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Do you use the correct hands for eating?
mintbro
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I'm right handed so mostly use my left hand to hold the fork and my right hand to hold the knife.
Only time I'll use the fork in my right hand is when eating spag Bol, find it almost impossible to eat with the fork in my left hand
Only time I'll use the fork in my right hand is when eating spag Bol, find it almost impossible to eat with the fork in my left hand
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I'm the same although I also have the spoon in my right hand when I eat soup
In any case, surely right handed people should naturally eat with the fork in their right hand?
I can't use them bloody things. They baffle me.
you should buy a spork
if I'm not eating with a knife and fork then I use my right hand to hold the utensil as that's my dominant hand? What's the correct hand?
Well I use my own hands and nobody else's hands if that's what you mean?
When I'm eating, I use the fork probably 90% more than the knife, so I'll hold the fork in my right hand.
Same here. I can't see the sense in the convention of doing it the other way round.
I'm now 60. I remember being "corrected" during school dinners, but always took no notice.
I think it's the norm among Americans, even when eating something quite knife-dependent (e.g. cut up meat etc using fork in left hand and knife in right, then put knife down and swap fork to right hand in order to insert food in mouth - no, I don't understand either).
Am left-handed, fork stays in left hand all the time even if a knife is involved.
Me too. Chopsticks and a Chinese style spoon usually.
....so yes, I guess I eat correctly
Same.
Although I much prefer vosne's reply, that sounds like much more fun!