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

[JdaS]

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.

Or better yet just cut the food with the side of the fork and eliminate the middle man.

EDIT: Fork left knife right for me by the way. And I now realize that I've been ninja'd. Shit.

 

[CleverCover]

I carve my food up, and then abandon my knife somewhere to free up my left hand for my drinking glass.

 

[funguy2121]

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?

All people who align their toilet paper so that they're pulling from the bottom are fascists and possibly believe in in-breeding.

We must stop this toilet paper-pulling phenomenon now, before incest and totalitarianism consume us.

No, Steven Wright, that was a joke.

 

[El Poncho]

Despite being left handed I have my fork in the left and knife in the right.

 

[Quagmirian]

I'm amazed at the amount of plebs who don't eat properly. That said, shoving instant noodles into my mouth with a fork whilst browsing the internet doesn't really give me the high ground in this arguement.

 

[Zeraki]

You're supposed to use the knife with your dominate hand, and hold the food in place with the fork in the opposite hand. That way you have more control over the knife, and can cut the food much more easily/safely.

At least that's the way I was taught.

So if you're left handed, you are using the correct hand for the knife.

EDIT

I'm right handed by the way. So I eat with the knife in right, and fork in left.

 

[Jodah]

Etiquette is just people refusing to let go of the past. (Note I differentiate politeness and manners from etiquette)

I use my knife in my left hand and my fork in my right. I have absolutely no problem cutting up anything in that manner. Anyone who cannot do that needs to either slow down or not be given a knife. Eating, much like sex, is usually not a race. (That doesn't mean you have to do left knife/right fork, it merely means if your reason is because of control you are doing it wrong.)

 

[Scarim Coral]

I use the fork on my right and knife on the left which my family find it strange. I'm pretty sure the reason why I do it thay way (since I know it suppose to be the other way) is I think it has something to do with using the chopstick (since I use the chopstick on my right hand so I view my right hand is the main hand to use).
I still prefer to use my fork and knife that way in a formal dinner party (since they set the knifes on the right and the fork on the left) much to my parent dismay.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

I'm ambidextrous so I don't have a specific way of holding them. I also hold my knife in a very... unorthodox way as does the rest of my family (on my mom's side, and I lived with her most of the time). We kind of grab it with our fist pointing vertically. Barbaric, yes, but it works.

 

[Spoon E11]

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.

that method I believe was adopted because there was a shortage of knifes during the World wars. Or it could just be an old wives tale.

but if fork in left knife in right.

 

[Seriin]

Fork Left, knife right, but I am left handed. I've got a right handed friend who uses fork left because it is more comfortable. My step dad uses his right hand for both, switching utensils between bites because he can't do either with his left hand (no medical reason behind that either).

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Etiquette is just people refusing to let go of the past. (Note I differentiate politeness and manners from etiquette)

I use my knife in my left hand and my fork in my right. I have absolutely no problem cutting up anything in that manner. Anyone who cannot do that needs to either slow down or not be given a knife. Eating, much like sex, is usually not a race. (That doesn't mean you have to do left knife/right fork, it merely means if your reason is because of control you are doing it wrong.)

Like someone has stated, there's a reason why you use a knife and fork in specific hands. So that you don't knock elbows with other people at the table.

 

[GeorgW]

I made a thread somewhat similar to this a long, long time ago.
The correct way is fork left, knife right. That has always been my belief, and apparently that's not as widely spread as I thought, at least given the feedback I got in the last thread.
However, I do eat using fork right, knife left. I've always done so and I think that, as I'm right handed, it's the logical way to do it. Screw etiquette, I don't want my useless left hand shoving sharp items into my mouth. I've always believed that there is no good reason for the way you're supposed to hold utensils, it's simply grown out of old customs, and I protest it.

 

[Goody]

I made a thread somewhat similar to this a long, long time ago.
The correct way is fork left, knife right. That has always been my belief, and apparently that's not as widely spread as I thought, at least given the feedback I got in the last thread.
However, I do eat using fork right, knife left. I've always done so and I think that, as I'm right handed, it's the logical way to do it. Screw etiquette, I don't want my useless left hand shoving sharp items into my mouth. I've always believed that there is no good reason for the way you're supposed to hold utensils, it's simply grown out of old customs, and I protest it.

There is a reason for knife in right hand, if you are right handed because if you need to use a sharp knife, you use your strong hand in order to have better control over it, making it safer for you and anyone around you in that situation. I believe that is some rather good logic.

However your logic for fork in the right hand actually makes sanse too, if sticking pointy things in your mouth, have better control over it, now both ways have some logic to them. Although I voted knife right anyway

 

[n00beffect]

Fork - left ; Knife - right. But that's only if I am using them both at the same time. If I am just using the fork, then I tend to do it with my right hand.

 

[Dirkie]

I change mid-meal.

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

Things are similar here, i start off with the fork in the right hand, knife in the left, swap when i need to cut things, swap again to eat it.
To avoid any unnessecery confusion, do not provide me with more than one fork, because at least once i uded two forks at the same time, and etiquette does look down on using the cutlery in the wrong hand, it is absolutelty horrified and seeking a way out when you go fork akimbo, no matter how convenient it is at that moment.

 

[CthulhuMessiah]

I eat with my fork in my right hand, but if I'm cutting something I'll move my fork into my left and put my knife into my right.

 

[shadyh8er]

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.

Or how about the Trinidadian way where you do all of your cutting with the side of the fork?

OT: Being right-handed, I want the knife in my right hand because I handle a knives too awkwardly with my left. Not to mention I want all the force I can get when I'm cutting.

Are the forks designed with a cutting edge?

Because I can imagine that being very awkward to do, especially to a steak.

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Nope! It's just you and a tub of elbow grease!

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

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.

...

how is that ridiculous?

i am eating just as fast if not faster than you by using my proficient hand the most, you have to use both hands to cut the food anyways (usually, at least with meat) so i don't lose any time or anything by switching my fork to my right after i'm done cutting my food? i don't see how that makes me below you/improper manners for doing such..

 

[McNinja]

I'm left handed, so I use my left hand to cut and my right to hold. Then I switch utensils, because that just makes sense.