You guys organize your utensils?
(/s btw:-P)
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It all goes into one pile. Steak knives, paring knives, forks, spoons, butter knives, etc.
Gotta make getting cutlery spicy.
Make sure bandaids are handy - in fact, better through them into the pile too:-P
I bought a drawer organizer and then put the utensils in the slots they fit best in.
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.
they have the spoons separating the knives and forks
That's complete anarchy; I hope you corrected it!
You grab a knife, knife and fork, a fork, a fork and spoon or a just spoon, you never grab a knife and spoon.
I'm glad someone else is outraged as I was, enough to make a shit post about it on the internet anyway.
It's worse than mixing dessert and soup spoons!
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'm with you OP, left to right ~ Knives ~ Forks ~ Spoons~ plus the tea spoons go in their own auxiliary area.
Organize?
Whatβs 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?
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
My psychopath ex-wife took out the separator and just dumped them all in at random. Only one of the reasons sheβs my ex.
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.
For a meal with a soup as a starter you'd set the table like this:
Fork, plate, knife, spoon
Now take away the plate and you have the, for ne most logical way of putting cutlery into the drawer.
I got half my spoons, forks, and knifes in a separator. Everything else goes into the overflow/non conforming heap.
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.
I am the exact opposite of you, mainly because my utensil organizer has the largest compartments on the right, so that's where butter knives and chopsticks go. Also forks are in the middle because I use them less frequently than spoons.
Edit: apparently I can't remember left from right.
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 own one spfknife. No organization needed.
I switch the knives spoons and forks without telling anyone just to spice life up a bit
This was one of the earliest discussions I had when I moved in with my partner. She had the utensils spoon - fork - knife and I had knife-fork-spoon. (She won btw)
Where did you land on the dishwasher debate, utensils up or down in the cutlery basket? Our friends went with one of those top tray dishwashers to avoid that debate.
Up, since I fill the dishwasher π . I have been trying to convince her to get a top tray dishwasher, but for now I've not won the battle. Personally I prefer the convenience of not accedentially having a utensil outside the basket and messing with the rotor.
I find with my partner debates are a huge amount of compromise like your cutlery drawer. For example I wanted two kids, she wanted four, we compromised and had four.
Everything in a cylinder
We have it the same as you. I never really gave it any thought.
I think these things are a matter of personal preference but only really strikes me when I go to get something out when I'm not at home. (At home you can only open the drawer halfway to grab something.)
I have them arranged in the order the little plastic tray has for them. I've honestly never thought of the order of cutlery in my friends houses and find your level of obsession with it slightly eccentric, but in an endearing and humorous way.
Spoons > can opener > turnips > crimper > one teaspoon > mushy peas
Cup on the counter with forks spoons and chopsticks. There are a couple steak knives in a drawer.
Spoons, forks, knives. That's the only correct order. Knives are on the right because you use them with your right hand, obviously.
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.
I just throw regular eating cutlery in one drawer, sharp knives in another, and cooking utensils like spatulas and whatnot in another.
Your knife goes on the right on your place setting next to your spoon. Your fork goes on the left. If you want to set a place settling with all 3, it's easiest to put spoons in the middle.
This is an interesting take, I don't often have several course meals and maybe the intricacies of proper dining are not going to be passed on to future generations. Peon status affirmed.
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
I have the arranged in the order I use them most. Spoons are on the left, then forks, then knives. I rarely need knives while eating, just for cooking.
now I have anxiety because I know for a fact that if somebody switched to them I'd be annoyed but I have no idea what order they're in so I have to go look
oh wait. I have a ADHD and I live alone so I don't use a drawer organizer, I opened the drawer and remembered that all of my cutlery is just scattered randomly in there.
I'm with you, but more because I eat rice-based dishes and it's good to have a spoon + fork combo for those.