Toothpick Day #5!

Toothpicks also have plenty of uses besides removing detritus from your teeth. From wood filler to helping your gardening, toothpicks are pretty awesome little tools...

Hold a sandwich together

Restaurants do not spear club sandwiches with toothpicks just to provide a way to get bacon out of your teeth. They also serve a structural purpose in keeping sandwiches and burgers from falling apart. Serve neater sandwiches held together with toothpicks.

Make a fruit bouquet

Use toothpicks and wooden skewers to make edible arrangements of fruit or other treats.

Dress a ham

Add flavor and color to a baked ham by pinning pineapples and cherries to it with toothpicks.

Complete a martini

Toothpicks are also great for adding olives to martinis or fruit to tropical cocktails, or even a fancy way to put an orange or lemon slice in a beer.

Make food handles

Make messy appetizers and desserts easier to handle with toothpicks. You can even class them up with tiny flowers or other décor.

Differentiate foods

Use differently colored or labeled toothpicks to mark foods with different ingredients or cooked to different levels. For example, you can mark wheat and gluten-free rolls, or meat and vegetarian dumplings, or rare, medium and well-done burgers.

Design icing

The thin tip of a toothpick makes a nice "pencil" for sketching out designs and words on the cake before permanently applying your decorations in icing.