Abstract: A utensil such as a lobster fork, or lobster pick includes a handle and at least one tine having a plurality of substantially frustro-conical members end-to-end, each of progressively larger diameter from the first, or tip, member through the second member to a third member, the three members forming an enlarged barbed spear head at the end of each tine. The base of each member is dished and concave, the peripheral outer edge of each member is blunt and rounded and there are three elongated grooves spaced 120.degree. apart extending along the tapered members of the spear head.