An item of cutlery, in particular a spoon, fork or knife with a head, a stem formed of a shaft component as well as at least one handle piece, wherein the shaft component is connected to the head, as well as to a guidance device with guidance elements (8, 10, 24, 25) by means of which the longitudinal extent of the stem is formed so that its length is alterable, in particular telescopically, from a shortened storage position to an elongated usage position by a relative shift of the handle piece in relation to the shaft component, and with at least one snap-in locking device arranged between the handle piece and the shaft component, with locking elements (15, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32) cooperating in at least one of the positions (storage position or usage position), wherein a first guidance element of the guidance device is formed of a first guidance surface formed on the shaft component and a second guidance element is formed of a first guidance web, which first guidance web is arranged at a distance in vertical direction in relation to the first guidance surface and, at the edge in the region of longitudinal end face of the handle piece, is connected to the shaft component in order to form a guidance channel, wherein the guidance device is arranged on an end of the shaft component which faces away from the head and the first guidance web further forms a first locking element of the snap-in locking device and wherein the guidance device comprises a second guidance web which in relation to the guidance channel is arranged at a distance opposite the first guidance web as well as on the side of the shaft component facing away from the head, and the first guidance web is offset in relation to the second guidance web in the direction of the longitudinal extent of the shaft component, wherein the first guidance web, in the longitudinal direction of the shaft component, is arranged nearer the head than the second guidance web, and wherein the shaft component has a first breakthrough on the side of the guidance channel located opposite the first guidance web, by which the second guidance web is arranged at a distance in longitudinal extension of the shaft component, characterised in that the guidance device further comprises a third guidance web as well as a fourth guidance web, wherein, in relation to the guidance channel, the third and fourth guidance webs (18, 19) are arranged opposite each other as well as arranged at a distance, respectively, in the direction of the longitudinal extent of the shaft component, on the side of the first as well as the second guidance webs (11, 16) facing away from the head, and that between the first guidance web and the third guidance web, a second breakthrough is formed, wherein a second cross-section surface of the second breakthrough corresponds with a projection surface of the second guidance web in a vertical direction on the flat side of the handle piece, and that between the second guidance web and the fourth guidance web a third breakthrough is formed, wherein a third cross-section surface of the third breakthrough corresponds with a projection surface of the third guidance web in a vertical direction on the flat side of the handle piece, and that the handle piece has a third locking element and a fourth locking element set apart from one another on the surface of the handle piece facing the head as well as on the flat side facing the first guidance web protruding vertically over this flat surface as well as in the direction of the longitudinal extent of the handle piece, between which a locking recess is formed, in which in the usage position the first locking element formed by the first guidance web is received in a snap-in locking manner, and that the handle piece, on the side of the handle piece facing away from the head on the flat surface turned towards the second guidance web, has at least one fourth locking element protruding vertically over the said flat surface, which in the shortened storage position engages in a snap-in locking manner, either in the first breakthrough arranged between the shaft component and the second guidance element, or in the third breakthrough arranged between the second guidance web and the fourth guidance web, the components bordering the first breakthrough or the second breakthrough in the longitudinal direction of the shaft component thus respectively forming further locking elements (31, 32).