It goes, knives, forks, spoons, knives, forks, spoons....

[RatherBeOnThePiste]

It always has
Knives, forks, spoons..... always

AI therefore BU to be irritated beyond belief that when DH unloads the sodding dishwasher that he cannot get it right?He always puts them in random places in our cutlery tray, but never knives, forks, spoons

I suspect he does it like this so that I stop asking him to do it, but we have been together for 15 years!

Knives, forks, spoons or AIBU?!!

Exactly. Ergonomic all well and good...but tis the aesthetic that fills my world with joy. (See previous posts)

And I think, RBOTP, with your dismissal of the ergonomic philosophising, you have actually agreed with me!

KnottyLocks
We are agreed then..
Knives
Forks
Spoons

You too can be my new best friend, I have another vacancy, HOWEVER I am concerned about all your extra curricula cutlery, and think you must need two homes to sustain it all.

Sometimes simpleness is best, and god knows I am a simple soul.

Knives
Forks
Spoons

Thank you RBOTP

As I said further up the thread, It's just laziness.

Knives
Forks
Spoons

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the thread got 1006 posts and we've only managed 300, so we can still carry on with this some more....

where the spoons go is academic, actually.
you have two hands, so L-R should be forks and knives. (for table-setting purposes)

the reason the spoon slot is academic, is that it depends on how posh/common you are when you set the table.
if you're posh, you'll have it in the correct place on the table as one of the courses (ie, a soup spoon goes to the left of the main course fork)
but if you're common, you'll put it at the top of the plate.

but for normal dinner at home, I don't tend to havea pudding or a starter, so I only need a fork and a knife.
so, fork on left, knife on right.
in drawer and on table
(and i'm left-handed too)

But whyyyyy?

I still don't understand the table laying bit.

When I lay the table I get the knives and forks out of the drawer, hold them in my hand, walk to the table and put them on the table.

I don't robotically take the cutlery from the drawer and stalk, stiff legged, to lay the table.

anyway.
knives
forks
spoons

Is that right to left?

left to right Rockbird.

AS YOU WELL KNOW

You didn't specify so how was I to know you were still over on the dark side?

We're just correct and normal and it's making you feel less of a human. It's ok Rockbird, I understand, you just need to change your drawer to the proper way and all will be well.

Maybe it's a man thing. I insist on sorted cutlery in the drawers. My DH doesn't understand why. But he does it! He also doesn't understand why cutlery has to all have the handles at the same end, i.e. be the right way up. He found out the other day. My younger son (14 and going through the stage where they can't keep their hands off their willies) had his hand down his pants then straight away got a spoon from the drawer. Nice. But because they're all the same way up at least he only touched the handles.

Oooh, only just found this, my anal passion!
Knives, forks, desert spoons, teaspoons from left to right.
I also have 3 little tupperware pots for baby's cutlery, medicine spoons &dispensers and corn on the cob prongs.

I'm with you nickelbabe. We rarely have dessert, so taking the forks in the left and the knives in the right hand makes sense

But to quibble with you on one thing: in my (posh) upbringing, I was taught that the soup spoon goes to the right of the main course knife (depending on the order of courses, it would either got the right or left of the fish course/starter course knife) - you work from the outside in. It is one of the times where my left handedness is an issue, aas I have to reach acorss the cutlery to pick up the soup spoon with my left hand.

Dessert spoon should be above (between) the knife and fork, with the bowl to the left. If you are being really posh, the dessert fork would be underneth, with the tines to the right. (although as a leftie, I find it impossible to use a dessert fork and spoon together, as both implements are usually used in my left hand)

This is also how I had to lay the tables for functions when I worked as a waitress at 4 star hotel when I was a student at St Andrews

Snob? Moi?

We really need a poking tongue out emoticon...

This thread has brightened my day.

Knives, forks, spoons imo
Although knives going on the table are generally on the left as my 2 boys are Left handed, and I eat left handed.

Im a childminder, I have laminated words and pictures in/on my kitchen drawers!!

I also have 2 cutlery drawers!!
1 for sharp knives etc and cutlery for adults and bigger children and another 1 for the smaller people, baby cutlery and plastic cutlery, etc.
I also have another drawer for all my cooking utensils.

Mmmmmmmmm sleeping with the enemy, was the first thing i thought of

As has been mentioned already, the idea of the forks in the left hand and knives in the right hand when carrying the cutlery to the table (when of course we know they have to be carried in one hand, otherwise how do you carry the tomato sauce??) is a moot point really.

Anyone with any sense would know that it has to be (from left to right in case certain people want to question this) has to be knives, forks, spoons becuase those words naturally collocate.

Therefore just as we read words from left to right, so we must lay our cutlery in the order of those words. KNIVES, FORKS, SPOONS.

I rest my case

But the spoon goes on the inside for pudding. Or at top if space is limited.

Or are you talking soup?

ah, pretty bird, you might have a point there.

i wasn't quite sure which side the soup spoon went on (although i knew it was the outside) but i erred on the side of the same side of the plate as the fork.
oops.

now, eating left-handed.

this means this thread is crossing-over to the left-handed thread

i don't understans how it can be eating left-handed if you change the knife and fork around! if the fork is in the left hand when you're eating, surely that's left-handed? and all the right-handed people are eating the wrong way round! you only need the knife to cut the food, so it should be in the less important hand.

I agree absolutely nickelbabe - we are eating the "logical" way round

All those righties are doing it wrong (as is my leftie dh who uses his fork in his left hand) . Interestingly, our right-handed ds uses his knife and fork like his dad.

hf128219 - you are right about the dessert spoon - that is another option (on the basis that yuo work from the outside in). But I was indeed talking about the soup spoon being on the outside of the main knife.

It goes Knives, Forks, Spoons.

It is like goldilocks and the three bears.

The knife is daddy becasue he is tallest, the fork in mummy because she comes next, and the spoon is the baby because that is the way mny deranged mind works. The teaspoons are the new babies.

That is in one drawer. Another drawer has all the spatulas and wooden spoons in. There is a pot next to the oven which has all the pretty utensils in (fish slice, whisk, ladle) and teh drawer is where all the ugly utensils go.

The answer?