Toaks Titanium Long Handle Spoon Camping Utensil Review

Bottom Line

Long has this spoon reigned! Our CleverHiker staff have been loving the Toaks Titanium Long Handle Spoon even before we became official gear analysts. For thousands of miles and hundreds of trail meals, this has been the MVP in our backpacking kitchen quiver. 

Unlike smaller, more packable camping silverware, this 8.5-inch spoon is able to reach into the deepest depths of any backpacking meal, leaving no morsel unchomped. Adding to its plate-scraping efficiency, it has no spork prongs for food to slip through. Toaks’ signature brushed titanium makes for an ultra-strong, ultralight, and pretty darn comfortable handle. However, we prefer the polished spoon bowl for ease of cleaning and a pleasant mouthfeel.

As usual, Toaks is delivering a ton of value at a very reasonable price with the Titanium Long Handle Spoon. It’s an easy, mid-level silverware investment for any level or style of backpacker. While we think this utensil is the one to beat, other options might better suit your use case. See our guide to the best camping utensils for the complete lineup.

How We Tested

This has been our culinary companion from thru-hiking the Green Mountains of the Long Trail to trekking the Spanish Pyrenees. 

We’ve shoveled literal tons of food into our faces with these camping utensils over the years. As objectively as possible, we evaluate all the characteristics that matter in camping cutlery – from mouth feel to functionality and weight.

Functionality

The Toaks Titanium Long Handle Spoon provides a ton of reach and excellent scoopability. It’s one of the best utensils for extracting every last calorie out of the creases and corners of dehydrated meal packages, thanks to its 8.5-inch handle and uniquely shaped spoon. The length also helps keep your hands nice and clean.

The squarish end of the spoon may seem odd at first, but the squarish shape is very handy for cleaning the walls of pots and pouches. Also, the blunted tip rests flush against a pot wall, allowing you to scrape more surface area at a time. 

The spoon is mostly flat, without much depth to it, but its capacity is much larger than it looks. It’s small enough to be comfortable for all mouth sizes, but fits about 6mL of liquid in its bowl – right on average for a backpacking spoon. 

If you’re a big fan of stabbing your food, you might be disappointed with the Toaks Titanium Long Handle Spoon. Toaks does offer a spork option, which we’ve tried as well. The spork gives you a little extra stabbing action for foods that can’t be scooped, but you lose a little bit of scraping and cleaning capability.

Design

Toaks makes some of the best titanium cookware for backpacking, and their cutlery is no exception. The Long Handle Spoon is beautifully designed for comfort and efficiency. It carries food and cleans pots wonderfully.

The brushed titanium handle provides a comfortable and grippy texture to hold while shoveling down desperately needed calories after a long hike. They offer a version where the spoon has the same brushed texture as the handle, but we much prefer the polished spoon version. It’s easier to clean, feels familiar like home silverware, and doesn’t have a gritty mouth feel. It’s much less likely to leave behind streaks or residue of food. While other materials require a bit of scrubbing to get totally clean, the polished bowl comes to a shine with just a couple extra licks at the end of a meal.

Our only gripe with the handle design is that the edges are slightly sharp, which can be uncomfortable at times.

Construction

We really have zero complaints about the construction of the Toaks Titanium Long Handle Spoon. It’s durable, functional, and should last a lifetime so long as you keep track of it. The titanium is mildly flexible but sturdy thanks to the built-in handle ridge. Unlike brittle plastic, titanium will bend instead of snapping.

The brushed titanium is comfortable on the hand, and although it’s technically scratchable, it doesn’t have any coating to flake off into your food. The effect of a polished bowl is that it is much smoother and more durable.

Weight & PAckability

The Toaks Titanium Long Handle Spoon isn’t the lightest utensil on our list, but it’s incredibly light for its durability and length. At about 0.71 oz (20 g), it’s slightly above average for a single utensil, but we think it’s worth every gram for its functionality and durability. 

The downside to excellent reachability in a long spoon is its not-so-good packability. Although you’ll have to consider where you’ll pack your long handle spoon (we like to put it in our food bag or in an outside pocket), its skinny handle slides effortlessly between gear, and it doesn’t have any fork prongs to stab through pack material. If you can’t find a pocket that suits your long handle spoon, there is an oval hole at the end of the handle for hanging it on your pack. 

If you like to keep your utensils inside your cookware, a folding option is probably the move.

Should You Buy the Toaks Titanium Long Handle Spoon?

The ultralight backpacker who likes the benefits of a long handle, cleans their pot with their spoon, and doesn’t mind not having a fork will love this spoon from Toaks.

The long handle keeps your hands clean and away from your dehydrated food bags and lets you extract every bit of food from any container. The other half comes from the polished, square-shaped spoon. It’s big enough to feel like you’re getting a full bite, but small enough and strategically shaped to clean pots and pouches exceptionally well. The polished material itself is also very easy to clean.

Titanium is one of the premium materials for backpacking silverware and cookware, and Toaks is known for its superb titanium designs. The Titanium Long Handle spoon is comfortable, durable, and lightweight. For a backpacking utensil that’s sure to last a lifetime, the Toaks Titanium Long Handle Spoon is priced as a no-brainer for any backpacker.

What Other Camping Utensils Should You Consider?

If superior packability or fully functional utensil sets are more your bag, you’ll find what you’re looking for in our full guide on camping silverware.

Humangear GoBites Uno Review: The plant-based plastic GoBites Uno comes in multiple different designs, the long handle version most closely rivaling the Toaks Long Handle Spoon. It’s similar in weight and length but has both a fork and a spoon end for added functionality. 

MSR Folding Spork Review: This plastic spork has almost as much reach as the Toaks Long Handle Spoon, but with the added benefit of folding down for easy packability. The downside is its cheap and fragile plastic construction. 

Snow Peak Titanium Spork Review: Snow Peak’s Titanium Spork is an excellent alternative with a more traditional spoon shape and all of the same benefits of titanium. It’s lightweight, durable, and comfortable to use, but has a much shorter handle.