Poll: knife and fork handling.

[AiiR]

Knife in right, fork in left. Using my dominant hand to cut allows greater precision.

 

[nex20]

Im right handed. Always fork in the right hand.

 

[kylew]

I use my right hand with my fork and my left hand for my knife.

I really don't get why people are going on about "being brought up proper". It has absolutely nothing to do with that, it's about what you're comfortable with, who cares are cutlery etiquette? It's simply unimportant, it's just a means to getting food from the plate to your mouth.

As for those talking about "weaker hand uses the fork so I can use my superior dexterity in my dominant hand to cut" what's wrong with you? Surely your dominant side isn't that vastly "stronger" than your non-dominant side that you would struggle? *facepalm*

I can use cutlery in either hand and it's fine, I don't have any issues with mashing my food up due to poor hand eye co-ordination, I just happen to prefer using my right hand for my fork and left hand for my knife.

I am definitely right handed, but I can do a lot of stuff with my left hand just as well as my right hand and there isn't a perceivable strength difference between either side.

 

[Haiku]

Fork in the left hand, knife in the right. The other way looks rather uncouth, particularly if you're in a decent restaurant. Admittedly it's a rather trivial detail but you could say the same about many other points of etiquette which we routinely observe.

 

[daz.rathbone]

Heheh all my life people have told me it's wierd that I'm right handed, yet hold knives in my left hand.

All of a sudden I don't feel quite so alone

FREAKS UNITE

 

[Confused]

Knife in dominant hand, fork in other. Unless it's only a fork, in which case, dominant hand.

Which for me, is my right.

 

[gjrc]

I'm right handed but was brought up properly

Fork in Left
Knife in Right

 

[krooton]

Fork in the left hand, knife in the right. The other way looks rather uncouth, particularly if you're in a decent restaurant. Admittedly it's a rather trivial detail but you could say the same about many other points of etiquette which we routinely observe.

So all left-handed people look uncouth when they eat "the proper way" then?

If I lie and say I am left-handed, my unchanged eating technique suddenly becomes acceptable?

Stupid rule is borderline lobotomy logic.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

So what's the difference when holding a fork, on it's own?

I'm right handed.. and as such I keep the fork in the right hand, regardless of if I have a knife/spoon/etc

 

[Judgeneo]

I use a Fork by itself if its something like pasta or chilli, where having a cutting implement in one hand seems pointless.

The big question that should have been the debate is:

Q.When eating pudding, do you:

1. Use a spoon
2. Use a fork
3. Use a spoon and a fork

For the record, I'm the third one.

 

[krooton]

I use a Fork by itself if its something like pasta or chilli, where having a cutting implement in one hand seems pointless.

The big question that should have been the debate is:

Q.When eating pudding, do you:

1. Use a spoon
2. Use a fork
3. Use a spoon and a fork

For the record, I'm the third one.

Depends on the pudding, runny/icecream/jelly = spoon, cake/tart = fork.

 

[lookitsjonno]

i'm weired, I find myself swapping hands, i cant feed myself quick enough with my fork in left

 

[Haiku]

So all left-handed people look uncouth when they eat "the proper way" then?

If I lie and say I am left-handed, my unchanged eating technique suddenly becomes acceptable?

Stupid rule is borderline lobotomy logic.

Nothing I wrote implied that you should switch depending on your handedness. The generally accepted usage is the fork with the left hand and the knife with the right, entirely regardless of whether you're left or right-handed.

 

[krooton]

Nothing I wrote implied that you should switch depending on your handedness. The generally accepted usage is the fork with the left hand and the knife with the right, entirely regardless of whether you're left or right-handed.

Well it's still pointless that you can use a fork in your right hand if it is on it's own, but not if you are using a knife at the same time.

It's a rule for the sake of having a rule and serves no purpose.

 

[Von Smallhausen]

No, no, you're shunned by society because you're you. That and the hump. And the drooling. At least you got rid of the skin disease though...


M

Thank you doctor.

 

[platypus]

Well I can't vote in that poll as there's no option for me.

I use either hand for either piece of cutlery.

 

[Von Smallhausen]

Well I can't vote in that poll as there's no option for me.

I use either hand for either piece of cutlery.

Look again.

 

[Cosimo]

Look again.

Better late than never.

I presume that is for the ambidextrous mob.

 

[kylew]

Oh, I forgot to mention that I also use a spoon wherever I can get away with it, I've always preferred spoons to forks for some reason. Unless it's hard with a spoon, then I'll use one over a knife.

 

[izzy eckerslike]

As a left hander who holds knife & fork as a right handed person would it's odd that my sister is right handed but holds her cutlery left handed.

I also hold a golf club & cricket bat as per a right handed person & the first time I hired a set of left handed clubs to go with my mates for a first golf lesson I couldn't fathom out what was wrong as the clubs were back to front
The pro told me that playing right handed would mean that my dominant left arm muscle wouldn't power the club properly & he was right altho apparently if I had kept it up my right arm muscle would have improved with time but I would never be able to hit 100%