What is this utensil and why are they no longer in stores?

[TrogL]

Salad fork for comparison. I mislaid mine but found it in the bottom of a drawer.

https://pin.it/48Yms7j

[Lars39]

1. Pic not showing, Trog

[procon]

2. Ditto

[TrogL]

3. Try again

[applegrove]

4. That is for carving a turkey. I think. Would have been part of a set with

a huge knife and a sharpener. They would have come in a box lined with fabric. You don't need three holes in a turkey to stabilize it for carving. Stabilizing it with a huge fork with two tines is good enough.

[ailsagirl]

5. Toasting fork?

Serving fork? Scroll down

https://www.homenish.com/types-of-forks/#:~:text=Toasting%20forks%20are%20used%20for,some%20types%20will%20have%20three.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Looks like a carving fork.

[hlthe2b]

13. Yes. It is a carving fork. I have my late Mother's that was part of a kife set.

Some barbeque utensil sets have them too.

[Lars39]

7. Mom used to use it to turn meat

or to help carve a roast or chicken.

[haele]

8. Carving fork, typically comes as part of a knife set.

You can get them, just not individually. The three prong one is a carving server.

Haele

[fierywoman]

9. I use one of these to turn (a little larger) pieces of meat.

[Wolf Frankula]

10. that's a meat fork

We have one and use it a lot.

Wolf

[Backseat Driver]

11. I call mine the "pig sticker"

It's a large and sharp two-tined fork with a large black open handle at the end. I use it most often to lift a bird or roast out of the roasting pan and then hold the meat down for carving on a carving board. It's usually buried on the bottom of my utensil drawer or along the side -- it's that sharp and pointy! Never recall that it had a carving knife that matched????? so it's probably going on 50 years old. It might have come with other larger utensils - a large slotted spoon and a large ladle may be made of the same handle material. I call it out of the drawer by its name just like I call my vegetable peeler..."Here, peeler, peeler, peeler." Both respond by magically appearing in the chaos of other utensils, gadgets, and special knives for, say, watermelon, boning fish, or the cleaver for whacking ribs apart. It's really quite dangerous to go rummaging in those kitchen drawers, so I call to them instead. It works! Made me look - on back: SEAPS Stainless JAPAN.

[lillypaddle]

12. I have several of these

I use them when carving a ham or poultry to stabilize the meat. I also use them to transfer heavier pieces of meat to a serving platter. Also good for grilling as it keeps you away from the heat and flames. A very practical and useful item, never thought of it as an oddity.

You can find them here:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=large+carving+fork&crid=H3B7VZWY8BLZ&sprefix=large+carving+fork%2Caps%2C229&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_18