Poll: What Hands do you Use a Knife and Fork With?

[D0WNT0WN]

Fork Right,
Knife Left.

Not being arkward, I find it easier. Im not even left handed.

 

[Dags90]

Well I personally blend everything and use a straw to suck it up in the fashion of our insect overlords.

But seriously ... I'm surprised there's this much deviation from fork-left knife-right. WTF? Didn't your mothers teach you even basic etiquette?

As a side note ... I use chopsticks usually. Caucasian here though.

Etiquette varies widely base on location, which is part of these threads. In the U.S., it's been considered rude to eat with your left hand, because it's taken us longer than our European ancestors to move to the quicker fork in left hand way of eating.

 

[Rawne1980]

What Hands do you Use a Knife and Fork With?

The ones at the end of my arms (budum tish)

Knife right hand, fork left.

 

[XMark]

The knife goes in your dominant hand, because cutting requires more force and accuracy than the fork hand.

If you're just using a fork, it goes in your dominant hand, but the knife takes precedence if you have both.

 

[StANDY1338]

Knife in the right its always in the right. Just encase you need to stab something.

knife <<< is that how you spell knife it looks wrong lol

 

[teqrevisited]

I'm right handed and I hold the fork in my right, knife in the left. Mum does the same. Whenever I go round to someone's house and they've set the table they always mention that it's odd when I switch them around. I also have my uncle's habit (an uncle, I might add, that I never knew. I only inherited his name as my middle name) of eating everything separately, one thing at a time.

 

[twistedmic]

Actually, it is correct manners to eat with the fork in the left hand and knife in the right hand.

It's called continental style etiquette.

Despite being an American, I eat using the 'Continental Style'. It feels more natural than putting my knife down and switching my fork to the right hand for each and every bite.

 

[Puzzlenaut]

Fork left, knife right. AS IT SHOULD BE you foreign knaves...

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Actually, it is correct manners to eat with the fork in the left hand and knife in the right hand.

It's called continental style etiquette.

Much more efficient than the ridiculous American method anyway, which is to cut the food (knife in right hand), then set the knife down, to then switch the fork to the right hand.

This is how I eat, because it's supposedly good manners to do so. Also because I'm right handed, and it makes sense to use your dominant hand to cut.
I'm fairly sure the politeness thing isn't directly linked to the cutlery, though. There used to be huge societal pressure on people to learn to do things right-handed, at least in Western Europe, so if you were using your cutlery the other way round, it wasn't wrong because of a mealtime faux-pas, but because you were being left-handed.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

just a little public survey, i got into an arguement with someone the other day who believes that to eat with a fork in your right hand and a knife in your left hand is the "wrong" way of eating and that no-one does it, i argued that not only is there no "correct" way of eating, but that i know/have heard of several people who eat said way, so to put this arguement to rest, how do escapees hold cutlery?

Yes technically as already said is the "proper & mannerly" way to eat in Europe. In reality it doesn't matter but if you want to be prim and proper that is how you do it although a fork and knife isn't like chop sticks where there actually a proper way and technique to use them otherwise you own't really get anything or drop most things.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Surely you'd put the knife in your writing hand to make it easier to cut your meals, no? So yeah, knife in the right hand, fork in the left, if I were left handed I would do the inverse.

 

[Vykrel]

fork left, knife right. but i cut up my meal before i start eating, just to save myself the trouble of having to cutting while i eat. once im done cutting, i eat with the fork in my right hand, as i am a rightie.

 

[Jenitals]

I'm a waitress/busser which means I have to set out the cuttlery, amongst other responsibilities. I have to set out cuttlery repeatedly from 18:00 til 00:30 every weeknight and sunday. If I see someone show the complete and utter lack of appreciation that is picking up their knife with their left hand I die a little inside. If I caught myself doing this I'd have to jump off a bridge.

 

[Kizi]

I never learned to use cutleries, so I just cut the food with my right (dominant) hand and then put the knife down and pick up the fork. Makes me look like an idiot in public but I couldn't care less.

 

[Amphoteric]

i'm right handed so right.

Anyone who says that there is a correct way to eat food deserves to be slapped.

 

[DrPepperMD]

The British do it differently than Americans do. But I am left handed, so I voted for knife left and fork right, because that is what I do.

 

[Ashendarei]

I change mid-meal.

Edit: Not to be difficult, but I really do. I carve my food, then switch around.

This, although if I don't need to cut my food with a knife (can get away w/ a fork) I'll just use the fork in my left hand.

 

[Zarkov]

... the 'normal' way (knife in right, fork in left), though if I'm just using one utensil, it'll be in the right hand, regardless of which one it is.

A better question would be: how do you hold your knife? (And no, that's not supposed to be a euphemism...)

This, knife is always, ALWAYS in the right hand if it is being used. Or else you are just rude D:<
When the knife is not in use, the fork shall occupy the right hand.
I am done now.

u... u mad bro?

But seriously, if I were to sit down at your eating table and eat with the knife-left fork-right format you'd get your panties in a bunch and kick me out?

Because seriously, that's really silly. I mean... the thought that it would be considered rude because you use "object A" with "hand B" instead of the other way around is really stupid.

I mean... what? I think I'd almost be insulted if someone were to tell me that I can't eat that way; it'd be like someone telling me I can't write with my left hand because dead nobles many centuries ago didn't use their left hand. I mean, that's all etiquette is anyway. Tradition of how one holds certain items.

But I'm sure I'm just stating the bloody obvious and there really was no need to bring up these points.
...right?

 

[Phoenixlight]

I eat with a fork in my right hand a knife in my left, everyone else I know thinks that I'm doing it the wrong way but it feels more comfortable and natural for me.

 

[wildpeaks]

I change mid-meal.

Edit: Not to be difficult, but I really do. I carve my food, then switch around.

+1 It drives my parents crazy so I try to avoid it when they're there, but I'm so much more precise with the right hand that I have the urge to switch hand to pick and cut with that one, so I usually take a sip of my glass before switching, that way the switch is invisible (as I have to hold both items into the same hand to pick my glass).