I promise you that you too can eat using chopsticks, no matter how hopelessly un-Asian you think you are, no matter how klutzy you are. You probably won’t lose an eye or any extremities during the course of this procedure, but if you want to be safe, you might want to go put on that pair of safety goggles in the garage.
Step 1: Take your first chopstick and hold it like you were going to write your name with it. The chopstick should wind up in your thumb and there should be approximately an inch between your thumb and middle finger. The second chopstick needs to be a buttery long as you can move the rice from the outside to the inside of your thumb. The third chopstick is going to be short, and also flexible. Place it between your thumb and middle finger. The short chopstick is going to be used to scoop food, and the long chopstick is going to be used to eat. The short chopstick is quite malleable, and you may be able to actually write its name on it using chopsticks. The middle chopstick should be kept stationary.
Step 2: Now, place the rice from the outside into the short chopstick. The short chopstick should remain stationary while moving the rice from the outside to the inside.
Step 3: Now, simply shift the rice from the outside to the inside. The short chopstick should remain stationary while moving the rice from the outside to the inside.
Step 4: Finally, the middle chopstick should be kept stationary.
Once you’ve mastered the short chopstick, you can barley use it to pick up rice. However, the long chopstick is still largely useful. You may be able to use it to drink soup, smoke, open cans, push ropes, and pick up small objects. Surprisingly enough, the long chopstick is also useful for calling chopsticks. This is because when you use chopsticks to eat, rather than grabbing the top end, you tend to maintain most of your weight. It is also much easier to pick up food with chopsticks. So, if you have been experimenting with the short and long chopsticks and you want to know more about using them, then you will want to know more about the long chopstick.
The short chopstick is generally considered to be the cheaper of the two chopsticks. Both the long and short chopsticks can be made out of. The short ends can be made into very short chopsticks, which are usually used to eat noodles and soup, or even to ripen certain fruits. The long end is usually cut into pieces and used to eat meat, fish or vegetables. The short chopstick is most often used for Chinese foods, although they are becoming more popular in other countries.
The blue chopstick is very important to traditional Chinese teas or the tea ceremony. Not only does the chopstick remind us of the sky, but it is also the god of tea, signifying direction and balance. The short blue chopstick is sometimes called the god of rice, being half the size of a regular piece of rice, but when you really sit down to drink tea, the short blue chopstick is the one that feels light and balanced on the throat.
The high quality blue chopstick presents a more delicate, almost veneer of the delicate blue/purple rice. The feel and balance of the stick, as well as theryaoccurrence of the chopsticks, are qualities that were essential to the traditional way of eating a particular tea.
Chopsticks are not only used to eat food. Surprisingly, chopsticks were also used to fashion weapons and tools. The ancient Chinese were able to fashion a short stick from the membrane of an orchid. Not only were the sticks used to eat food, they were also used to fashion crude bowls and tools to shove things in and out from.
And probably other things too!
Chopsticks are still very popular today. Not only can you find them at OprahTamanna, but you can also buy them at the dollar store. And, if you are adventurous, you can find a way to recycle these little “one-time use” items by mixing them with something fun and current such as: Twizzlers, Marzipan and Cheerios. instantly transforms the bag into a beer bucket for beer lovers (or at least beer eaters).
Do you use chopsticks everyday? Do you hand wash them, do you wash them with dish soap? Do you put them in dishwasher? And do you throw away the disposable ones? I mean the pieces just become like an addition to the dishwasher. And could you live without them?
