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!

❤

(I think she's corrected now)

Why was she ‘wrong’?

Right handed, fork in my right hand all the time.

Culturally fork in left, knife in right, don’t think it’s anything to do with which you use most as it’s whats “expected” ....however... im righty and if I’ve only got a fork (noodles, cake whatever) i’ll use my right hand not my left!

Leftie here too. I learned to hold my fork in my left hand and fork in my right (the so called correct way) but could never manage to hold my spoon in my right hand. I can’t manage it when you are offered a fork and spoon for pudding [embarrassed]

Thanks Bookworm

(I think she's corrected now)

Why was she ‘wrong’?

Because that's the polite way to do it in the UK. It also stops you bumping elbows with the person next to you if you are both using utensils in the correct hands. Any right hander who has sat next to a left hander ar school knows about inadvertent elbowing.

For centuries knives were used at the table but no forks so once forks began to be used it made sense to put the fork i what is, for most people, the non dominant hand.

DP is a leftie and holds his fork in his left hand and his knife in his right when he's out for dinner at a restaurant or with other people, as that's what he was taught. However, if it's just the two of us in our house, he'll eat with his knife in his left hand because he feels a lot more comfortable that way.

Rightie here, and the fork in left hand and knife in right makes sense to me, as you do more with the knife. When you cut up your food, the fork stays still while you move the knife. Same is true when you're getting the food onto the fork. The only thing your fork hand really has to do is lift the food up to your mouth. I would have trouble trying to do it the other way round.

I’m a leftie and hold knife on left and fork in right , find it tricky the other way around . Also when I set the table everyone had to swap their cutlery around because I lay it out the same as I use them ... knife left , fork right

I’m a leftie and I eat left handed - knife in left hand.
However if I’m not using a knife, I’ll hold my fork (or spoon) in my left hand. I couldn’t cut anything with my right hand otherwise! Which is weird because I use scissors with my right hand, throw with my right and use any sporting equipment with my right hand.

I'm a leftie. Fork in left hand knife in right hand.