Using A Knife And Fork Correctly

[dave50]

Has anyone else noticed how a lot of young people these days don't know how to hold a knife and fork correctly? Especially the fork, they have some strange ways of holding it.

[RATTER15]

As for people holding their fork in a fist!! I could spit blood, Grrr

[snags]

You need to hold it like that... and also the knife... so you can bang them both on the table whilst shouting 'why are we waiting'...

[Dizmo]

I've always held my knife in my right hand because I'm right handed and have more control over getting the food to my mouth and not straight into my eyeball. The same rule applies to any type of cutlery if only one item is used. The fork if used on its own is used in the right hand. The rule becomes slightly harder for noodles though, I use a spoon and a fork, fork in right hand. Someone once insisted I used my knife and fork the other way around so out of politeness I did but after about 30 seconds I unconsciously switched them back and didn't realise :/

[2sp_]

I always hold my fork in my right hand, knife in left. My dad used to get a real bee in his bonnet about it when I was young. Tried to get me to swap them round but I just couldn't do it. Led to long standoffs at mealtimes...

[beso]

2sp // My dad used to get a real bee in his bonnet about it when I was young.//

Clearly there was a considerable amount of mental illness in that generation.

[2sp_]

Bit harsh, beso. Some people just see it as being more important than others do. I think some find it to be part of a bigger issue regarding etiquette, manners and behaviour. I just think it's about how you eat your tea.

[snags]

tea? tea? Surely you mean dinner ;-p

[2sp_]

It's tea when you eat at home, dinner if you eat out... ;-)

[beso]

I remember my parents trying to get me to use the "proper" technique to eat meat and veg.

Cut some meat, push some of each veg onto it and eat.

Made no sense to me. I argued that every bite would taste the same if I did that and continued to eat the veges individually with my fork in my right hand.

[beso]

// I just think it's about how you eat your tea.//

One drinks tea.

[-Talbot-]

I've followed this thread with great interest, some interesting opinions on knife and fork etiquette........personally I will stick to the spear in the left hand and the club in my right hand.

[beso]

Remember the "splade"

That must have been seen as the devil's creation to some.

[beso]

//personally I will stick to the spear in the left hand and the club in my right hand//

Indeed. This was no doubt the original etiquette before the invention of cutlery.

[beso]

Hmmm. Apparently a "Splayd" (to use the registered trade mark) is an Australian thing.

Americans argued that it was jut another name for a "spork".

However they are mistaken. A spork is a spoon crossed with a fork. A Splayd has a cutting edge.

[Dizmo]

A Splayd?! How stupid an invention. I'd up giving myself a Chelsea Smile using one of those.