Three high-carbon stainless tines instead of the four you see on cheap forks — easier to slide into a roast, easier to clean, and tougher because the steel is concentrated in fewer points. Walnut handle is brass-riveted to a full-tang shaft, finished smooth so it stays comfortable through long Thanksgiving carving sessions.
The granny fork earns its name on roast-carving holidays — Thanksgiving turkeys, Christmas hams, Sunday roasts, anything where you need to hold something steady with one hand while a carving knife does the slicing in the other. Also useful for pulling pasta or potatoes out of boiling water, turning bacon or sausages on a griddle, and lifting whole chickens out of the oven.
Lamson has been forging cutlery and kitchen tools in Westfield, Massachusetts since 1837 — making them the oldest American knife maker still in continuous operation.