| 1. | Prick warm cake with long-tined fork, completely to bottom of cake.
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| 2. | Poke holes in top of warm cake with skewer or long-tined fork.
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| 3. | The plates would have been accompanied with small two-or three-tined oyster forks.
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| 4. | Serve as chunks or chop it up using cleaver or shred with two long-tined forks.
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| 5. | Forks, electric serrated knives, special tined cutters or a strong thread should be used instead.
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| 6. | To test for doneness, stick a 2-tined meat fork into the thickest part of the brisket.
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| 7. | Sometimes, gadgets with small hollow-tined for specialised jobs such as aerating the lawn are also available.
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| 8. | Dummy heads or pick-up headers feature spring-tined pickups, usually attached to a heavy rubber belt.
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| 9. | Food was eaten from wooden or pewter trenchers with two-tined forks, large spoons, and hunting knives.
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| 10. | By the mid-1700s, the curved four-tined model evolved, proving much more utilitarian than the original design.
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