Calling all lefties !!!

[MummyMayo1988]

AMBU to say DH is wrong?!

Ok so my DH and I have been having this argument forever!
I am a leftie and he is right handed. Two of our DC are also right handed (third is only 6 months and still undecided).
I hold my fork in LEFT hand and knife in RIGHT hand - argument being that you do more with your dominant hand and therefore the fork should be in it.
He also holds fork in LEFT hand - arguing you do more with the KNIFE and therefore it should be in dominant hand.
Who is right?!
I'd like to also add that we have recently discovered that DC1 (right-handed) holds fork in RIGHT hand. We asked him why and his exact words were - because you do more with the fork and it should be in RIGHT hand.

According to a study DH found online; around 75% of lefties hold fork in LEFT hand too 🤷‍♀️

Any lefties out there do the same?!
Or am I and DC1 - according to DH - completely bonkers?! 😜

Please help us put this to bed MN! This lefty needs your help!

❤

All righties here, (although youngest does swap between the two), and hold forks in left hand and knife in right.

Hold my fork in my left hand. DP is a leftie and does the same. However all my family are right handed and hold fork in their left hand too.

Whatalovelypear my brother is quite ambidextrous so I think he did the adapting thing. I was more stubborn. I think we get it from our grandad who was very ambidextrous because he was naturally left handed but of the generation that had the their left hand tied behind their back if they tried to write with it.

I'm left handed and I hold my fork in my left and knife in my right. My mum is left handed and does the same.
I think maybe my mum taught me to do it that way as that's what "most" people do.
Was just thinking, if I was chopping food up prepping a meal I'd use my left hand to hold the knife though.

I do however play pool/ snooker with my right hand. Because my dad taught me how to play I think. DP plays with his left he's actually naturally right handed but broke his collar bone as a young child and had to use his left hand for a very long time so it became dominant and he's a leftie now

I write with my left hand but pretty much everything else I do the right handed way, or I can alternate between the two.

Does that make me ambidextrous?

I’m predominantly left handed, hold a pen, tennis racket and scissors in my left hand type of left handed - but I hold my cutlery in the ‘correct’ hands because it’s easier if you’re eating out etc. but if I have a spoon, fork - no knife, or chopsticks then it’s in my left hand because I have better control that way. My DH is a leftie but otherwise is ambidextrous - I had all the doors in our house and kitchen reversed so they work better for us as lefties

Lefty here - fork in left hand knife in right for me

I am right handed - the only one in a family of left handers. We hold our forks in the left hand and knifes in the right hand. However I iron, carve, cut bread, hand sew and use scissors as if I was left handed, but using my right hand. I do this weird twisted elbow & wrist thing to get my hand facing the right way. Even to me it looks wrong.

I am a leftie and also hold my fork in my left hand op.

DF ls left handed. Fork in right hand, knife in left. We always have his place setting the "other way round". -FFS never say the wrong way round-

I'm a leftie and I use my left hand for a fork/spoon. However, if I need to cut anything I transfer the fork to my right hand, use left for knife then switch fork back to left to eat.

Lefties here and my forks in my left and my fork is the dominant one !

Ooo interesting. I'm right handed and fork in right hand. Two sons left handed and they use for in left hand. İ never really laid attention to DH. İ will check tomorrow

Omg i got my left and right muddled up i use my fork in my right. Boys fork in left

I'm a lefty and so is dh.

Like you, and with the same justification, I hold my fork in my left hand and my knife in my right (if I'm using a knife and a fork). I use a knife on its own in my left hand (eg to butter bread). I use a spoon on its own in my left hand. Where I come unstuck is with desserts that require a spoon and a fork as I don't know how to hold either of them in my right hand: I end up with the spoon in my left hand and the fork sort of ineffectually trying to shove dessert on to the spoon (usually, I'll try to cope with just the spoon).

Dh on the other hand uses his fork in his right hand and the knife in his left he's wrong - and our right handed ds does the same . But dh will use a knife or spoon (on their own) in his left hand, whereas right hand ds will use his right hand for the spoon or knife.

Ds is 18 now so I doubt he will change

Dh always swaps his place setting to have the fork on the right he's wrong and expects those that know him to set his place appropriately.

Etiquette dictates left hand for fork and right hand for knife when both pieces of cutlery are used so that's the main reason I do it that way. I'm also a lefty but my family of right-handers do the same.

I think if you're being informal and 'scooping' with just a fork and no knife then you can just put the fork in your dominant hand though!

I'm with you. If I held my fork in my right hand, I'd probably stab myself in the nose, or something.

Leftie here! I’m the same as you but equally my right-handed family will do the same way except for my sister. Actually my paralysed hand is my left one so technically I use just a fork in my right now!

Yep, fork in my left hand, knife in my right - but this is the standard table setting (therefore right handed), - the pressure is on the knife, ie right hand, I guess. we just seem to get used to it. At a very early age.
Still do everything else left handed (slicing bread etc, think it's just what we get used to(.

To be fair, my Grandparents were rather 'proper' so I suspect I didn't have a choice but to learn the 'correct' way to use cutlery, although my Gran was great at courting me left handed scissors, fountain pens and tin openers etc as I grew up which have been incredibly useful, I do struggle with a lot of things that are inherently right-handed.

I’m right handed but it’s still fork in left knife in right, unless I’m having a Chinese takeaway then I will use fork in right hand

I can pull pints with both hands

@Mytupenceworth is correct, it's an etiquette/convention thing. I'm a leftie and was just taught to hold my fork in my left hand, knife in the right. Doesn't make any difference generally, except I can't do spaghetti with my right, just can't twirl it.

i don't find scissors, tin openers an issue, I've never bothered with left-handed ones. I suppose I don't know what I'm missing!

I'm left-handed and hold my fork in right hand, knife in left. Switched when a child from the "proper" way of holding cutlery because I was struggling to use a knife with my right hand.