What Do You Use Your Chopsticks For Other Than Simply Eating?

I am being lazy because I posted this as a response to Lusia Kims forum, WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE KITCHEN GADGETS FOR UNder $30? https://permies.com/t/210696/permaculture-home-care-cleaning/purity/favorite-kitchen-gadgets

Thank you Lusia Kim for reminding me of how fun that free can be.
My "Favorite Kitchen gadget for under a $30?"...
Hands down favorite, most versatile, used to fix so many broke its, rolled under the fridge, under the counter, fell in the drain cant get it outs, have to get in the bottle to clean it outs, need a dowel in a pinch, birdhouse needs a perch, have to reach into the fish pond for algae, or didn't remember to bring silverware with the lunch box, hold my long hair in a bun MAN BUN style when I had long hair LOL , need to cheat to start a fire with a cordless power drill because I'm to lazy to use a bow drill, and they are usually FREE?!???

Well that's an easy one, I LOVE LOVE LOVE my free chopsticks that come with my delivery of Asian dinners. I have used chopsticks for all of the above mentioned things and so much more.

Curious question to you and anyone else reading this, what do you use your extra chopsticks for?

I use a chopstick to stir my sourdough starter! I feed just enough for one loaf so about 100g in total in a old honey jar, so the chopstick is perfect for the job!

I have no place to order Asian dinner except in the frozen food aisle at the grocery store so I don't get free chopsticks.

I usually make my own chow mein.  I love egg rolls though I have not tried to make them.

I do have two pairs.

I use them when canning to get the bubbles out before processing.

The first thing I thought of was scraping/stirring dehydrated spice powders when the clump up in the bottom of the jar. But I also use them for everything -- staking young peppers when they're starting to get leggy but it's too early to take them out; scratching hard to reach parts of my back; as a trivet to keep a hot pan off the counter; like Saana, I stir sourdough after feeding; poking little holes in seed-starting soil; cleaning gunk out of grooves (from dead flies in the window-frames to the oily sawdust that cakes up around the saw's drive-gear); etc.

I like to tuck them under my upper lip, and make exaggerated vampire faces and poses at myself in the mirror when I am bored.. which is ALMOST never.

I am another chopstick sourdough starter stirrer.

I keep chopsticks in my purse, my vehicles, and my toolboxes. In purse and vehicles I have two sets, one marked for eating only, one as tools. In the toolboxes I have them as tools.

I use them for things like holding washers in place while I try to get screws in, fishing things out of places they have dropped (like bolts out of cracks in engines) as shims, to punch holes in cardboard, to pin easy release knots, to hold things in chicken wire... the list goes on. I generally have several sets around me.

As I type this, I'm messing with something this morning, I'm about to drill a couple of quick holes in some tubing while sitting here at my desk. I need a support inside a light metal tube, so it's been filled with pencils and chopsticks to stabilize it while I drill holes. So they are in use first thing in the morning, as I drink my tea, and were just grabbed off the desk.

And I eat with them. I carry a pocketknife, keep spoons all over the place, and chopsticks. Between them I can eat anything at any time.

Ah, the blessings of free chopsticks in quantity! As I don't ever use delivery of take out, I find myself inside the food establishments. Or at the least at their drive up window. When we go for Chinese food, my significant other doesn't use them, and I have a nice purchased set to use for eating with, I get several extra sets to use for the "off-label" purposes! In preparation for the move, I've tossed the excess to save a bit of space.

That said, I have used my supplies of chopsticks for plant supports while young, or supports for a saran-wrap cover in lieu of a rigid plastic cover when I need to tent seedlings to maintain moisture. Great size for dibbing small holes for seeds to go into. Marking the rows in a raised bed, or use for indoor starts to remind you which type of seed is in which planting. For this I often add a length of tape in flag fashion having written the name and date on the tape.

Much stronger than the wooden shish-kebob sticks offered for the purpose.  Good kindling in a pinch.

I suppose one "could" use them for a small, makeshift weaving loom, but I've not tried.

Pearl Sutton wrote: I keep chopsticks in my purse, my vehicles, and my toolboxes. In purse and vehicles I have two sets, one marked for eating only, one as tools. In the toolboxes I have them as tools.

I use them for things like holding washers in place while I try to get screws in, fishing things out of places they have dropped (like bolts out of cracks in engines) as shims, to punch holes in cardboard, to pin easy release knots, to hold things in chicken wire... the list goes on. I generally have several sets around me.

As I type this, I'm messing with something this morning, I'm about to drill a couple of quick holes in some tubing while sitting here at my desk. I need a support inside a light metal tube, so it's been filled with pencils and chopsticks to stabilize it while I drill holes. So they are in use first thing in the morning, as I drink my tea, and were just grabbed off the desk.

And I eat with them. I carry a pocketknife, keep spoons all over the place, and chopsticks. Between them I can eat anything at any time.

Great minds think alike! I have chopsticks all over the place, too - and use them in a lot of the same ways. I use them for stirring things in skinny places, like cups or tall glasses or cans - be it food, paints, or whatever; as hair sticks, shawl sticks, propping a lid or door open 'just' a little bit; reaching for things; turning fabric corners and tubes; pushing stuffing firmly into tiny corners (in making stuffies); as a back scratcher; scratching the itch inside a cast (that one has been a long time ago, for me, but I give them to friends and family who end up stuck in a cast, too).  I've used them as shims, to fill gaps in cabinetry, that caused doors to be 'off'. I one used one to keep my husky-chow mix in the back seat, so I could safely get him to the vet, long before doggie seat belts existed. I trapped the handle of his shortest leash in the window, then hooked the leash to his harness. Not a perfect solution, but it got us to the vet, in an emergency.