Poll: Knives & Forks, left hand vs right hand

How do you hold your knife and fork?

  • Right handed: fork in left hand, knife in right hand

    Votes: 162 53.3%

  • Right handed: knife in left hand, fork in right hand

    Votes: 85 28.0%

  • Left handed: fork in left hand, knife in right hand

    Votes: 44 14.5%

  • Left handed: knife in left hand, fork in right hand

    Votes: 3 1.0%

  • Other (?): please specify

    Votes: 10 3.3%
  • Total voters
    304
Apparently the reason why we put a fork in our left hand goes back to when we were cavemen fighting others off our food with our strongest hand while we ate with the left. I'm no longer a caveman so put my fork in my right hand.
Even though right handed I'm incapable of cutting food with my right hand and would just make a mess.
 
Left handed - I write left and have left hand cheque book.
Knife in right hand
Spoon left hand
cup of tea right
butter toast left
saw in left hand
hammer right hand
battery drill either
battery saw right
screwdriver either
pistol right
rifle right
bow and arrow left
snooker cue left
tennis right
golf right
kicking anything right.
mouse left
phone keypad left
iron clothes right
finally - personal man things right. :D
 
I'm right-handed but eat like a lefty.

My fork/spoon is doing the precision work getting grub in my gob, so I want my good hand doing that.
 
HoneyBadger said:
Right handed
Knife in right hand
If eating with only a fork, that in right hand
Spoon in right hand
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This Badger speaketh the truth.

Edit: What are some you lot doing. I can't remember ever stabbing myself in the face with a fork even if I am using it in my non dominant hand :confused:
 
Greboth said:
This Badger speaketh the truth.

Edit: What are some you lot doing. I can't remember ever stabbing myself in the face with a fork even if I am using it in my non dominant hand :confused:
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It wouldn't happen if I was focused on eating, but I am generally doing other things like socialising/tv/computer, so using my good hand means I can auto-pilot with no issues. The thought of trying to get cereal+milk in my mouth with my left hand is horrifyingly messy.
 
Diddums said:
Left handed.

Left handed knife.

Ambidextrous in a few things other things, I'm a bit of a weirdo.
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What do you do when you visit one of those posh restaurants - you know the ones where the cutlery is already laid out (fork(s) on the left and knife(s) on the right)?
 
Right handed, knife in the right hand - that's the bit which needs the skill, you can spot someone doing it the wrong way because they're crap at cutting food.

If I go one-handed with my phone (more difficult with growing screen sizes), I do so in my left hand
 
Semple said:
What do you do when you visit one of those posh restaurants - you know the ones where the cutlery is already laid out (fork(s) on the left and knife(s) on the right)?
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I go the full Karen, ask to speak to the manager, inform them that their actions are discriminatory and get them to add an additional layout on every table in every restaurant for the couple of percent of us that are weirdos.
 
krooton said:
It wouldn't happen if I was focused on eating, but I am generally doing other things like socialising/tv/computer, so using my good hand means I can auto-pilot with no issues. The thought of trying to get cereal+milk in my mouth with my left hand is horrifyingly messy.
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Man you’re giving me flashbacks to trying to eat peas with my left hand during stroke recovery. We was picking them up for days :D
 
wesimmo said:
My old man is left handed and footed for everything, except he was bullied into eating right handed as a child by his parents and school.
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My old man, now in his late 60s, started out life left-handed. His dad was left handed too. However, my old man had it beaten out of him at school - cane or belt if he was ever caught using his left hand to write.

LuckyBenski said:
This thread fascinates me. My crap X-Man power super-power is spotting left-handed people.
In carpentry I'm quite ambidextrous for planing, filing, sanding or feeding machinery. But one thing I can't master is sawing as it has placement and motion in 3 axes. Hard to coordinate them all at once plus keep the sawing straight.
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My old man is a carpenter by trade, still works full time despite my mum and I telling him to retire! Anyway, I used to work with him in my late teens. Sawing, hammering, drilling, planing, using a screwdriver, etc, all with my left hand. Subsequent and current jobs had/have certain things that you had no choice in - rifle firing for example, made slightly easier for me as I'm right eye dominant. I also seem to spot fellow left-handers quite easily. I currently work in healthcare and the %age of lefties seems significantly higher in the NHS than in other walks of life.

dodg3rman said:
By your logic you're a freak too :p
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Yeah no but, I was never really contesting that. I thought I ate light right-handed peeps. The entire post I made backs up your theory :D
 
I'm right handed in everything I do. I eat, however, with the knife in the left hand and the fork in the right hand.

I've been called a weirdo on more than one occasion... :p
 
HoneyBadger said:
Right handed
Knife in right hand
If eating with only a fork, that in right hand
Spoon in right hand
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Is the correct way (reverse for left handed people).

Anyone doing differently needs to have a word with their parents about raising you as savages.

WE'RE NOT SAVAGES PEOPLE!!

I assume the people doing it any other way are doing so so that they can still use their phone at the table?
 
Semple said:
What do you do when you visit one of those posh restaurants - you know the ones where the cutlery is already laid out (fork(s) on the left and knife(s) on the right)?
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Correct their mistake and not leave a tip. They will learn eventually.
 
Ultimately, it is the least important thing about eating, well below things like open-mouthed-chewing or talking with a full gob :p
 
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