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How do you Fork?

How do you fork?

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Virgil-TB2 said:
If you want the real poop on fork etiquette, you need to include more options in the poll because it depends on whether you have a knife or not.

- The "official" original manners on fork use is that you use it tines-down in the non-dominant hand if the knife is in the dominant hand.

- If the fork is used by itself without a knife then it's supposed to be tines-down in the dominant hand.

- If you need to "scoop" food, then technically you are supposed to use a spoon, but in "casual" situations (most situations nowadays) it's considered okay to use a fork tines-up (again in the dominant hand) as a sort of spoon surrogate but never, ever scoop food onto the fork with your fingers.
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WIN :)

Honestly, these uncultured yanks, no clue ;)

The clue is usually in how the table's set! (Not that we do all that at home, but in restaurants etc)

Oh, and

never, ever scoop food onto the fork with your fingers.
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I'm always doing that :p Not in really polite company though.
 
Jaffa Cake said:
I switch between hands and prong deployment as required. I realise this probably makes me terribly vulgar, but at least I don't eat with my mouth open.
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you are correct that it is against edicate rules to switch. Both ways are edicately correct but you are not supposed to switch between them.

For me personally I say that rule be damned and I will flip between them depending on what I am eating.
 
If I'm eating with a knife and a fork then I eat using the standard UK method which is fork in the left hand, it's just polite that way here. I do it with prongs up most of the time too. Unless cutting, then of course I need to stab whatever it is lol.

However, if I'm eating something at home which doesn't require a knife, then I hold it in my right hand which I suppose is pretty standard since I'm right handed.

I'd vote 'both' if there was an option, but since there isn't, I have voted leftie since that's what I do a majority of the time.
 
at the risk of getting fellow MacRumors members mad and posting the obligatory "this thread is a year old…" so on and so forth. i find this topic interesting.

i use a fork with my left hand prongs down while cutting and eating which i believe is the European etiquette, but when i am eating something that does not require cutting i use the fork with my right hand which is kind of like the American etiquette. so i guess i kind of have a hybrid etiquette?
 
How do I fork? Depends on the food. Spaghetti, meat and peas all demand different strategies but never ever in a closed fist. Forking versatile, I am... but pizza and burgers do not usually get the fork treatment.
 
Cloudane said:
Forking good thread :D

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.
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I must be a weirdo then, I'm right handed but eat with my fork in my right hand, i find i can shovel it in quicker that way ( no matter how hard things are to cut )
 
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what a lovely pair :D
 

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I got called all-sorts when staying with friends in NJ USA because of the way I eat.... i'm told I eat like the queen! haha

I am right handed but i eat with fork in left ahd ALWAYS prongs down unless its peas or sweetcorn. and knife in the right hand. My family have always eaten the same
 
In following with BV- prong down for everything but pasta dishes and runny foods. Fingers for burgers, pizza, pasties. And to destroy my northern roots a fork is used with a pie. Down for the crust, up for the middle.
 
Shovel

I am with the shovel crew what i really HATE is people turning the fork over and putting the food on the back with the knife that really sucks imo !
 
Fearless Leader said:
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?
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I'm not sure what to choose.. for normal eating, fork in the fight hand, tines up.
But when I'm cutting anything, or eating meat, it's always fork in the left tines down, cutting with my right hand.
Which, as you've noted is the European Way. Most of my family is European, I suppose I learned it from them.

But what do I choose for the poll? :confused:
 
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