Overall avg rating 2.5 of 5 based on 10 reviews. Most recent review: June 8, 2013
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Varies from $3 - $10 | Compare prices at 3 resellers Pros: Spoon and fork are separate, has semi-functional knife edge. Cons: Plastic, Inelegant. Best Uses: Backpacking, car camping.
The Light My Fire Spork can twirl pasta and hold soup, but its cumbersome design and brittle materials make it a runner-up to the other products tested. For something elegant that will last for years, try our Editors’ Choice, the Snow Peak Titanium Spork. It may not have a separate spoon and fork, but it works almost as well, has a great design, and is much easier to clean. For ultralight backpacking we recommend the Sea To Summit Alphalight, which, at a scant .3 oz, is .06 oz lighter than the Light my Fire Spork. See our complete Sporks Review to see how they scored in head-to-head tests.
Likes
This spork can twirl pasta and hold soup like no other. The spoon and fork are separated, which means, for pure functionality, the Light My Fire spork is unrivaled. It has a neat but almost useless knife edge built into one of the fork tines. The Light My Fire Spork was the second lightest of the products tested, heavier than the Alpha Light by only .06 oz.
Dislikes
Copolyester is brittle. The knife edge snapped off while testing and the fork tines feel fragile. The plastic has an unusual texture and is often difficult to clean. It also has a relatively low melting point. When a tester used this spork while cooking with a cast-iron skillet, the metal got hot enough to melt the tips of the fork tines.
The shaft is wide and bulky, which makes the utensil rather unwieldy. Eating the same meal with both sides of the spork would be a great way to get hands and clothes covered in food.
Best Application
The Light My Fire Spork is best used for car camping or backpacking. Because this spork can’t really be used for cooking, its applications are more limited than the other sporks tested.
Value
Of the products tested, the Light My Fire Spork is by far the best value. It might not be as durable as the others, but an individual Light My Fire Spork sells for as little as $2.50. Four-packs are sold for $6.
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I bought a few of these sparks to take along on climbing trips. Theres nothing like a hot bowl of chili after a day of subfreezing aid climbing. Your tent mate might not enjoy it as much, but you'll be zipped up in your bag soon anyway. Bottom line, these sporks didn't last long. I think the cold temps make these extra brittle. They broke really fast and I've since upgraded to titanium ones.
Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this product to a friend.
Concur with most of the reviews. The price is right. Lightweight. Pretty good design/ergonomics. I haven't broken one yet. The most annoying thing about the spork is that it seems saggy and flexible in the middle, but it can also spring load and catapult some food at you if you are not careful.
Bottom Line: It's nice to have a couple of these lying around, but worth to have a Titanium spork with a clip in loop that you shouldn't lose.
I've used a couple of these sporks for a year now during winter in temps as low as -20 and summer as high as 86 and I have never had one break on me. I suppose if you were trying to poke at a steak or something it might break but I just use mine for rehydrated meals. I keep a couple of them attached to the side of my jetboil sumo pot that I always take because I'm always with someone else. Just use them gently, they're plastic dude. They're like one step above the plastic cutlery that you get at the grocery store but these can take a lot more heat before they melt, and are quite a bit more rigid. If there was a titanium one with this exact shape I would buy one, but they don't exist, so I prefer this one.
Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this product to a friend.
I've owned three of these sporks, lost one and broke the other two. They are light and the texture isn't bad. They also tend not be burn your mouth if they were just in hot soup. As the review says, you get a real fork on one end with a full spoon on the other with a useless pseudo-knife. But, be delicate with them or they will break and then you'll have no spork until you get back to civilization.
If I was going anywhere for more than a week, I'd bring two just to be safe…
Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this product to a friend.
I've used these, and recommended them to others, in the past. However, we have found, universally, that the Achilles Heel for this product is durability: they snap in half at the most inopportune moment.
As a "spork", the design (not the material) is great, because you've got a real spoon, instead of a "leaky one" like that found on true sporks. You've also got a true fork, instead of a dull, sort-of fork. This part of the Light My Fire product is great. If they didn't break so easily, it would be excellent.
We found them to be easy to clean and that the texture on them wasn't a problem, at all. They fit in the hand well and are light in weight.
However, they break suddenly and without any extraordinary stress. They snap in warm weather, and in cold. They snap without stress marks and they snap right when it will break your heart.
Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this product to a friend.
I'll give it a 3 star rating as long as it holds together. I didn't give it any more stars since mine broke in two while in my pack. Dipping into the bottom of a rehydrated pouch of vittles when it's broken gets messy. There OK but I'd recommend that you spend a little more and get a Ti spork.
Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this product to a friend.
The only reason why I would recommend it is because of its price but it too broke off on me on its very first trip to Algonquin Park backcountry. It just became brittle and a little bend, its snapped in two.
Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this product to a friend.
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