Trash Taste Learns The ACTUAL Way to Use Chopsticks
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I am Asian and I am open-minded, I am used to muti-cultural experience, and the way Garnt use chopsticks is pure Chaotic Evil.
Is he trying to hold chopsticks, or to summon shadow clones with one hand 😂
I thought you were exaggerating. You weren't. 😅
Why do you have to hurt my boy Grant Manethapoh. He's just doing finger Yoga.
@@musketeer2727There's a difference?
Garnt is the only person I have ever seen use that method for both writing and using chopsticks other than myself. It’s nice to know I’m not the only one!
I have a similar way of holding a pin, but I sorta stretch out my hand along it so my thumb acts as a sort of pivot
I have pretty much the exact same method for both as well!
southeast asians are less like to get annoyed and bothered
that looks so uncomfortable, my fingers got sprained just by watching Garnt do it
Mark Crilley (artist on youtube) holds a pencil like that too. But that's due to an accident he once had.
spoons are indeed the universal utensil. a bowl on a stick, essentially
For chips tho, chopsticks the superior tool IMO. Your fingers stay clean, and you can efficiently pick up per piece.
I think forks are the most versatile. There situations where spoons or chopsticks are definitely better, but I think most situations can be handled with a fork
Knife is the universal utensil. The other ones are optional. You can do every eating manouver with your hands and a knife.
Hands are the one and only unuversal utensil. You can easily find people who eat without a knife, a spoon, a fork or chopsticks, but you will have a really hard time finding someone who doesn't use their hands to eat.
@@landerdepoorter2824 *mouth* is the only universal utensil. you could use any appendage you can move to shovel food in there, but you will have an extraordinarily difficult time to find someone who doesn't use their mouth
"We will talk about bars in a second."
Immediately starts talking about bars. Garnt is a man of his word!
Damn, the Barry Chopsticks lore keeps expanding.
*LORE*
I think Garnt's method may be due to the differences in the size of chopsticks across regions. Japanese ones are short and thin, making Joey's and cross methods effective. Chinese and SEA ones are usually long and heavy, actually very fitting for Garnt's method. And then there are Korean chopsticks that are short and heavy, easily claiming the highest bar of entry of all.
It's probably just because that's hoe he uses a pencil. There are multiple ways people naturally hold a pencil that can kind of be grouped into 2 "modes". Forget the name of the way Garnt hold it is called but I imagine most people with that grip mode hold their chopsticks in that way.
Korean ones were hard for me at first because I can't even hold them properly right-handed due to having "smartphone pinky", luckily I was able to quickly learn to use my left hand and avoid the embarrassment of asking for a fork
I remember my first breakfast in South Korea. I’m Chinese so I didn’t think there was anything particularly different about the metallic chopsticks I saw, but after putting them in position I could barely lift my hand. Actual heavy metal chopstick. All of the other chopsticks I used throughout that trip were more normal and I didn’t have to encounter those chopsticks again until I had to go back to the airport.
Tbh I like Korean chopsticks and also the Chinese melamine/plastic ones because they have better mouthfeel, they also feel better in the hands then wood imo.
I never had a problem using the same method with any length chopsticks, or any irregularly shaped objects either.
Well, maybe slightly thinner ones may be a tad uncomfortable (had ones that were stainless steel rectangular ones, those made my fingers ache).
Probably the way the pair is held as well as how strength is exerted with them is why some people can never hold them a certain way.
Edit: I think I might be ambi-chopsterous
As a child, my mother didnt want to teach my brother and I how to use chopsticks because apparently she was self taught and did it the improper way, and didnt want to pass that down to us. My brother and I are both self taught. After watching this video, it makes me think that every asian person is just self taught in how to use chopsticks
Probably. I mean as an American I'm pretty sure I was never actually thought "proper" use of any eating utensils beyond "make sure you get the food to your mouth" as a baby.
Pretty sure thats the case half the time. I am also self taught with chopsticks. I practiced picking up my eraser by using two pens/pencils at school and thats basically how I learned how to use them.
it's an evolutionary trait. If you eat Asian food you will learn how to use chopsticks sooner or later.
Ya I can't recall being taught to use chopsticks. Just been using it for so long.
When visiting San Antonio with my parents once, we went to eat in a Chinese restaurant. The lady taking our orders and serving our food was from China. When she gave us our food, she handed each of us a pair of chopsticks. My dad asked the lady to get us forks and spoons instead. She replied with, "Oh sorry. Usually oriental people like to eat with chopsticks." I thought it was pretty comical. I guess the server didn't know that Filipinos don't use chopsticks.
we don't thought we did or at least mine do
We use hands... XD
@@Falzan362 Mine don't. As a result, I never learned how to use them. Or more accurately, I never bothered learning how to use them.
Hispanic feel, i sometimes get with that problem as someone from an asian like country in south america
Yes indeed, but we Filipinos can use chopsticks.
Joey's family uses inverted controls using Chopsticks and Garnt uses Claw Grip and sets his control to Tactical!
It was super effective
joey's family is like mr miyagi
Wow, i don’t think I’ve ever seen chopsticks used the way Joey does. That looked so effortless.
It was like a direct extension of his fingers, I couldn’t believe it haha
It definitely takes some practice, but chopsticks are the most versatile utensil when held the proper way. When I learned to use them, I was given the challenge to pick up marbles. I don't think any other method of holding chopsticks makes it possible to pick up marbles since the pressure needs to be at the ends of the sticks to grip them properly on either side of a sphere.
My family often went to Chinese restaurants when I was a kid, and at some point, I taught myself to use chopsticks using the instructions on the wrapper they came in.
However, I found out later that I was holding them wrong by holding them parallel to each other after I saw an episode of Azumanga Daioh where Yukari made the same mistake while eating out with her friend and fellow school teacher Minamo, who pointed out her mistake and demonstrated the proper way to hold chopsticks, which was in a V formation.
As a kid I used to hold chopsticks with three digits, thumb and first finger gripping top one, bottom chopstick resting on second finger, as in the thumbnail. By about 15 years old I got fed up with the lack of strength and efficiency this grip was giving me, so I learned from everyone else what the correct grip was and just practiced it until I adopted it. Totally worth persevering.
Here are some useless analysis from my observation:
Joey's technique is the one that I use, by securing the bottom with a curled ring finger and moving the top with his middle and index, I think this is the easiest way of using chopsticks but maybe it's just because I developed and use the same technique.
The cross technique is something I might have seen but never tried before.
Connor's technique seems to be the most common from my experience. He secures the bottom with his ring and move the top with his middle. My parents use this one, though I think it's harder to handle because the ring finger is straighten.
Garnt's technique is the most alien shit I've ever seen.
I had an actual learning arc for chopsticks. When I was a kid there was an old Japanese restaurant near me where you could sit on the floor to eat and I remember the old Japanese owner would come out and teach me how to use chopsticks every time I visited. In the beggining he would make this tool by rolling up the chopstick wrapper and tying a rubber band around the end, but eventually I learned to use them without the training mod, and I can now confidently use chopstick in the propper way.
That sounds really sweet
I also hold a pen like Garnt. I've been doing it this way my whole life and can't change it.
+1 on the struggle with Korean chopsticks. Learnt from a pretty early age to use chopsticks, just kind of fumbled until I arrived at what appears to be the correct method you guys mention. Although I have been told off once by an Indonesian friend for using them in my left hand(I'm left handed)
7:48 I actually bought a Titanium Spork for a friend for his birthday once. Space spork. Rockets are made of that stuff.
I have one in my lunch bag. Best go everywhere utensil, strong like metal but almost as light as plastic.
@@stuntmonkey00 Yeah, plus I feel that any criticism you might get for having a spork goes away once the person finds out it's made of titanium!
I once got noodles with a friend. She didn't know how to use chopsticks, and I tried to teach her. She gave up and somehow stabbed the noodles with the chopsticks and ate it like that. It was the most American thing I've ever seen
How does one stab noodles?
Grants use of chopsticks is proof that he doesn’t just have trash taste, he was molded by it
I learned to use chopsticks as an adult, a few years ago. I just watched a few youtube videos and then practice using them one meal a day for two weeks. That was enough that I had no trouble with anything I ate in Japan when I went on vacation. I also have not used chopsticks at all since my trip, which is going on 4 years ago at this point, but I tried picking something up the other day just to see if I could, and had no problem. So definitely worth just taking that little bit of time to learn, and once you learn you don't really forget, even without much practice.
Chopsticks are more of a reflection of Chinese culture where they originated, since we share a lot of dishes on the dinner table, and it enables the person to get portions of the dishes they want, so it is not really about efficiency in eating a single dish. But learning how to use chopsticks the proper way is quite a pain.
I was taught by a Chinese friend in elementary school. It's funny because after 20 years I am reminded of her when I use them.
7:48: I have a spork(with butterknife on one prong) made from titanium.
Garnt just playing life Hard mode and winning.
+Just hold it like you are holding a pencil!
-What if I am holding the pencil weirdly?
+Don't worry, it will still work!
The Italian Chopstick situation shook Conor so much his accent reverted to thick welsh lol
The spork is the crocs of utensils.
I remember being terrible at chopsticks as a kid. I tried using them a few times around 8 y/o I think whenever my parents got chinese food.
Then I didn't even attempt it for a few years, but when I started watching anime I started eating cup noodles and wanted to eat those with chopsticks so my mum got me some and I instantly was able to use them without issue.
As an Asian, I often take it for granted that using chopsticks actually requires skill
I got my reality check when my friend bought some noodles and watched him struggle for a good 2 minutes
It doesn't. It's just Asian bigotry that enforces that stereotype. Anyone can use chopsticks, it's not hard. You're not superior. It's just muscle memory.
As an Asian, I've never learned to use chopsticks because Filipinos don't use chopsticks.
Its funny watching non chopstick users use chopsticks
So by your logic using a fork and knife to cut meat is also a "skill". No, it's really not. It's muscle memory.
As a Korean, I can confirm that Korean Chopsticks are the hardest bar none; the ones that are basically rectangular in shape (look up traditional Korean Chopsticks and you'll understand what I mean). To say that picking things up with them is difficult is a drastic understatement, and considering the hand dexterity that you need in order to actually use some of these chopsticks; well... There is definitely a learning curve for these things, but with practice, you'll definitely improve.
0:50 have you tried talking about corn?
I'm Chinese, so obviously as a kid we go eat at Chinese restaurants a lot and as a kid I found using the Chinese style chopsticks were SO HARD. They were thick, long, (get your mind out the gutter) and the tips were blunt and didn't feel precise enough. Not only that but because they were so long they felt heavy in my hand too. Plus if they were plastic? I had to give up on using them because my noodles would just slide off the chopsticks. Honestly if you have to or want to learn how to use chopsticks I found the Japanese style is the easiest to learn. The skinny tips, and shorter length helps give me so much control over my chopsticks. My house is full of Chinese style chopsticks but I literally had to get myself a pack of Japanese style chopsticks at Daiso which was a 45 min drive away. 😭 I miss the days of living in the city where there was a Daiso in every mall.
Pathetic, return to monke, use hand.
- Me
Yoo the way Grant holds a pen/pencil/chopsticks is how I do it to
I was just self-taught...and honestly it sort of cramps my hand, around the pinky area down to the hand. And often I don't get the chopsticks aligned after a couple of uses 😅. As long as I can pick up food I guess.
11:35 Garnt’s method of using chopsticks
Me and Garnt have the same pen technique. Noice.
I love eating pasta with chopsticks… there’s just something about wrapping pasta around two sticks that’s just way too satisfying…
I don't use chopsticks often, so I am pretty out of practice. Every time I use them I get hand cramps. But I think the biggest issue that I have is rolling. Most of the time I can use them fine, but sometimes when I pick something up it ends up sort of rolling around the bottom chopstick and then I lose my grip on what I'm holding.
Damn I use a fusion between Garnt's method and the original. The pose looks like how Garnt is holding it, but my technik of moving is similar to the original.
You know: If it's stupid but it works...it ain't stupid.
Number Bottle system... wow
That was news to me 😆
I have family memebers who before their 30s have never knife and forks to eat a meal before, and they struggled with them when I took them to a steakhouse in the states.
I will say , choptickes and long nails are a struggle at times. Like I have to adjust my grip , but with a fork ? don't have to. I love using both and have been cooking more with chopsticks and I like it better then tongs for small things like nuggies or thin meats.
I've had the opposite experience.
The longer my nails are, the easier chopsticks are to use.
Bro is playing on bumper jumper 💀
I hold chopsticks like the thumbnail. Taught myself at the theater I worked at in high school by picking up popcorn and M&Ms.
That's what happens growing up in a small town in South Dakota with no Asian restaurants around for miles.
13:31 I have the same technique as Garnt in both chopstick and pencil holding. How? I haven't found anyone like me up till now.
I didn't learn to use chop sticks until my mid 20's. It took me about 4 days of practice b4 I was comfortable with using them. Now it's just a nice flex to be able to do. Got me a few points with a date once.
Garnt is definitely a bug in the system.
OMG I use chopsticks the same way as Garnt, like exactly. I'm white, I spent my teenage years living with Cambodian/Thai people. My method was good enough for me to live in Japan for a time. Only once my ex's mom commented and showed me and it was the "correct" method Garnt displayed, so maybe the SEA standad is slightly different from the East Asian standard.
my family and I also use the crossing method lol
On the flip side, what's easier to manufacturer? A fork, or two sticks?
i hold pencil the same way as Garnt
Lmao I'm shocked to find out that I'm not the only one who uses the reverse method
allright i just learned that my way of using chopstick is weird since none of them use it or even mentioned it. i hold the first one with my thumb and index finger and the second with my middle and ring finger. with my grip i have both dexterity and strengh and i can move both chopstick independetly if need be.
grant over here with the inverted upside down keyboard claw technique of chopsticks but then he go 15-1
Garnt holds chopsticks like how a skilled Armored Core player holds a controller
utensil tier list
S. Spoon - can handle any workload. Connor was right, GOAT. Two things we can't reinvent, The Wheel and the Spoon.
A. Spork/Fork - Spork is lit bc of versatility, but it's jack of all trades master of none keeps it in the A tier. Hopefully sees a buff next patch. Fork is fork. stab meat chomp.
B. Chopsticks - Versatile for many things, excels in niche areas. Fun to use and acquired skill you can hold over anyone else's head. Superiority via utensil. Feel like a God when you get it right.
F. Knife - Danger given utensil form. Either super sharp or super useless.
What did we miss boys?
Man, taking them to sushi first is a brave move. I also live in the midwest, and from my experience, there is no inbetween on sushi. either you love it or cannot stand it.
What are you smoking? I grew up in the midwest. Sushi is everywhere. Lots of people eat it. Lots of people have been eating it since the 90s.
firstly, they probably already knew if they like sushi or not since it's readily available. secondly, I'm the guy that doesn't love or hate sushi. its alright. just rice and fish.
Fr, my parents idea of getting Asian food is like panda express and that's about as adventurous as they get
In the great plains there's two types of people: those who like fish and those who will have a huge fit anytime they even see fish and loudly complain about it.
But lazer kiwi
Garnt Chopstick handle is barbaric :0
My parents cross their chopsticks and dip/rub their sushi into the pickled ginger I can't 😆
Ive seen a lot of techniques but Garnt's is giving my arthritis
i use chopsticks similar to garnt but 3 fingers instead. both chopsticks go in between thumb index and middle finger and the chopsticks kinda cross as well
Using hands is superior
Garnt is the only other person I've ever seen use the same chopstick method as me, thank GOD lol
I actually also used to, before I correct it. Though I can't seem to go back anymore
I learned using chopsticks last year. First time I used it for Ramen. I struggled for 5-10 mins cuz I literally had no idea how to use it. I've only seen how to use chopsticks in anime that also never paid too much attention to it. I thought it wud be same as using fork or knife but It was so hard for me that I just wrapped noodles around it and somehow forced my way through it. After that I used it multiple times and it got easier each time but still had no idea about the right way until I saw this vdo.
I only ever tip restaurants not everything wth
NO MORE TOOLS!! LET'S RETURNED TO USING HAND!!!
with how much i solder and wish to have a third or even fourth hand i really should learn how to use chopsticks
FFS, I hold pencil like Garnt.
I'm a barbarian monk.
I just learned how to use chopsticks. I can't believe you only need to use one motion to use them
When I was young, I used to hold chopsticks across the palm and grip things by moving the bottom stick with my thumb.
Lmao and there's me I called it Rock Lee style chopstick tech. I grip one stick w/ my index and middle finger the other stick w/ my ring and pinky finger lol
I use the exact same method as garnt
Should buy the plastic ones that work like tongs
i just realised why i always get cramps in my hand when using chopsticks properly. I'm left handed but use my right hand for everything non-writing related so my right hand doesnt have those pen-grip muscles developed. I don't use chopsticks enough either.
I don't know if this would get me weird looks in Japan but one of my friends gave me an eye opening tip when it came to dipping your nigiri sushi in soy sauce and that was to actually remove the fish from the rice (with your chopsticks), dip the fish into the soy sauce, and then put the fish back on the bed of rice, pick up the whole thing, and eat it. Oh my god is it so much easier - no sushi falling apart and getting rice in the soy sauce... etc.
My father showed me the correct method when I was a kid but I copied him wrong and it was only several years later we realized that I acquired a broken form, so I got a brute force method instead. Also the talk about your pencil hand influencing your chopstick hand can't even apply since I use sticks with my left hand even though I write with my right hand.
Chopsticks are to lightsabers as knife and fork is to blasters.
too funny to hear japan being described as asia hard mode
When I was a child I used to use chopsticks the way Garnt did, but then my mom beat that out of me so I wouldn't embarrass the family in public
Tf I hold my pencils like Garnt, the pencils is resting at my ring finger but my middle finger kinda sticking out like the way Garnt holds the chopsticks.
The 'correct' way Garnt says, yet is still holding it wrong even then.
I was using chopsticks improperly until 10 or so. The improper way just suddenly felt so uncomfortable idk why.
I have proper metal sporks and usually use them for salad and rice.
I know I'm late but Garnt. SAME. As a Malaysian, no one ever taught how to use a chopstick. So I brute force my way to use them and ended pretty much using the same way you do😅
Talkin about eatin rice with chopsticks or spoons… here in Italy we eat it with forks
I hold my chopsticks like Joey does but my index finger doesn’t touch the top chopstick for most of the time I’m using the utensils. I will rest it on top of my thumb nail or just hold it above.
I started off by laughing at grant and his stupid way of holding the chopsticks then i realize i do the same shit lmao
I own a Titanium Spork.
Many tutorials on Internet show it as on thumbnail, and that's wrong. You need the bottom one to be stable without any effort, and then the top one must freely move. To do that, you need to support the bottom one with the tip of ring finger. Try to pick up hard-boiled egg..
I was lucky to have a Japanese class in high school and our teacher sat us down one class to learn how to use chopsticks on bowls of steamed rice.
I have a method, where I hold the chopsticks, but I don't even use the 4th (ring) finger. It feels way stronger and more accurate compared to my family and friends (and generally everyone else), I can part the chopsticks way wider. I'm sure there's someone out there who uses the same method I do.
Yup, I only use two fingers and a thumb too. Just now realized from this video that the proper way involves the ring finger.
Pro Tip: Chopsticks are just two-tined forks that are separated, and really big.
I used to do the cross method as a kid, until on my 20s I learned there's the proper way, so I worked through that and now idk how to do the cross technique anymore. It was even explained that you hold your chopsticks as you hold a pen, like it said on the video.
I'm self taught, and ended up with the "proper" technique, but I using my middle/ring finger instead of my index finger. On the other hand, I hold a pencil exactly like Garnt. My conclusion is that it's primarily due to how you learn it.
That said, there's something to be said about eating from a wooden utensil. Maybe it's just me, but plain white rice tastes strange when I eat it off of a metal utensil.
spork is a master of none
can't stab properly
can't scoop properly
can't cut properly
My mum legit spent days trying to get me to use the cross technique and I just gave up. One day, I tried holding one out of boredom and figured out Joey's technique in a matter of minutes.
I love using chopsticks for food that I should technically use a fork with, e.g. salad or random pasta or even some snack you usually would use your hands with. Its just so much more fun and in some cases saves me from getting my hands dirty. Oh and it helps me stay used to using them, even if I'm not eating much asian food for a while. I guess thats a huge obstacle for a lot of people, because unless you did it your whole life its not really like riding a bike...you will forget how to use chopsticks.
There's two chop stick techniques: pincer and criss-cross.