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?!!

[WhoIsAsking]

Knives, Forks, Spoons.

Can't read too much of the thread as the thought of unsegregated cutlery is making me itchy. Also, Spoons, Forks, Knives?!?!?!?!?

What madness is this?

[nickelbabe]

otter: disagree: i cannot fathom this whole you have the fork on the right if you're left-handed!

it makes no sense!
if you're right-handed, you have the fork on the left, okay, but when you eat with just a fork, you switch it to the right.
when you're left-handed, you always have your fork in the left hand, no matter whether you havea knife or not.

we are much more sensible when it come to cutlery!

all that chopping and changing. pshah.

[Pineapplechunks]

From left to right-

Knives-forks-spoons and then teaspoons in the smaller compartment at the bottom.

As an aside, steak knives to the right and curly straws to the left of the cutlery tray and underneath the cutlery tray is the file with the takeaway menus in it.

[nickelbabe]

(whoisasking) i think it's a left-handed thing: absolutely convinced that i'll shop my hand off if the knives are on the left!

[nickelbabe]

chop! gah!

[nickelbabe]

oh, pineapplechunks! steak nives go in their own, segregated, box on the posh shelf.

[nickelbabe]

knives

my hand is cold.
that's my excuse.

[MumofOscar]

Does anyone else find teh word fork loses all meaning and looks just wrong after reading it so many times? Doesn't seem to happen with knives and spoons though.

[MumofOscar]

Oh and for the record, it goes spoons, knives, forks. Knives have to go in the middles as they are longer and the middle slot is longer to accomodate (sp) them. I think

[Wereworm]

I just love this thread. I find it creepy that there is so much consensus around the knives, forks, spoons ordering -- because despite what anyone says there is no rationale for it.

I think it is just like the synchronisation of menstrual cycles: we all involuntarily fall in line with the alpha female, in this case RatherBeOnThePiste.

[WhoIsAsking]

I'm not listening to your EXCUSES nickelbabe. It's wrong, and that is the end of it.

[CrossAunt]

Forks. Spoons. Knives.

that way when the dcs lay the table they know which way round it goes.

End of

[Pineapplechunks]

nickelbabe- A whole shelf for posh stuff?!

I don't think my six pack of Ikea steak knives would fit in on a posh shelf.

[tortoiseonthehalfshell]

AIBU that this is currently my favourite thread?

Also, so does everyone else combine tablespoons and soup spoons in one section? I must know.

[LoveBeingAMummy]

You know this thread is going to end up in the Dm don't you....."mn, the site all the politician are out to get on side, were last night arguing about the order of their cutlery draw".....

(BTW its spoons, forks, knives)

[displayuntilbestbefore]

Spoons, forks, knives...and teaspoons separately in their own little segment.
Sharp knives and peelers in back section away from inquisitive hands.

Can I just ask if anyone loads the dishwasher with sharp knives pointing upwards? My sister does this despite me telling her it's dangerous after I almost ripped an artery open in my wrist when unloading her dishwasher.

[MumofOscar]

Hmm strange - just been to check and my cutlery drawer isn't bigger to accommodate knives so i don't know where i got that bollocks from! Feeling a bit deflated after this revelation as it happens.

[MumofOscar]

i meant the miidle slot isn't bigger

[Rockbird]

spoons > forks > knives

There is no other way. End of debate.

[WhoIsAsking]

I'm a bit bewildered at how much this is bothering me. So thanks Rather, thanks a bloody lot. It would appear I have OCD but only in a very small and strange way. (Not in a useful, keeping the house tidy kind of way)

(Does anyone else know automatically where the cutlery drawer will be in someone else's kitchen?)

[displayuntilbestbefore]

usually to the right of the sink, isn't it?

[WhoIsAsking]

Not always, but I can always find it.

Maybe I have a magnet in my brain.

[displayuntilbestbefore]

Don't read any further if you are easily distressed by cutlery displacement

This will freak you all out now:

I jest not.My mother has her cutlery spread all round her kitchen in different drawers

The knives are over by the sink, to the left of the sink in a tiny drawer. The forks, however, can be found in a tiny drawer on the other side of the kitchen and if you want spoons, well, some are in the drawer by the door and the teaspoons are back over in the drawer with the knives


Getting cutlery to set the table when we visit is like The Krypton Factor, and not in a good way

[WhoIsAsking]

So, so wrong.

[Rockbird]

Your. Mother. Needs. Help. This. Minute. I am so so sorry.