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4.5
These work great and are easy to clean and a great value. Somehow all my forks went missing so it was nice to find some that match my others okI somehow lost all but 2-3 of my forks from my flatwear set—I guess after moving 3 times they got lost in one of the moves. So I desperately needed just forks. I was surprised that I could order just forks on Amazon, & ordered this set after reading the reviews.I’ve intentionally waited to do my review of them so I could use them & run them thru the dishwasher a few times.I have very hard water& was afraid it might corrode these forks, but I’ve had them a few months & run them thru the dishwasher numerous times. They look as new as the day I received them. The forks are strong & easy to hold with my arthritic hands.I really love them & am glad I bought them; they’re just what I wanted & needed!These are very nice for the price that you pay. They are a nice weight and polished. They hold up well in the dishwasher. Having a teenager at home, with forks disappearing on a weekly basis, this is a great save to allow us to have silverware without breaking the bank. Recommended, especially if you just want to replace a fork instead of an entire set of silverware.Not that I ever thought I would right a review for forks, but here we go. Somehow, in a household of 2, we never have forks, mostly because my husband is a big muscly man who knows his strength and DGAF, so stuff breaks around here a lot "from regular use"... (can you feel me rolling my eyes? I digress...) I knew whatever I got would have to be strong. Naturally, the first thing he did was try to bend them, which he DID, but it took effort. He said "These feel good," which is a win in my book. Looked good on the Thanksgiving table. I'll prob get the knives and spoons from these folks too.These forks are good, especially for the price, but the end of the tines are rough/sharp and easily scratch up and gouge other dishware, especially plastic.I'd suggest to the manufacturer that they put a little more effort into finishing the product by grinding the sharp edges off the tines.The stern is close to our silverware without the weight. It is very useful when too many original silverware is higher quality. I do not know the replacements pattern name so I could Oder more like the original.The fork on the right is from my original set. The LIANYU fork on the left is just purchased. Matching perfectly was not important to me, but I wanted it to be as close as possible.These forks are large and VERY sturdy and that's what I like about them. While the LIANYU fork is a bit longer… They are actually a touch lighter than my current fork set. I am only disappointed with the finger length of the new forks since it is a shorter. But they have been officially tested and nobody in my family has complained.I am VERY HAPPY with this purchase.Quality material isn't the problem with these forks, but they are much too large, too bulky, too heavy, and too blunt at the tips to be comfortable for eating, unless you have a family of giants with overly large hands, and even then the blunted tips would pose some problems, making it difficult to stab, say, crisp salad greens instead of chasing them around on a plate, or difficult to pin meat down for ease in cutting it. The material quality and workmanship are ok, but where they miss the mark is on being comfortable to use and the tips of the tines being too blunt to make them practical to use. If they were scaled down overall by 3/4" to 1" and crafted more like finer flatware forks at the tips, I'd probably be interested in buying 24 full place settings and hosting pieces as well.
