Poll: Knives & Forks, left hand vs right hand

[Beaurepaire]

I'm left-handed but if I do anything two-handed I do it right-handed except for shooting a rifle. For example:

Left handed - write, throw a ball, use a spoon
Right handed - use knife & fork, play golf

 

[MusicalChris]

Right handed, fork in right hand. Left handed people have the fork in the dominant hand, but for some reason tradition says right handed people have to be the same as left handed people and have the knife in the right hand and the fork in the weaker hand, so fork in right hand it is for me, feels the correct way

 

[AHarvey]

Right handed, fork in right hand. Left handed people have the fork in the dominant hand, but for some reason tradition says right handed people have to be the same as left handed people and have the knife in the right hand and the fork in the weaker hand, so fork in right hand it is for me, feels the correct way

Have you considered that left-handed people have the fork in their left hand not because it's their dominant one but because you're taught the proper way is "fork in left, knife in right"

I'm also not sure why you are using LHD people as some sort of baseline when they make up only 10% of the population worldwide.

That's kind of like saying bum sex is the only real way to have sex because 2% of the population is gay.

 

[ttaskmaster]

but for some reason tradition says right handed people have to be the same as left handed people and have the knife in the right hand

That tradition comes from when people ate using just a knife and their fingers. Forks were a cooking tool, not an eating one. Knife was held in the dominant hand, so mainly right.
But of course, just because it's tradition doesn't make it correct or even relevant today.

 

[MusicalChris]

Have you considered that left-handed people have the fork in their left hand not because it's their dominant one but because you're taught the proper way is "fork in left, knife in right"

I'm also not sure why you are using LHD people as some sort of baseline when they make up only 10% of the population worldwide.

That's kind of like saying bum sex is the only real way to have sex because 2% of the population is gay.

Wasn't really saying it as LHD was a baseline, it just seems that the "proper" way as you put it puts the Fork in the dominent had for a left handed person. Don't see the need nowadays for there to be a proper way

 

[Threepwood]

I use different hands depending on the food.

If there is a lot of cutting involved I use the knife in my dominant hand (right), if not then it's fork in right hand.

Also a lot of food hardly needs a knife to cut it anyway, so I just use the side of the fork to slice through the food, without even picking up the knife. Less washing up.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Wasn't really saying it as LHD was a baseline, it just seems that the "proper" way as you put it puts the Fork in the dominent had for a left handed person. Don't see the need nowadays for there to be a proper way

Knife tends to be in the dominant hand for right handed people because thats the one that needs the most control, left handed people hold it the same way because they're usually taught thats the "right" way to do things. My uncle for example though left handed was taught to write right handed because left handedness was "wrong" when he was a kid. Things have obviously changed since then.

Right hand is always the dominant for right handedness left handedness is sometimes referred to as cack handedness because you ate food with your right and wiped your arse with your left, if you did it the wrong way around you were eating your food with your "cack" hand, but thats another story...