Cutlery drawer order

[LumpyandBumps]

I saw a post on Facebook recently where a poster showed a photo of a cutlery tray from a holiday cottage, and was having trouble resisting rearranging it.

Other than it being a bit untidy I couldn’t see what was wrong with it, and I wasn’t alone.

Many posters, however, were adamant that the cutlery was in the wrong order, and that only knife, fork, spoon could be correct.

I had a look at my own cutlery tray and it turns out that it complies to this rule.
I have no idea how.

Is a set order a ‘thing’?

We need a diagram @LumpyandBumps

It's always knife fork spoon. It's the law.

Mine is fork knife spoon, life on the edge!

I do spoon, fork, knife!

Mine too

Knife, fork, spoon and the small section for tea spoons 😁

Me too

I had to check ours as thought it was fork, knife, spoon but no it's knife, fork spoon. Makes sense as the knives are flat they ought to be on one side or the other.

That’s what I have. The Facebook post didn’t show/ mention teaspoons. Maybe I’ll never know the correct place for them 🤣

Surely fork, knife, spoon so that you go left to right ready to lay the table?

Or have I been doing this wrong all my life? 😁

mine lie horizontally - am i going to hell? blame ikea

@LumpyandBumps we should start a whole new thread 😂😂😂or would it be a sub division hmmmm 😂😂

That's my logic, fork, knife, table spoons and then teaspoons in the little section along the bottom.

My logic is that spoons are (generally) used first, daily - for breakfast. At dinner we often only use fork and knife, so I like them be at left and right in 'their' space in the drawer.

That's my day-to-day cutlery, though. I have a naice set that we use when I fancy it or depending on what tableware I'm using (2 or 3 times a week). That set stays in its own box and each piece has its own slot. I'm looking to get another special set and I'll probably put that in a cutlery wrap.

I used to keep all our cutlery standing on end in a utensil jar and that actually worked really well. So easy to put things away.

So when you are looking into the cutlery drawer it's knives on the left, forks in the middle, large spoons on the right.
Small spoons and wee pastry forks in a space at the back.
Large carving knives, peelers etc in the large space furthest right.

Tis definitely knife, fork, spoon - my tray has pictures on!

Mine is fork knife spoon with the little section for tea spoons at the bottom.
The teaspoons go with the bowl bit to the left

Ours is spoons, forks, knives

Small slot at the front for teaspoons

Large section on the left for other random items

Fork, knife, spoon.

Yes spoon , fork , knife.

My cutlery draw is laid out as you would lay a table. Knives on the right (steak, dinner, salad, dessert, etc), forks on the left (again in order), spoons far right after the knives. It makes it quicker to lay the table. Yes, it is a very wide drawer with lots of compartments!

Mine goes knife fork spoons and teaspoons in the little section at the front. The opposite drawer is a mis match of old sharp knives, serving spoons, ladle, potato masher and scone cutters and various other crap. It's in no particular order either and doesn't fully open so each time I go in it becomes even more un organised than the last.

My cutlery drawer is horizontal not vertical so from front to back teaspoons, forks, knives, spoons. Not sure if that's the best way. I use teaspoons more than anything else though.

Ours is forks spoons knives 🙈🤣

Yep ours is .....knife, forks, big spoons, little spoons

Though half are in the dishwasher at the moment and I've just removed a new set as they were so big (think a good inch longet) than the old set and the wright was too much for the drawer

The tray is ancient and we could do with a new one but so many waste space