Which way round do you hold your cutlery?

[sir albion]

I eat with the fork in the right hand as im an arseh*ole

 

[APACHE]

It doesn't really matter unless you're one of the posher type, it goes back to the oldie days when knives were hard to comeby for the poor folk and so that they were shared at meal time. You cut your meal, most people are r/h using a knive, then you would pass on the knive to the next person and use your fork, the rich had enough knives to go round.

 

[pipkin112]

That's what you're meant to do. This is basic table etiquette!

So thats why i always got a bollocking off my parents.

 

[Lady Gull]

Fork in the left, knife in the right for me x

 

[brakespear]

by the handles.

 

[hitony]

Fork in the left, knife in the right for me x

You sure? Not how I remember it

Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk

 

[willow147]

This has always interested me. I put the fork in my right hand and the knife in my left, which I know is not the 'proper' way of doing things. But it just feels so unnatural to use them the way you're meant to. My theory is that if I am right-handed (which I am), my right hand is clearly my dominant/stronger hand. I then ask myself which of the implements in question require the most power, movement and accuracy. The answer is the fork, hence I use my right hand for it.

Exactly

 

[16bha]

Sharp and pointy bits sticking out!

 

[robinsonsgrin]

right-handed, knife left, fork right..

it is as we say... KNIFE and FORK no one says fork and knife do they!
does it matter as long as one can eat with manners!

 

[wunt be druv]

Arse backwards,but then I always was a bit of a shacklebreeches and am fair took to because of it.

 

[dexter]

the simple folk from the area known as croyden when using cutlery (rare as you do not need for wholesome burger and kentucky meals ) tend to use the knife in the left hand , fork in right , other than when stabbing pensioners when they use the knife in the right hand

 

[TheMajor]

Since watching Pirates of the Caribbean I always hold all cutlery between my teeth.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Easy...I put the big stick in left hand and the pointy stick in the right....no sticks....fingers will do!

 

[clapham_gull]

I'm right handed and have fork in right hand and knife in left.

I haven't extended to eating, but I'm right handed but use a mouse with both hands. 75% with left. I sometimes alternative between hands to the bemusement of others.

 

[Goring-by-Seagull]

I'm left-handed and have my fork in my left hand.

Same here

 

[8ace]

I just use a spoon in my right hand

 

[The Large One]

I just use a spoon in my right hand

I'm left-handed, but eat right-handed, (i.e. use fork (l), knife (r)).

Spoon, however, in my left hand. Once I've put the knife and fork down.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

I'm a leftie, fork in the left hand and knife in the right. I play pool and snooker left handed, but tennis right handed and I can't throw (Stones, darts, etc) with my left hand, so that has to be with the right aswell. I'm special.

 

[Tomo1794]

I'm a leftie, fork in the left hand and knife in the right. I play pool and snooker left handed, but tennis right handed and I can't throw (Stones, darts, etc) with my left hand, so that has to be with the right aswell. I'm special.

I'm similar to this! I write, throw darts and play tennis right handed, but in all two-handed sports I play left-handed e.g batting in cricket (Stuart Broad and James Anderson are the same though ). I also have my fork in the left and knife in the right though.