What hand do you hold the knife in ?

[Big Sauce 21]

I went out during the week to the steakhouse and one of my mates picked out that I use my left hand to cut the meat. I've never really noticed but I looked around and the other 6 were all in the right then I sussed it out the next night at home and the rest of the family use their right hand. Surely there are other left handers out there. Odd topic yes but I'm right handed for everything house.

 

[Exe Gesis]

I hold the knife with both hands

 

[Exe Gesis]

Table manners says everyone MUST hold the knife with the right hand, carve using the right, and use the fork with the left when done in conjunction.

Otherwise, when it comes to spoons and forks used alone, one MUST hold it with the right hand.

But for the ACTIVE tasks of cutting, carving, spooning, forking without knifing, etc......if your natural hand is left, you would use the left hand for those tasks only if you don't know table manners or you deliberately want to defy them especially to annoy those upper-class people who roll their noses up so much about these kinds of things.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Table manners says everyone MUST hold the knife with the right hand, carve using the right, and use the fork with the left when done in conjunction.

Otherwise, when it comes to spoons and forks used alone, one MUST hold it with the right hand.

But for the ACTIVE tasks of cutting, carving, spooning, forking without knifing, etc......if your natural hand is left, you would use the left hand for those tasks only if you don't know table manners or you deliberately want to defy them especially to annoy those upper-class people who roll their noses up so much about these kinds of things.

I don't exactly fit in the area of class! Cutting with the right is back to front, the small piece on the plate and the big piece is on the fork.

 

[Exe Gesis]

So you're a social rebel like me in being lefty and pffting table etiquette.

 

[TassieEagle]

Left. It feels more natural, screw table manners. I am not feeling like a '**** and taking twice as long to cut my food because of some stupid table manners.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

So you're a social rebel like me in being lefty and pffting table etiquette.

None what so ever.

 

[summerfan]

i can do both dont have a preferred side but i tend to always use the knife in my right hand.

 

[quickstraw]

I went out during the week to the steakhouse and one of my mates picked out that I use my left hand to cut the meat. I've never really noticed but I looked around and the other 6 were all in the right then I sussed it out the next night at home and the rest of the family use their right hand. Surely there are other left handers out there. Odd topic yes but I'm right handed for everything house.

Hate to break it to you but your parents never trained you how to eat properly. I'm amazed how many times I'm at business lunches and dinners and notice work colleagues don't know how to eat. The big one I noticed all the time is people hold their knife like a pencil. May as well wear a sign on your forehead that says "I grew up in Frankston".

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Hate to break it to you but your parents never trained you how to eat properly. I'm amazed how many times I'm at business lunches and dinners and notice work colleagues don't know how to eat. The big one I noticed all the time is people hold their knife like a pencil. May as well wear a sign on your forehead that says "I grew up in Frankston".

I'm shattered.

 

[quickstraw]

I guess some people are comfortable living in housing commission.

 

[SugarShane]

One hand on the right side of the steak, one hand on the left side, eat that bastard like a sandwich.

 

[Kardinia Boy]

I'm a knife in the left hand guy as well. Apparently my Grandfather ate like that and I copied him. It seems more natural to me as a right hander as all the left hand does is move back and forwards to cut things. My right hand with the fork does all the work in stabbing the meat/veges and moving it up to my mouth.

Stuffed if I'm going to let my unco left hand anywhere near my mouth with anything sharp. I've seen how it throws

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

Knife in right hand.

Left hand around the throat

 

[Jimmybob]

Knife in right hand.

Left hand around the throat

Trust a collingwood supporter to say that

Knife in left

 

[Ahern2Boof]

I feel totally comfortable using a fork with my left hand when eating with a knife, but using just a fork with my left, feels weird as and feel like I lose a lot of coordination.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

I went out during the week to the steakhouse and one of my mates picked out that I use my left hand to cut the meat. I've never really noticed but I looked around and the other 6 were all in the right then I sussed it out the next night at home and the rest of the family use their right hand. Surely there are other left handers out there. Odd topic yes but I'm right handed for everything house.

I said everything house....

*else

 

[Shell]

Am a leftie.

Fork in left.

 

[BotsMaster]

The correct hand.

 

[The_Todd07]

Left for me
Right-handed with everything else and fairly *ed when trying leftie
Except pool, I'm better with my right but can play reasonably well left handed

 

[Cats408]

I use the knife left handed even though I am right handed.

 

[BrewSmackerVeiny]

I'm right handed and always hold the knife in my left hand, feels awkward to switch them.

 

[Natho]

Always cut with my right hand.

 

[Predator35]

Right handed with everything except using a knife or when shooting a gun.

 

[bkozican]

Right hand