Poll: Knives & Forks, left hand vs right hand

How do you hold your knife and fork?


  • Total voters
    304
Right handed

Fork in right, knife in left.

If only fork, knife or spoon; then its in the right hand.

I feel i dont need to cut my food as accurately as i need to deliver it to my face
 
Completely and utterly right-handed in everything, but I'm told that holding a fork in my right (as I do) is completely arse-about-face for a right-hander. Not sure when or how I started doing it - all I know is that to me it feels the most natural way of doing it ...
 
Well it is common practice to hold a fork (or spoon) in right hand - when it's its the only utensil you're holding.

If you're also holding knife in left then that's unusual.
 
Right handed.
Fork in right hand.
If you're right handed and use your fork in your left hand, why do you use a spoon in your right?
I also wear a watch on my right hand. :eek:
 
Albeit fairly small sample size but I'm surprised at the poll I expected it to be much heavier towards right handed with fork in left. Glad to see I'm far from alone.
 
Refreshing to see that the vast majority of lefties really know that right is right, gripping that knife in the right hand, their leftieness be damned, and I concur, dammit.


Right is right.
 
I'm right handed and use the knife in my left, slightly ambidextrous and could probably learn to do more things left handed pretty quickly.
 
I'm left handed, but eat right handed. I play all sports left handed, apart from golf, where I just learned to play right handed with some free clubs.

*Edit*

Just realised I fish right handed as well (rod insight hand).
 
Right handed, although I shoot left handed for some reason. I use my fork in the right hand and knife in my left as that feels comfortable. It's crazy to me that anyone actually cares how someone else chooses to use a knife and fork, when there are so many real problems that actually matter.
 
Interesting, from the poll, how rare it is for a lefty to hold the knife in their dominant hand. I guess we don't coach them to switch as doing it 'wrong' matches up with how righties are supposed to do it.

We do tell our southpaw son that he'd find cutting his food easier if he learned to hold the knife in his left, but he's not buying it :D
 
As a lefty, I still believe it's more natural to use the dominant eating utensil of the fork in our left hands as left handed people, than it is for a righty to use a fork in their left- if anything that's the learned behaviour - dominant left hand utensil is the 'correct' and taught way to eat with knife and fork in polite society.

I remember getting a good laugh out of seeing right handed relatives chastised for using their right hand for a fork at Christmas dinner, one of the few 'normal' things that as a lefty felt totally natural to use a fork in the left.

Think of it this way, as toddlers we don't even use knives, we learn to eat using spoons and plastic forks, mine was always in my left hand. I assume right handed people always in the right as a single utensil, that's one of the first ways you can tell a kid's handedness.

So rightys at some point learned to switch hands for their fork, almost entirely because it's the 'correct' way to eat that their parents were taught to do. Leftys mostly just carry on as nature intended.

If you really want to get some freaky results ask left handed people what hand they use a mouse in a with what button config, EG: I use an ambidextrous mouse in left hand with a right handed mouse button config, leftys using their mouse in the right hand freaks me out, the incredibly rare right handed using mouse left handed even more so.
 
As a lefty, I still believe it's more natural to use the dominant eating utensil of the fork in our left hands as left handed people, than it is for a righty to use a fork in their left- if anything that's the learned behaviour - dominant left hand utensil is the 'correct' and taught way to eat with knife and fork in polite society.

I remember getting a good laugh out of seeing right handed relatives chastised for using their right hand for a fork at Christmas dinner, one of the few 'normal' things that as a lefty felt totally natural to use a fork in the left.

Think of it this way, as toddlers we don't even use knives, we learn to eat using spoons and plastic forks, mine was always in my left hand. I assume right handed people always in the right as a single utensil, that's one of the first ways you can tell a kid's handedness.

So rightys at some point learned to switch hands for their fork, almost entirely because it's the 'correct' way to eat that their parents were taught to do. Leftys mostly just carry on as nature intended.

If you really want to get some freaky results ask left handed people what hand they use a mouse in a with what button config, EG: I use an ambidextrous mouse in left hand with a right handed mouse button config, leftys using their mouse in the right hand freaks me out, the incredibly rare right handed using mouse left handed even more so.
I think this theory ignores that cutting and eating is a two-handed process. You start learning cutlery with just a fork as your food gets cut up for you.

I mean, if I'm trimming or hacking at stuff in the garden, I'll do the cutting with my right hand, but I'll pick the bits up with my left. Same with eating - the cutting is the technical bit, as pronging bits of food is hardly difficult.

It's more natural to have the fork in your right, yes, but it's not more effective nor efficient
 
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