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Bit OT, but are animals mostly right-handed like humans. I assume they will be, but never really gave it any thought until now.
Polar bears are all left handed. FACT*
* An inaccurate one. They are mostly ambidextrous.
Hols was up all last night getting that photo ready
This is why animals have bones, to act as holdy bits.
Lefties are definitely superior, although we do have to swap the knife over if we need to spread butter :/
Knives – Forks – Spoons.
+1
you have a cutlery drawer?
ok, boomer.
Why? Where are GenZ / GenA storing cutlery these days? 🤷♀️
Wow, we've been doing it wrong all these years! Ours goes spoon, fork knife with no length adjustment necessary.
I might change the order tonight after I've washed up, just to wind SWMBO up. 😈
Ours goes spoon, fork knife
As does mine. Because We've Always Done It This Way, it's probably a legacy from my gran.
Chuck it all in together.
Front to back K-F-S-TS long stuff like skewers and chopsticks to the right.
Hols is trying to look smart but silverware has no place in the kitchen/scullery and should be in its case in the dining room dresser with the good plates after being polished under the supervision of the butler.
Who cares about toilet paper
I do.
Before Covid / WFH I was in an ongoing war with an unknown pervert at work who kept turning the loo roll the wrong way round so that the loose paper hangs against the wall.
I, obviously, as any right thinking person would, kept turning it back to the proper way.
Hangings too good for ’em
Facing forwards, just to really piss them off at the end
Knives – Forks – Spoons
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teaspoons in the horizontal slot below the above, everything else chucked in the other compartment or in the draw below
Knife, fork and spoon.
Because the knife is slim, the fork is a bit wider and the spoon even widerer.
teaspoons, spoons, forks, knives.
Knife, fork and spoon.
Because the knife is slim, the fork is a bit wider and the spoon even widerer.
So... why not spoon, fork, knife? Equally valid logic assuming your compartments are all the same size.
Equally valid logic
Oh, it's logic you're looking for is it?
OK here's the logic. The majority of the population (i.e. Non-weirdos) are right handed.
It's more convenient for a right hander to take things from the right hand side of the drawer.
Therefore the most commonly used items should be placed in order from the most used at the right to the least used at the left.
In our house that'd be spoons (the kids usually get through at least 2 bowls of cereal each every day), then forks and then knives used the least.
Which would give you the classic Knife - Fork - Spoon left to right configuration. As it should be.
For me from left to right it's serving spoons (long slot), spoons, forks and then knives, with tea spoons in the slot underneath the spoon, fork and knife slots.
I am however a lefty and I can confirm that I am weird.
spoons, forks and then knives
Exactly what the logic suggests for a weirdo southpaw.
The locations are generally predetermined for the big serving spoon compartment and the little tea spoon at the front compartment.
Despite my original posting I am relatively relaxed about spoons, they can be on far right or far left, but the fork knife order is the one that makes my skin itch. You lay the table with a fork on the left and knife on the right. Why on earth would any sane person put them the opposite way around in the drawer?
Why on earth would any sane person put them the opposite way around in the drawer?
because logic.
This means forks and knives reflect the order they are laid on the table (except for weirdy left handers)
Weirdy leftie (in all senses) here.
And I have my fork in my left hand and knife in my right - YOU LOT HAVE GOT IT WRONG!
My logic - knife hand does the easy job. Cutting stuff on your plate - the knife goes nowhere near your mouth (unless you are a heathen). Fork hand - that does the fancy pants swizzly dexterous stuff. It deserves your best hand - not your second rate hand. If eating fork only surely you put it in your right hand - if so why not keep it there full time?
Weirdos.
The stabby corn eaters are in a ziplok bag to avoid separation / puncture wounds
Got a link for your kevlar ziplock bags?
Incidentally: knives - forks - spoons. Because sometimes you need a knife and fork, sometimes a spoon and fork (spaghetti), but (almost) never a knife and spoon.
Spoons – Forks – Knives
The Muffin Man is correct and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise.
I was surprised no-one had trotted that out Perchy.
Keeping the classics alive
Spoons go at one with side not bothered but forks then knifes is definitely a requirement of good order.
I get angry when people stack large plates on top of small plates. My mother in law does this. That alone is enough reason to dislike her.
I'm with Perchy on this. It's far more nuanced than just knives, forks, spoons.
Or you could optimise with a few of these but then you might find yourself pulling them out of your face.
Is that so? I always wondered.
Yes, Lefties ARE weirdos.
Leftie here 😉
Time Magazine 1969 -
"As TIME explained in 1969, “southpaws, gallock-handers, chickie paws and scrammies” were seen as sinister—literally, since the word means “left”—for centuries. “In the Middle Ages, for instance, the left-hander lived in danger of being accused of practicing witchcraft,” the article explained. “The Devil himself was considered a southpaw, and he and other evil spirits were always conjured up by left-handed gestures.”
Exactly what I was getting at, @convert.
It’s more convenient for a right hander to take things from the right hand side of the drawer.
Have you tried placing your feet four inches further left, thus solving the problem?
Like most left-handers I am acutely aware, far more than any righty could possibly begin to imagine, of the awkwardness of the world being wrong-handed. As a spurious example, take your bank card out of your wallet and offer it up to the ATM; oops, it's the wrong way around, I need to turn it 180'; complete a transaction, go to remove the card, there's an asymmetric plastic guard over the slot which means you physically can't get at it with your left hand and have to use your right. You've probably never even noticed it.
No big deal in the grand scheme of things, but our lives are filled with these left-hostile micro-aggressions. Trust me, "most commonly used cutlery being on the left / right" does not fall into this category.
The locations are generally predetermined for the big serving spoon compartment and the little tea spoon at the front compartment.
That's on the left in my drawer. You'd put spoons together, yes?
were seen as sinister—literally, since the word means “left”—for centuries.
Latin innit. Sinister = left, dexter = right. Hence also dexterity et al. Ambidextrous, you can use both hands as well as your right.
Knives, forks, spoons. The area for knives in the organisers is longer than the other two. Because the knives are a little longer than forks and spoons.
Jam first. It's more stable than cream.
Have you tried placing your feet four inches further left, thus solving the problem?
Impossible. Cutlery drawer is in the left hand corner of the kitchen innit.
Also, you do know that I just made all that shit up on the fly just to mess with you, right?
OP is almost entirely correct. But...
...clotted cream goes on top of jam. As per Devonshire/Cornish tradition.
Purely because, how do you spread a more viscous substance on top of a lesser one?
Also, you do know that I just made all that shit up on the fly just to mess with you, right?
left I think you'll find. Behind the mint sauce.
Thank you OP.
I've always felt our kitchen was lacking in its balance, it's a little thread pulled in the fabric of our Fung Shui.
I'm now able to walk into the kitchen, open the cutlery drawer and bask in todays change to make it fork-knife-spoon.
Spoons – Forks – Knives in our house.
Funnily enough same here, but I've no idea why.
you have a cutlery drawer?
ok, boomer.
Where do you keep yours? Or do you only eat pizza?
Impossible. Cutlery drawer is in the left hand corner of the kitchen innit.
Move it to a different drawer. Do I have to think of everything?
Also, you do know that I just made all that shit up on the fly just to mess with you, right?
I'd be very disappointed if you genuinely thought I was taking this seriously.
Purely because, how do you spread a more viscous substance on top of a lesser one?
Off topic but, this. The "jam on top" brigade are demonstrably just using insufficient cream.
Knife, fork, spoon, so in the order of laying out on the table for us. However we have 2 layers. The lower layer for our old cutlery set we've kept for the odd occasion we have people round and need additional numbers, and the upper layer for our newer and nicer cutlery set that we use day to day. Of course the two layers should never be mixed up or flipped around.