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’?

Oops forgot photo

Knives, forks, spoons right to left is what I've always done but I'm guessing that's just for right-handed people? Left-handed would be the other way round.

Forks, knives, dessert spoons and teaspoons are the back in a smaller section. Never given it much thought, it just always looked right to me, same way you set a table

Mine is spoon, knife, fork, small knife, small fork, teaspoons in front.
My cutlery tray has 6 sections.

Knife, fork, spoon only. It drives me insane when DH and DD put the cutlery away in the wrong places. How do they not noticed the correct order?!

Those doing spoon, fork knife, ( like me) are you left- handed (like me). A friend stayed with me while she was having building work done and she said my cutlery drawer was arranged "left-handed".

Spoon, fork, knife here. Right handed.

I'm right handed too.

Going left to right it’s knives, forks spoons, no separate space for teaspoons so they go in with the big ones.

Mine would explode their mind! Just me now, so combi cutlery/utensils/junk.

Wedged between tray & drawer - spatula, measures, knife oil, plastic clip
Full length far left wide - wooden untensils, mini tea taster tins
Full length next in narrow - sharp knife, sharpening block
Front right horizontal - stray lids, a peg, elastic bands, freezer pens, painkillers
Back shorter left - scissors, peeler, grater, can opener
Back shorter middle - one cutlery setting
Back shorter right - ancient fork & tablespoon, mini sieve, drink stirrer

Most of the cutlery is bundled away, near the top of a box for easy retrieval in case of visitors. Due to lack of space rather than full-blown misanthropy.

Do bad things happen because my knife and fork and dessert spoon and teaspoon are all jumbled together touching each other? It would explain a lot!

Mine is spoon, fork, knife from left to right. Any other way is unhinged 😂

My mother has spoons in the middle which is clearly wrong and does make me shudder every time I see it

Can't remember how we had the full cutlery drawer now! It's going to bug me ...

I'm radical, I have spoons , fork, knives but it's because the first tray is bigger and there's dessert spoons and soup spoons in it. Tea spoons are down the bottom

Yes mine is spoon, fork, knife but it’s because there is a much larger section to the right of the knifes that I have sharp knifes in so it looked wrong putting anything other than the knifes next to them. Then I obviously have to have the forks to their rightful place left of the knifes so spoons are out on their ear on the far left.

previous to my much bigger cutlery tray I have now I did always have knife, fork, spoon so 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫…

Love cutlery dividers.

Christ this is going to trouble me for a long time… that’s insane… that’s just so wrong - I can’t bear the image lol 🫠

You’ve just reminded me I also have a fancy set. They are knife, fork, spoon 🤣

Knives, forks, spoons, serving/jam spoons
Across them are tea spoons and cake forks

But I am happy with whatever order I encounter as long as I have at least enough for 2-3 meals without washing up.

Mine is left to right:

1. Soup and tablespoons
2. Dessert spoons
3. Forks
4. Knives

Then at the front the teaspoons.

Tea spoons, big spoons, forks, knifes. Going left to right as God intended.

Forks, knives, spoons. Knives first is madness, it doesn't reflect how they appear on the table.

I swapped the knives and forks in the cutlery drawer at work a month ago because they were wrong. Nobody's changed it yet.

I change them round on a regular basis. Easily bored.

Just remembered the years when the cutlery tray was a wooden satsuma crate lined with a tea towel, slid in on top of a mini washing machine, sat under the draining board. Multiple mismatched sets of cutlery and all the utensils jumbled randomly together. Total chaos! (Sharp knives kept on a high shelf though.)

I sometimes browse pictures of huge wide drawers with bespoke wooden dividers in handcrafted kitchens.

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