Cutlery

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

1) Right handed
2) USA
3) knife in right, fork in left
4) fork in right
5) right hand has the fork
6) right hand

The inherent inefficiency bothered me when I was younger, so I attempted to master the European style. Alas, I broke my left arm badly when I was a child, and I was just too clumsy with it to ever master the technique. Just as well, I suppose, as I eat too fast anyway. Any faster and I probably would have managed to choke to death

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

1. Are you left- or right-handed?
2. Where are you from?
3. Which hand do you hold your knife and fork in while, say, cutting a steak?
4. Which hand do you hold your knife and fork in while, say, eating a steak?
5. Which hand do you hold your fork in while, say, eating a piece of cheesecake?
6. Which hand do you hold your spoon in while, say, eating a bowl of cereal?

1. Right-handed
2. Navy brat, so from all over the USA
3. Knife in right, fork in left
4. Knife in right, fork in left
5. Fork in right
6. Spoon in right

 

[thalmin]

1. Are you left- or right-handed?
2. Where are you from?
3. Which hand do you hold your knife and fork in while, say, cutting a steak?
4. Which hand do you hold your knife and fork in while, say, eating a steak?
5. Which hand do you hold your fork in while, say, eating a piece of cheesecake?
6. Which hand do you hold your spoon in while, say, eating a bowl of cereal?

1. I am left-handed.
2. Chicago, IL, USA
3. Knife right, fork left.
4. Knife right, fork left, tines curved upward.
5. Fork in left hand.
6. Spoon in left hand.
Right hand also for drinking if fork or spoon in left.

 

[demiurge1138]

I'm from California, and pride myself in my culinary ambidexterity. I generally do it the way Crothian and Hyp do, knife in right, fork in left, but I can do it the other way around as well, if it's more convenient. And I have actually been chastised for my lack of ettiquite for not eating "American style" with the hand-switch.

Demiurge out.

 

[Uzumaki]

1. Are you left- or right-handed?
2. Where are you from?
3. Which hand do you hold your knife and fork in while, say, cutting a steak?
4. Which hand do you hold your knife and fork in while, say, eating a steak?
5. Which hand do you hold your fork in while, say, eating a piece of cheesecake?
6. Which hand do you hold your spoon in while, say, eating a bowl of cereal?

1. Right
2. San Diego, Calafia
3. Knife, right; fork, left
4. Assuming I haven't put my utensils down in between the cutting and the eating, knife, right; fork, left. It's not that challenging for me to put the morsel in my mouth with the fork with my off hand.
5. Right.
6. Right.

 

[Steve Jung]

1. Are you left- or right-handed?
2. Where are you from?
3. Which hand do you hold your knife and fork in while, say, cutting a steak?
4. Which hand do you hold your knife and fork in while, say, eating a steak?
5. Which hand do you hold your fork in while, say, eating a piece of cheesecake?
6. Which hand do you hold your spoon in while, say, eating a bowl of cereal?

1. Right-handed
2. New Jersey
3. Knife-right. Fork-left
4. Knife-right. Fork-left
5. Right
6. Right

Regardless of which style is used to operate fork and knife, it is important never to cut more than one or two bites at one time.

Maybe, it's because young children have their food completely cut up. Just a guess.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Re: the zig-zag: Ms. Manners (syndicated etiquette columnist) also prefers it. I think its silly, and don't do it.

1. Are you left- or right-handed?
2. Where are you from?
3. Which hand do you hold your knife and fork in while, say, cutting a steak?
4. Which hand do you hold your knife and fork in while, say, eating a steak?
5. Which hand do you hold your fork in while, say, eating a piece of cheesecake?
6. Which hand do you hold your spoon in while, say, eating a bowl of cereal?

1) Ambidexterous, with a preference towards right-handedness.

2) New Orleans, Louisiana. (Army Brat...all- over the USA + Germany)

3) Initially Lt-hand fork/rt-hand knife. However, it may reverse at any time.

4) Initially Lt-hand fork/rt-hand knife. However, it may reverse at any time.

5) Right

6) Left, unless I'm reading

Needless to say, I drive some people NUTS at the table, especially if I'm not paying attention.

I was recently at a "function" where I was seated at a round table, and the person to my left was late. I reached for the water glass on my left. When the late person (one of my professors) arrived, he leaned over and whispered "Water." I had forgotten its customary to drink with the right hand- at home, my glass jumps left and right, usually in opposition to my fork.

 

[nerfherder]

I'm interested to know:

1. Are you left- or right-handed?
2. Where are you from?
3. Which hand do you hold your knife and fork in while, say, cutting a steak?
4. Which hand do you hold your knife and fork in while, say, eating a steak?
5. Which hand do you hold your fork in while, say, eating a piece of cheesecake?
6. Which hand do you hold your spoon in while, say, eating a bowl of cereal?
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1. Right handed (though I learned to use a mouse in my left hand after a couple of days when my right wrist was aching).
2. England.
3. Fork left/knife right while cutting.
4. Fork left/knife right while eating. Sometimes I only use a fork to eat a meal (if the meat is already in chunks, or can easily be broken up with the side of a fork), in which case I hild it in my right hand.
5. Fork in right hand to eat cheesecake.
6. Spoon in right hand.

Cheers,
Liam

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

Raised in California by a German mother, I used the "American Style" until I was first made aware of how ridiculous European etiquette mavens found the practice, shortly before my first visit to the Fatherland at age sixteen (nobody there cared how I handled my utensils, either, but my mother had gone to finishing school as a child). I converted to the "continental style" for this trip and just never went back. The zig-zag is just too weird now (though I went to school with a kid called ZigZag and he was pretty cool and, other than the name, fairly normal).

 

[Bront]

1) Right handed
2) Illinois (Naperville), USA
3) knife in right, fork in left
4) iknife in right, fork in left
5) right hand has the fork
6) right hand