How do you Fork?

[Fearless Leader]

My friends think its weird i use my fork in my left hand (im left handed, not that weird) but with the prongs down.

I'm the only lefty in my family and the only one who eats with his left hand and only one with prongs down, not sure why I do it this way.

Note: I live in the USA.
A German exchange at my school also uses a fork the way I do and said most people he knows does it that way too.

Just curious how do you Fork?

 

[dukebound85]

i grab it with my fist., like when using a chisel haha

but seriously i dont know probably both ways

 

[JNB]

I only fork with condiments. Otherwise, at my age I just use my hand...

 

[WildCowboy]

For me: left hand tines down while cutting, and right hand tines up while eating.

For anyone who is curious Wikipedia covers the differences between American and European styles pretty well.

 

[zioxide]

For me: left hand tines down while cutting, and right hand tines up while eating.

For anyone who is curious Wikipedia covers the differences between American and European styles pretty well.

wow, wikipedia really does have a page for everything...

 

[twoodcc]

i use mine more like a shovel

 

[eric55lv]

im left handed and what ever im grabbing with the fork I always stick in the frok into the food

 

[GoCubsGo]

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This is all way to easy. It's like this open invite to let so much out. FWIW I favor the top i mean my left hand.

 

[dpaanlka]

Yay I'm in the majority so far...

 

[MacNut]

For me: left hand tines down while cutting, and right hand tines up while eating.

Isn't that the official polite way to do it.

 

[emw]

I typically use mine as per the "standard" US method. Unless I'm in Europe, in which case I generally try to follow their conventions.

However, the way I spoon is a whole different story.

 

[MacNut]

With your wife I hope.

 

[emw]

With your wife I hope.

I was referring to how, not who. Stop trying to fork with me.

 

[MacNut]

Id rather spork, tyvm

 

[Koodauw]

I use my fork in the left hand, knife in the right. Everyone thinks I am odd, but i can eat much faster this way.

 

[jsw]

It's usually just inherent in many of my Terminal commands, although I'll sometimes do it programatically. However, I don't see either as an options in the poll.

When eating, though, I honestly don't know. I think I hold the fork in my right hand all the time. I'm not sure which way the tines go. The fork's usually moving too quickly to easily see.

 

[jamesarm97]

ditto what the previous person said. I usually hold fork in the left hand down only when I am eating something like meat and are using the knife in the right hand. I dont' like to switch back and forth and it is easier to pick up meat fork down.

- James

 

[dukebound85]

I use my fork in the left hand, knife in the right. Everyone thinks I am odd, but i can eat much faster this way.

same here and im right handed. although i also do it the other way like half the time. regardless the fork and knife are always in seperate hands

 

[colocolo]

I was totally expecting this thread to be about programming... I feel like a nerd

Anyways, as I'm already here, I'll answer: left down when cutting, right up when eating.

 

[ham_man]

I rock my fork like it's a shovel.

 

[CalBoy]

My friends think its weird i use my fork in my left hand (im left handed, not that weird) but with the prongs down.

I'm the only lefty in my family and the only one who eats with his left hand and only one with prongs down, not sure why I do it this way.

Note: I live in the USA.
A German exchange at my school also uses a fork the way I do and said most people he knows does it that way too.

Just curious how do you Fork?

You are using the fork and knife to its fullest efficiency, but it's odd that you're cutting with your right hand if you're left handed. You usually put the fork in your non-dominant hand because it has less work to do (and requires less dexterity).

Isn't that the official polite way to do it.

Psh...as if.

I use my fork in the left hand, knife in the right. Everyone thinks I am odd, but i can eat much faster this way.

That's because that is the fastest way. I was taught to eat this way from a young age and at first I thought it was stupid, but after a while, you become really fast. I never switch hands and just use my left hand for the fork (I'm right handed).

 

[takao]

left hand fork right hand knife
and on direction of spronges: if i'm cutting something spronges down
if i shovel something in my mouth it's spronges up

if i eat something where don't need a knife i hold the fork in my right hand

 

[mad jew]

Forks are for weirdoes. I use a funnel and a blender, in my left hand with the blendy bits up.

 

[Cloudane]

Forking good thread

Well I'm right handed so the fork is on the left where a knife is required (easier to cut things with your dominant hand), or on the right when it's just the fork.

Up or down depends on whether it's a stabby meal or a scoopy meal.

 

[Lau]

Well I'm right handed so the fork is on the left where a knife is required (easier to cut things with your dominant hand), or on the right when it's just the fork.

Up or down depends on whether it's a stabby meal or a scoopy meal.

Exactly.