salad forks

Smaller dinner prongs

Salad forks are smaller forks with shorter, sometimes broader tines, used for eating salad.

In formal table settings, they appear to the left of the dinner fork and are used for earlier courses.

The term sometimes serves as shorthand for fussy etiquette or social pretension: I don't know from salad forks.

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Opposites
course/meal sequence

salad forksdinner forks

Pronged eating implements

dessert forks · steak knives

utensil size

salad forksdinner forks

Pronged eating implements

soup spoons · tablespoons · serving spoons · steak knives · ladles

formality/specialization

salad forksplastic forks

Disposable pronged eating tools

sporks · fingers · hands · chopsticks

Family

fork, salad, forks, forked, salads, forking, salad bar, salad days, fruit salad

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G