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What hand should you hold the fork on?
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By *hagTonight OP Man
over a year ago
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I have heard that it should always be the left one if you are right handed, but I am right handed and I prefer to have the fork with the right hand. I find more difficult to eat it with the left hand, what about you?  |
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I think people should hold their cutlery in the hand that they're most comfortable with.
I hold my fork in my left hand, Mr N holds his in his right.
So far we have both managed to eat without terrible mishap  |
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By *onb21Woman
over a year ago
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It should only be in your left hand if you are eating with knife and fork.
That's because you want to use your right hand for your knife, which does all the work cutting and loading your fork.
If you are eating a meal in a bowl and are not at a table, use your right hand for your fork and hold the bowl in your left. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Without heading to Debrett's on etiquette, I'm fairly certain a fork is always meant to be held in the left hand. My eldest is left handed and always struggles to lay a table the right way around and she prefers to hold the fork in her right hand.
Oddly, although I'm right handed, I wear my watch on my right arm and always have, even though convention says I should wear it on my left arm. I guess I'm cack-handed!   |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
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"Without heading to Debrett's on etiquette, I'm fairly certain a fork is always meant to be held in the left hand. My eldest is left handed and always struggles to lay a table the right way around and she prefers to hold the fork in her right hand.
Oddly, although I'm right handed, I wear my watch on my right arm and always have, even though convention says I should wear it on my left arm. I guess I'm cack-handed! "
That's what I was called as a child. I sweep like a left-hander too, apparently. |
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"I have heard that it should always be the left one if you are right handed, but I am right handed and I prefer to have the fork with the right hand. I find more difficult to eat it with the left hand, what about you? "
I am the same fork in the right hand funny looks when eatimg out "probably american you hear".
I never went for it
I realised indoctrination
even at a young age
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Ok for for the right handers..
Why do you hold your fork in your left hand to put food in your mouth, yet use a spoon in your right hand to do the same??
Im right handed and fork and spoon both held in the right hand |
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By *hagTonight OP Man
over a year ago
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"I think people should hold their cutlery in the hand that they're most comfortable with.
I hold my fork in my left hand, Mr N holds his in his right.
So far we have both managed to eat without terrible mishap "
Yes. I think so as well as it is easier to eat in the prefered hand |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm predominantly left handed and hold fork in said left hand.
While undergoing physio on my left hand (following nearly losing three fingers to a bench saw!  ) I asked my physiotherapist why even though being left handed my right hand felt stronger and she said your prominent hand tends to be become very dexterous and delicate while the opposite hand becomes like a vice because you just use it to grip things tightly in place, like when you saw a piece of wood. |
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By *hagTonight OP Man
over a year ago
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"It should only be in your left hand if you are eating with knife and fork.
That's because you want to use your right hand for your knife, which does all the work cutting and loading your fork.
If you are eating a meal in a bowl and are not at a table, use your right hand for your fork and hold the bowl in your left."
Yes. I use the spoon with the right hand as well when I am eating from a bowl, like soups |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I can imagine that it was more common in the victorian times to eat with the left hand for everyone and mayibe at the queen with their candle light dinners "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Without heading to Debrett's on etiquette, I'm fairly certain a fork is always meant to be held in the left hand. My eldest is left handed and always struggles to lay a table the right way around and she prefers to hold the fork in her right hand.
Oddly, although I'm right handed, I wear my watch on my right arm and always have, even though convention says I should wear it on my left arm. I guess I'm cack-handed! "
Convention is just based on the fact that we use and move our dominant hand more so higher chance of damaging the mechanism accidentally.
Also depending on wether you wear watch facing out or in and for certain professions the face can be offset as the way you hold you arm.
E.g specialist driving watches are meant to be worn facing in and the 12 is at traditional 2 Place and the windup bevels are on the left. |
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