I like having knives, forks, spoons left to right as that is how I say it “grab a knife and fork”.
I am staying in an Airbnb and they have the spoons separating the knives and forks and wonder if this is in insane or maybe I am the minority/insane one?
You guys organize your utensils?
(/s btw:-P)
Silverware caddy, forks go in the fork shape. :)
I’m taking this as obviously the correct answer if the fancy silverware manufacturer recommends that order.
I checked the dsm and cutlery drawer organization is not a criteria for sanity. Deep breath and enjoy your holiday.
I’m working with , left to right, big fork, little fork, little spoon, big spoon, butter knives, then perpendicular above them are a clutter of baby sized versions, and above that reusable straws
I don’t.
Organize?
What’s this organize thing you speak of?
I take it that thinking about organising my utensil drawer means I have too much free time? But hey I like to think about things.
Actually it’s a joke, and a reference to a movie (although I do forget which movie).
Do people really put so much thought into it? I added a separator to my drawer and the cutlery got whatever slot they were randomly thrown into, so I’ve got forks, knives, spoons, more spoons, and teaspoons (I have a lot of spoons for some reason). I’m not attached to that layout and if it changed I wouldn’t really care.
Probably not, I was curious. It’s a pretty petty thing to be annoyed about.
The internet is full of people that may like to share some idiosyncrasies for the entertainment. These things are unique and at the end of the day is truly unimportant.
Except I’m right and that person that has no divider at all is possibly on watch lists.
I have a lot of spoons for some reason
Salad fingers?
Well, since I have a prefab divided organizer, I use what it came with: knives, forks, teaspoons, tablespoons, smaller forks. Now, in our case, we have table and salad forks, though the salad forks we have lack the dedicated “cutting” edge.
There’s also two other sections that aren’t shaped for specific utensils. One is on the left of the table knives, and is used for our steak knives and a couple of paring and utility knives. The other is smaller and is under the forks & spoons. That’s used for crap like corn cob holders and such that is rarely used.
Now, I’m used to that layout because we’ve had that organizer since I was a kid, so I wouldn’t change now. But, ideally, I would have the two types of forks next to each other, effectively swapping the teaspoons and salad forks in placement.
And that drawer doesn’t contain the “fancy” utensils like dedicated fish forks and such, we keep those in a bag in another drawer because the truth is that they’re never more useful than a regular fork for casual home dining. They serve a purpose when you’re having a fairly narrow range of dishes that you just aren’t going to fuck with often.
I switch the knives spoons and forks without telling anyone just to spice life up a bit
Little spoons, big spoons, forks, knives. And yes they are insane :p
Useing a dividing tray:
Chopsticks - Table Spoon - Tea Spoon - Butterknives - other
At least here the knives and forks are paired.
Knife+Fork makes sense if you’re eating thigns like pork-shops, chicken, or other large peices of meat.
Since I don’t eat meat, I don’t really use knives or forks; Chopsticks and spoons are my workhorses.I love hearing about “other” (from the perspective of my own growing up) ways of eating food. We have chopsticks and use them infrequently so they are in the “everything else” drawer.
In my parents’ house similar to what you said, knifes and forks adjacent and spoons to one side (I don’t remember the exact order). When I moved in with my now husband he said it made more sense to him to have spoons in the middle and I didn’t care that much about it, so we have it like that. I have to say though, I do see an advantage to having the fork, spoon, knife order: when grabbing several pairs (fork and knife) it’s easy to just take each with one with different hands and count them out. And it’s easier once you have knives on the right hand and forks on the left to set a big table with one on each side of the plate.
Everything in a cylinder
Knives, forks, table spoons and tea spoons separately, that’s eating cutlery, cooking cutlery like bigger knives, ladles etc is bunched up in the biggest compartment
I’m with you OP, left to right ~ Knives ~ Forks ~ Spoons~ plus the tea spoons go in their own auxiliary area.
