Cutlery

If you grab fast food while out and about, there's a good chance that you use the restaurants' disposable plastic cutlery. Uphold offers a more eco-friendly alternative, as it's a reusable modular cutlery set that packs away into a slim case.

Opinel is looking to capture the hearts and meals of campers and backcountry diners with its new Picnic+ kit. The most elegant spork – technically a sporf – we've seen, the kit packs a classic folding knife with removable fork and spoon inserts.

Much sturdier than flimsy take-out giveaways, the reusable S+ fiberglass cutlery set packs down into a pocket-size carry case to easily transition between breakfast parfaits and sushi dinners.

Titanium-obsessed Septum Studio has launched a few pieces of ultralight gear in the past, and now it's back with a new take on the spork. An entire place setting in a single lightweight utensil, the EATI makes it easy to dine on the move.

The Forkanife from Canada's Cold4ged offers eco-conscious diners a sustainable knife and fork set that can be packed up and stowed right in the credit card slot of their wallet, offering a greener alternative to single-use plastic utensils.

A growing cohort of small companies are working to offer products that make eating when we’re out and about a less wasteful affair, the latest of which offers a durable set of cutlery that snaps together for easy carry.

​​Plastic cutlery may well be convenient, but it is certainly wasteful. Outlery was cooked up as an alternative, consisting of a collapsible and reusable cutlery and chopstick sets that can be packed into a very manageable pocket-sized package. ​

​​We’ve seen plenty of spoons that can fork, and forks that can spoon, but what about spoons that can fork, pop and slice? The Titanium Scork is a featherweight camping utensil that has both your eating and drinking needs covered, thanks to a couple of handy of implements at either end. ​

If you're going to spend a whole 18 months re-designing the camping spork, you might as well make the world's most badass single outdoor eating/cooking contraption. And that, in the estimation of its creators, is what we're looking at here with the Morsel spork.

With objects you need to take camping or that you need to keep on you at all times, portability is key. Reducing camping cutlery down to an absolute minimum is the approach Micah Baclig has taken with his new spork. The Kuma fits into the palm of a hand.

Many a sandwich has been ruined by overzealous buttering with fridge-cold butter. The anguish of torn bread may now be a thing of the past, though, thanks to a newly-designed butter knife. The ButterUp knife has a built-in grater to soften butter for spreading.