp kitchen utensil was near on par with the Snow Peak Titanium Spork. If you are more of a ramen traditionalist and chopsticks are a must, the GSI Outdoors Kung Foon spork and chopstick combination are the best of both worlds.
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Also available in a variety of colors including blue, green, and silver, this durable stainless steel includes a carabiner clip that you can attach to your pack, belt loop, or other gear. We let the soup get as hot as possible and got to stirring, testing each spork throughout the entire cooking process and observing if steam ever became too hot to bear. Inside my Ursack. That story inspired this durability test. The Toaks Titanium Folding didn't break, but the folding joint released with just 1 lb of weight. Pick the Snow Peak Titanium Spork if you want a spork that will do it all and get it done for a long, long time.
10-lbs? The Light My Fire Original snapped in half early in our testing period while being used to stir breakfast potatoes. Use the spoon and fork separately or connect them together end to end for extra length. If youre uncertain the answer is yes, youll probably hate the thing by day three on the trail. Ive quit using sporks, since I mostly use freezer-bag-cooking, and the tines can poke holes in the bags. Save big on Exos/Eja, Atmos/Aura, and Stratos/Sirrus Backpacks. The advantage of their approach is that the fork tines are longer so you can get a better grip on foods that are denser and tougher to penetrate with shorter tines. It felt sturdy in hand and wasn't phased by any of the thick, sticky meals we threw at it. Quick to be creative, he sharpened the end of his toothbrush into a food skewer, and the end result was something of serrated beauty and detail.
Buy something you like, because youre hopefully going to have it a very long time. After you know which material will truly suit you the best, then you can begin to study other important features.
Metal folding sporks tend to be more durable than plastic ones. Maybe not the most practical way to spend my free time to shave off a couple of ounces and save $10. A properly designed rounded edge would have been much nicer and perhaps have been a cheaper die design also. If youre looking for something you can throw into a pack or even purse or briefcase during the workweek and forget about, you probably want something indestructible and lightweight (titanium). You shouldnt be limited by your spork on what types of food you can buy and eat on the trail. The thin plastic models, such as the Light My Fire Original and the MSR Folding, are prone to melting after many uses. Doesn't reach the bottom of dehydrated food bags. This is the unfortunate case for all of our competitors, save the GSI Kung Foon, Sea to Summit AlphaLight - Long, and MSR Folding models. 
Which it does, but the spoon has an odd shape with the bowl being so deep that you have to turn it over and lick the food out of the bottom. Note from the editor: If you dont put the word Best into the title of a web post, Google wont list your page high in its search rankings. 
Not only does the thick design lend to its strength, but it improves the comfort of the bowl and tines when eating.
It was the only spork that we successfully damaged in some way through our experiments, and reviews elsewhere suggest that this is moderately commonplace. The spork has a nice deep bowl, but tines that are long enough to use as tines, and the spatula is great for scooping out the last bit of your PB, and it has a serrated edge thats shockingly effective and cutting pretty much anything youd want to eat while backpacking.
Fortunately, none of the handles became hot with regular use, unless they were rested on the side of the pot, but try to reach the bottom of a dehydrated food bag or a JetBoil stove, and you can forget about keeping your fingers out of the meal. 