Talk:Embolist/@comment-70.241.31.35-20131021084441/@comment-11753608-20131022173956

Spoons are circular or oval-shaped and have a concave surface with a dull edge, while knives are oblong, sometimes with a point at the end, with at least one sharp edge.

There. I compared them. Of course you can compare them. The issue is you must recognize the strengths and uses of each. A more apt analogy would be to say, "I don't try to eat soup with a knife or cut a steak with a spoon.  Don't expect the Acrid and Embolist to do the same jobs either." But it is possible to compare them.