Poll: knife and fork handling.

What Hands Do You Use Use For Your Knife And Fork?

  • Right Handed - Right Hand Fork / Left Hand Knife

    Votes: 171 25.8%

  • Right Handed - Left Hand Fork / Right Hand Knife

    Votes: 391 59.1%

  • Left Handed - Right Hand Fork / Left Hand Knife

    Votes: 7 1.1%

  • Left Handed - Left Hand Fork / Right Hand Knife

    Votes: 71 10.7%

  • Cutlery? I use my bare hands

    Votes: 20 3.0%

  • Use Either Piece Of Cutlery In Either Hand.

    Votes: 2 0.3%
  • Total voters
    662
jp_bl_68 said:
That makes you right handed then.
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No it doesn't. Again: which handed you are is a sum of all the activities that you do, and which hand dominates the most. If you write right-handed, but do absolutely everything else in the world left handed, then you are a leftie not a rightie. The idea that it is which hand you use to write with which says which handed you are, is down to simple laziness.


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I am right handed
If I use a fork on its own I use it in my right hand as its the most comfortable and easy to eat

If I need a knife I still use the bloody fork in the same hand, why the hell should I have to switch hands because its the 'right way'

I can eat any way I want and if someone gets annoyed watching me then tough
 
Meridian said:
The idea that it is which hand you use to write with which says which handed you are, is down to simple laziness.


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What's lazy about it, surely it's just common sense? Writing is one of, if not the most complex task most of us use our hands for on a daily basis. So whichever hand you write with is usually going to be the dominant hand.
 
I'm a rightie and always had my fork in my right hand which has always seemed logical to me.

Bit of history and why right handed people hold their fork in the left hand :
This goes back to caveman days where you ate with your weakest hand leaving your strongest to keep others from pinching your food.
 
Moses99p said:
Traditional table setting gives a clue, surely?
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It may be correct and it may be formal etiquette to use right hand for knife and left for fork but I'm happy to ignore it. Many other matters of etiquette and politeness I'll try to stick to but this one has always seemed trivial enough not to inconvenience myself unnecessarily.

If this shocking display of uncouthness on my part means that I can never partake of dinner with the Queen then that's unfortunate but life goes on.

jp_bl_68 said:
What's lazy about it, surely it's just common sense? Writing is one of, if not the most complex task most of us use our hands for on a daily basis. So whichever hand you write with is usually going to be the dominant hand.
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Because lots of people aged say 40+ were compelled to use their right hands for writing although they were left handed - are they not left handed because they've been forced into an inconvenient way of writing just to suit the teaching professions idea of a norm at the time?
 
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Interesting poll!

Me: Right Handed - Left Hand Fork / Right Hand Knife

U know what I find intriguing with pretty much all my mates...when we go to the Indian for a curry they all struggle when eating the rice & curry cuz they eat it with.....a knife in left hand and fork in right. They shovel the rice onto the fork and quickly down it. I never say anythin but why struggle lol grab the ol' spoon (or even just use just a fork?) not the end of the world...just an observation...heh One of them even uses the knife to *eat*...its one of them blunt rounded butter knives so absolutely safe but still....funny to see!
 
I'm right-handed and I use the fork in my right hand, I'm always told that it's "wrong" to do it this way, but as far as I'm concerned, if the food is entering my mouth I couldn't give 2 *****.
 
Meridian said:
No it doesn't. Again: which handed you are is a sum of all the activities that you do, and which hand dominates the most. If you write right-handed, but do absolutely everything else in the world left handed, then you are a leftie not a rightie. The idea that it is which hand you use to write with which says which handed you are, is down to simple laziness.
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Er.. not really. Writing is pretty much the deciding factor, not laziness, efficiency. But it's okay, you want to be special and different and I appreciate that, Mr. Leftie :).

Anyway, I force myself to eat the proper way, that it as British etiquette dictates. What is funny is whenever I go to America....
 
im right handed but i hold my knife in my left hand. i dont understand why some people says it rude to eat like this :/ i find it wierd. even though im right handed i would prefer to also drive a left hand car. even thoiugh ive never driven i cant imagine driving on the right... it will feel wierd....


soz if this doesnt make sense
 
I use my knife in the left hand and fork in the right.

I write right handed, played cricket left handed and when I boxed some years back I was a southpaw.

As such I am shunned by society.
 
the correct way for a right handed person is fork in left, knife in right.

i however am right handed and have my fork in right, knife in left... my reasoning being when i eat with a fork alone, i use my right hand.
 
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