In a setting, must the fork be on the left with a knife and spoon on the right, or are there alternate justifiable arrangements?
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In a setting, must the fork be on the left with a knife and spoon on the right, or are there alternate justifiable arrangements?
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To lay ones table you put the spoon and desert fork across the top of the square, spoon faces left and follows round all the same way. The knives are on the right, starter on outside, main, desert. Forks are the same. Serviette on the right if using a ring, on the side plate if not.
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In civilised nations, we eat with the knife in our right hand and the fork in our left, or with chopsticks in our right hand, or with our right hand alone. (all these customs make life harder for left-handers…)
Uncivilised nations transfer the fork from the left to the right hand after cutting their meat, but the less said about them the better.
In a conventional European place-setting, the eating-irons are placed where they are ready to be used, thus, knives and spoons on the right, forks on the left; and in order of courses, with the irons for the first-course outermost. Since this can take up quite a lot of table-space, it is acceptable (although considered vulgar by some) to put the dessert irons (spoon and fork) across the top. It is sometimes acceptable to lay the butter-knife, which is used to butter bread served with the meal, across the side-plate on the left-hand side.
Or you can do what we tend to do in our house, which is dump a pile of cutlery in the middle of the table from which everyone grabs what they need.
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Unless you’re getting avant garde and arty, the standard place setting puts forks on the left, knives and spoons on the right. Asparagus tongs, snail tongs (they are not the same) and various other specialized cutlery goes above the plate, with the business end facing left.
If you’re in the US, the same rules apply, even f you’re going to switch the fork to your right hand after you cut your meat or trim your french fries. Yes, I said trim your french fries. You stab them with your fork so they are neatly stacked one above the next, then trim the ends so you have a neat mouthful to eat. Of course, if you’re eating in your car, or a place where the cutlery is made from plastic rather than stainless steel, silver plate, silver, vermeil or gold, different rules apply.
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