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

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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?!!

It's also environmentally friendly and remarkably inexpensive, plus when the dishwasher is full and there are no spoons for my cornflakes, I can pop out to the rabbit hutch and whip myself one up. (I scrape any bits off first though)

No no no!

Forks
Knives
Spoons!

Yeah and iron their knickers, socks and tea towels!

Agreed, knives, forks, spoons. Tis the only way.

Maybe we should swap husbands

We go Spoons, Forks, Knives,

(and I iron tea towels, knickers and the flat bit on the top of towels)

Darling
Surely you know that men always do the simplest of domestic tasks wrong to prove to US how incapable they are of doing them - leaving the way open for us to say - LEAVE IT ALONE - I'LL DO IT MYSELF . Oldest trick in the book. This man no doubt holds down a responsible job, do you think he REALLY can't locate knives,forks etc in the correct location. 15 years together? He will never give in, Bet he got you pregnant OK, proving he can locate recepticles correctly

Where do sporks go???

The 'other' cutlery drawer!

pruneplus - you're not the only one to panic at that question...

Oh yes, "Where do Broken - Sporks Go?"

I think you have OCD. I agree that they should be segregated in the drawer, but it really doesn't matter in which order, just so long as they are segregated. But segregation when they go IN the dishwasher is just bonkers. (sorry that was someone else, not you, but even so!!!!) Don't go getting ideas now....

Do they make cutlery dividers a different shape in Australia?

Tablespoons, forks, knives in the main bit. Teaspoons and children's cutlery in the bit that runs horizontally in front. Soup spoons, chopsticks, those little fishing basket things for steambaot meals, cheese knives that don't fit in the knife block, the pastry brush and a knife sharpening stone in the long bit to the right.

You can't turn it around to make the long bit go down the lefthand side, otherwise the teaspoons would be at the back of the drawer. Which is clearly agaisnt the law of nature.

Teaspoons clearly have to be at the front. I'm sure we all agree with that.

My cutlery draw goes knives, big forks, little forks, spoons, soup spoons (with teaspoons at he front). Big and small knives both go in the knife bit (it's bigger than the rest). Serving spoons go in the same draw, but outside of the basket thing, which doesn't really fit.

However I have a feeling that dh decided on the original order.

Lmbo @ "God, some of you lot really don't know how to live. "

Morning all

am glad this important thread is still going. I think we all missed a trick and we should have asked Esther Rantzen, david cameron etc. Maybe even Gordon brown and he could have raised it in parliament.

They like me would have agreed it goes knives, forks, spoons.

On the teaspoon discussion, all I know is that they are by nature minxy creatures and you have to be quite strict or they start hiding. I believe they should go at the front where I can keep my eye on them.

Jesus - who the fuck cares?

Cumbria.

Having anarchy amongst utensils is a bad thing.

Forks HAVE to go on the right.

Its easy to remember: fork right off.

Tell me, do you people lay your tables with the forks to the right? Do you?

Thought not. So why should the cutlery drawer be any different?

Disclaimer: forks to the right are perfectly asseptible if you are left-handed.

What the blinking heck is a jam spoon?

ooh.
yanbu, but it should be in the same order you'd set them out on the table which is (l-r) forks, knives.
however, because spoons go at the top of the plate, if you're being common, then you could forgive the spoons being anywhere else. but if you're being posh they go on the outside (eg the soup course goes first) so they should be on the right in the drawer.

but i put the big spoons on the left and the littel spoons in the bit at the bottom.

so mine go (l-r) spoons, forks, knives

little spoons

FimbleHobbs

am loving fork right off phrase

otter

am sorry but your organisation is unassseptible, laying the table has nothing to do with it

knives
forks
spoons