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NorthWestWind ,

Everything in a cylinder

404 ,

I place them in the same order the table should be made (clockwise order): forks, spoons, knives.

Moving the spoons one step sounds reasonable I guess but I’d never switch places of the forks and the knives. If the order was knives, forks I’d have to switch hands to grab them and that thought bothers me more than I thought it would. TIL this is a pet peeve of mine

variants ,

My knives stay in the wood block thing they came in on the counter and spoons forks chopsticks straws and soup spoons go in dividers in a drawer

Imgonnatrythis ,

I checked the dsm and cutlery drawer organization is not a criteria for sanity. Deep breath and enjoy your holiday.

danhakimi ,

I'm with you, but more because I eat rice-based dishes and it's good to have a spoon + fork combo for those.

LemmyKnowsBest ,

I own one spfknife. No organization needed.

Duckytoast ,

Little spoons, big spoons, forks, knives. And yes they are insane :p

DerisionConsulting ,

Useing a dividing tray:

Chopsticks - Table Spoon - Tea Spoon - Butterknives - other

Rincewindnz OP ,

At least here the knives and forks are paired.

DerisionConsulting ,

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.

Rincewindnz OP ,

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.

SwearingRobin ,

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.

MrNesser ,

I switch the knives spoons and forks without telling anyone just to spice life up a bit

southsamurai ,
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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.

andrewta ,

Organize?

What’s this organize thing you speak of?

Rincewindnz OP ,

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.

andrewta ,

Actually it’s a joke, and a reference to a movie (although I do forget which movie).

jordanlund ,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Silverware caddy, forks go in the fork shape. :)

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a04b7fda-e7d1-4a16-abcd-246cf4b592a6.jpeg

Rincewindnz OP ,

I’m taking this as obviously the correct answer if the fancy silverware manufacturer recommends that order.

Sabata11792 ,
@Sabata11792@kbin.social avatar

I got half my spoons, forks, and knifes in a separator. Everything else goes into the overflow/non conforming heap.

DirigibleProtein ,

My psychopath ex-wife took out the separator and just dumped them all in at random. Only one of the reasons she’s my ex.

Rincewindnz OP ,

Bonus points, you just use the utensil you pull out. Buttering bread and get a spoon, doable. Go for a soup spoon and end up with a fork, hard mode activated.

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