How to use and hold cutlery

here's all you need to know about cutlery how to hold use and position this is a fairly classic british table setting forks on the left hand side knives and spoons on the right nothing is above the setting you've all seen the film's titanic or pretty woman we really do start using the cutlery on the outside and working our way in before we begin the napkin goes on our lap the first course is soup conventionally it's held in the right hand like this when eating soup we scoop away from us and then eat the soup from the side of the spoon closest to us when resting the soup spoon should go just under the soup plate on the base plate at an angle imagine the plate is a clock it goes at six o'clock next fish cutlery we hold these just like a normal knife and fork the resting and finish positions are the same as with any knife and fork which we'll cover now during the main course finger down the knife please it's not a pen so don't hold it like one when resting place the cutlery at 340. if you imagine they are the hands of a clock the bridge of the fork should rest over the blade of the knife when finished the cutlery is placed at 6 30 on the plate like so now there are some international variants to this in the usa the cutlery will be placed at a slight angle at 4 20 to signal you finished in much of europe the cutlery would actually go closer to 3 15 with the tines of the fork facing down finally the cutlery for the sweet course usually we should use both a fork and a spoon and the same rules apply when resting like so at 3 40 when finished at 6 30 or 4 20 or 3 15. it's up to you remember once a piece of cutlery is dirty it never goes back on the table my thanks to arthur price and royal crown derby

Channel: William Hanson

Views: 1,689,362

Keywords: manners, etiquette, dining, uk, england, britain, silverware, fork, knife, spoon, finishing school, expert, tutorial, silver, china

Id: _R70v6xDr_s

Length: 1min 52sec (112 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 27 2019