spork | The Loadout Room

This may be the last utensil you’ll ever need. Okay, that might be an overstatement if this is the only thing you have and you’re trying to eat a porterhouse. If you happen to carry a knife as an EDC (everyday carry), then your set on all eating fronts. In the ultralight age of weight saving, the Sea to Summit Titanium Folding Spork doesn’t cut any corners on quality or versatility.

Weighing at 17 grams (0.6 oz), the Sea to Summit Titanium Folding Spork weighs less then a standard toothbrush. Due to its folding feature, the spork easily fits inside of a stove pot or any small pocket. I like to keep my in the burner carry bag of my JetBoil MiniMo, which stores nicely within the pot. Due to their length, I can’t do that with a normal sized camping fork, spoon, knife, or spork. Like many times in the past, keeping this with my stove now prevents me from forgetting a utensil. No more eating directly from the bag or pot again.

If you are a world traveler or an ultralight junkie, this spork is too convenient not to have as an essential piece of kit. For the soldier, never again will you have to use the “super high quality” plastic utensils that come with an MRE. The Sea to Summit Titanium Folding Spork also comes with a small attachment carabiner, so you can clip the spork to just about anything and forget about misplacing it.

The sliding bar easily locks the folding handle into place and won’t collapse on you when digging through those thick meals. The spork portion is nice and deep and works well with even soup. On the downside, when full extended, the overall length is quite short and makes eating out of dehydrated or freeze dried bag a bit messy. Overall, if you are looking for a superlight utensil option to take with you anywhere, the Sea to Summit Titanium Folding Spork could be your new go-to. For a reasonable price of $16.95, you can purchase the spork here.

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The world of self-defense and prepping requires us to keep our eye out for anything that could serve more than one purpose; especially when it comes to using things as weapons.

The UST Spork Multi-Tool cost less than $3 at Wal-Mart. I found it in the camping department. It is s solid piece of aluminum and has a unique shape that lends itself to being held in your hand in both directions. There are cut-outs for uses as a wrench, bottle opener, and edges to be used as a flat head screwdriver and of course a spoon or fork (spork). It also comes with a small carabiner that allows you to attach it to your key chain or pants belt loop.

Now when you teach combatives, as I do, and when you have faced a few bad guys as a law enforcement officer and special events security professional, you see what others may not. When I saw this little tool I immediately perceived it as being a very useful and discreet non-dedicated or improvised weapon.

This tool may be held in your hand and used to strike the throat, eyes, temple, ears, or under the chin. Something like this might not seem to be able to do much damage but used correctly it can blind or even possible kill an attacker.

Improvised Weapons – The UST Spork Multi-Tool — UST Spork in the hand

I teach a course strictly in the use of improvised weapons and how to locate them anywhere and everywhere. Once you have been trained in the fundamentals of using an impact weapon or edged weapon, you then can see the limitless possibilities of everything around you in the natural world.

Look for more articles on improvised weapons and their uses coming at you in the future. Even though I like to have the advantage over the attacker, I still enjoy being discreet about it!