11791 KEatlery Weighted Dinnerware Fork

I lost in the lottery as to who in my family would or would not inherit a moderate tremor that tends to become detectable sometime in the late 50s or early 60s and starts to interfere with activities that demand a rock steady hand after another decade or so—for those family members unlucky enough to have managed to inherit the trait. Nobody knows the cause. Regardless of all that, one effect at mealtimes was that now and then a bit of food balanced atop a fork, or even in a full spoon, would fall off during moments of inattention—not enough to interfere with eating; but it happened often enough to cause embarrassment when the dropped food would land on a shirt front, lap, or floor.I decided to try the added-mass fork and spoon. My first fear, that they would be ugly and clumsy to handle did not materialize. They actually look quite sleek, and they really do work. Although their added mass doesn’t eliminate the tremors, it has toned down the movement enough to pretty well eliminate the food dropping problem—at least at my present stage of the game.There’s one caution. They ARE heavy—each weighing somewhat more than a small finishing hammer we keep in our kitchen tool drawer. You don’t want to casually toss either utensil into a sink full of soaking dishes. I think it would also be wise to guard against falls onto laminate or other flooring that might be subject to chipping or denting.If a tremor is so sever that ice cream intended for the mouth often ends up in the eye, these utensils will probably not help very much. But for the considerable number of people for whom a developing tremor is at a stage where it is just starting to cause problems, I recommend them highly.I have submitted an identical review separately for both the fork and spoon.