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!

❤

Can I ask

If you have a knife and fork, which hand do you use?
BUT if you have just a fork, does it change?

Leftie here too. Fork in left and knife in right because that was the way I was taught to do it and how my right handed parents and siblings also held their cutlery. Right handed husband and children also hold their fork in their left hand and knife in right. Only difference is when they move to using a spoon they hold it in their right hand whilst I would continue to use my left.
I use a knife alone in my left hand though for buttering and cutting bread etc.
I am pretty much left side dominant though although I pour the kettle with my right hand but only because I'm stirring with my left.

Jist seen someone mentioned which shoulder for handbag. Nope I put my bag on my right shoulder, left shoulder just feels weird.
And regarding left handed scissors, I cannot cut with them at all and manage fine with normal scissors in my left hand.

I love talking to other lefties about how they do things!
Also saw someone mention the smudging when writing. I do that too, it was a nightmare in school when we had to write with fountain pen!

I'm right- handed. Use knife and fork according to stereotypical convention (L= fork, R = knife). According to my research some right-handed people switch fork hands when a knife is not applicable (e.g. stir fry) and I have never understood why. But not to the point where I lose sleep about it. Oh yeah, that reminds me - why TF is handedness an issue?

According to my research some right-handed people switch fork hands when a knife is not applicable (e.g. stir fry) and I have never understood why

The righties in this house all do that. Fork in left and knife in right for a fork and knife meal, but if having something like eg a slice of quiche they can just use a fork for would use it in their right. I am a leftie and would continue to use my left

Left-handed, as was my father, and we were both taught to eat with fork in left and knife in right, with handle in palm of hand rather than like a pencil - Gran was determined that being working class didn't mean that you didn't know how to lay a table and eat properly. She was determined not to be embarrassed so bread rolls broken with hands before buttering individual bits with right hand too! Also glass held in right hand. However, both of us swapped hands for spoons or eating with a fork alone.

Oh, just seen the comment about smudging when writing. I don't do that as I hold the pen below the line of writing exactly like a right-handed person. I don't do the crab hand above the line, just did it as I was shown; it was helpful having a left-handed dad to show me as he was pretty ambidextrous as he'd been made to write with his right-hand. I often swap hands without thinking, eg when painting along a wall.

I can't say it's anything I've ever thought about, although I can think of hypothesises that support each one.

I'm a leftie, knife in left hand and fork in right.

Leftie. Hold fork in left hand while cutting.

I’m right handed and have never understood this! Much to my mothers horror I eat with my fork in my right hand.... like an American. I can’t do it the other way. Husband is a rightie who eats the way etiquette dictates. Children are a leftie and a rightie who eat with their forks in their dominate hands because I’ve never tried to “correct” them.

Left handed. Fork (and spoon - not at same time) in left and knife in right. Right handers i know do this also - think it so much to do with handedness??

What’s the gen on those (think right handers) who cut then transfer the fork to their right hand - have seen this a lot - is this an American thing?

Knife is dominant as it does the hard work. Holding/stabbing/jabbing things with a fork could be done even wearing boxing gloves, but you could not cut properly.

I’m a leftie, I always have the fork/spoon in my left.
I can just about cut things on my plate with my right, I’ve been known to switch if I struggle.
I can’t butter/cut bread with my right hand though, it has to be left.

I write with left, play table tennis with left, tennis and badminton with right hand. This is called mixed preference.

A good summary
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handedness

I (right handed) was brought up with fork in left and knife in right hands, that's also how I set the table.

My dad is a leftie and does the same, but he can't use a dpo0on in his right hand and actually apologised to me last time we went out, I hadn't noticed.

My carer is right handed, he holds the knife in his left hand and the fork in his right, he doesn't actually cut his food he sort of holds it with the knife and used the fork to drag it away.

The thing that amuses me is that if he is buttering bread or cutting bread then the knife is in his right hand.

Jist seen someone mentioned which shoulder for handbag. Nope I put my bag on my right shoulder, left shoulder just feels weird.

I HAVE to have my bag on my left shoulder, I also only use a phone to my left ear, I can hear with both but it just feels wrong. But I use both hands to brush my teeth and use a hairdryer.

We are a mix of handedness, dad and one of his brothers are lefties, a couple of cousins are also lefties and so is my niece.

Top tip for any left handers who can't open wine, hold the corkscrew still and turn the bottle.

I’m very left-handed and have always held my knife in my left hand and fork in my right. I’m not capable of eating with them the other way round. I hate these threads as they always fill up with tedious people going on about ‘etiquette’ and the ‘correct’ way of holding your cutlery. If you’re so terribly offended by someone holding a knife in their left hand, I suggest you get a grip (pun intended).

It’s nothing to do with whether or not you are right or left handed. Everyone is taught to hold the fork in the left hand and the knife in the right. It’s just an accepted way of doing it. I’ve actually never seen anyone hold them the other way around.

However, I suspect the reason is that most people are right handed and you need more strength in the hand that’s doing the cutting than the one that’s just sticking a fork into something to list it. Imagine eating a steak and having to cut it with your weakest/least dexterous hand. In the same way that when you are preparing food in the kitchen - you wouldn’t chop an onion with your non dominant hand would you?

Dd is left handed. Fork in left hand, knife in right. Everyone else is right handed. Fork in left handed, knife in right. The knife right hand is traditionally the dominant hand because it has to do the cutting.

I’m right handed but pour the kettle with my left hand and have it turned that way. Drives DH nuts.

DS’s are right handed but play tennis/badminton etc left handed. I used to as well but got told off at school because I wasn’t left handed. Like WTF difference does it make? I was hardly going to play rounders in the Olympics. 🙄

I'm not American. Therefore Fork in left hand ..... left or right handedness isn't relevant

bookworm14

If you are eating soup or with just a fork which hand do you use? Just curious.

My DM and DS are right handed and hold their fork in right. DD left handed uses her fork in right hand
I am mainly righthanded hold fork left hand but i do a lot of things with my left ie pick up pans and open bottles with my left hand

I believe fork in left and knife in right is 'correct'. Interestingly I'm a lefty and do it that way but my right handed sister used to do it the other way growing up (I think she's corrected now). I think I agree mostly do more with fork unless there is a lot of cutting involved. Lefties often learn to do things the wrong way round I think, I know I struggled in school with scissors but now I use them right handed and find left handed specific ones awkward! I also use computer mouse right handed as growing up the family computer was set up that way because everyone else was right handed

sashh My left hand.