I did this for a few years and it was amazing.
as a single dad living with one teenager kid, the two plate strategy was a total game changer.
Sometimes you need more than one teaspoon during a meal? Say if you have soup and tea and hate to eat soup with the tablespoon.
premature optimisation
It happens sometimes.
I’ve got 2 of everything just in case. Dirty dishes can’t pile up if they don’t exist.
You underestimate some of us
You underestimate yourself. You’ll get this.
I have a giant stack of plates. So they can go into the dish washer after I use them. Same thing with boxer shorts and the laundry.
Also to support any surprise guests!
I was given so much stuff when I bought my house. My one aunt had a shopping addiction and just gave me all of the kitchen shit. I live alon and my house is too small and laid out too weird for me to comfortably have guests. Idk what to do with everything, so it just stays in a cabinet. I don’t want to throw it out because it’s nice, but I have no use for it
If you can’t sell it you might be able to donate it to a thrift store.
Excuse me, it goes: Fork->Knife->Spoon->tea spoon.
I don’t know what this is but it’s certainly not in keeping with the lord’s way.
I think you’ve swapped knife and fork…
Right chopstick -> left chopstick -> porcelain soup spoon -> packets of unused plastic foldable forks that came with the instant noodles
Do chopsticks have an orientation?
Yes, but their orientation is none of your business.
Yeah just like Twix.
does the left chopstick also taste better?
God, I love Asian soup apoons!
Me too, the shape is just so perfect for so many things. I bought some recently at the Vietnamese market nearby. They have fancy little roses surrounded by a filigree pattern printed on them and say “English” on the handle in some Victorian-looking cursive font lmao. I love them.
Finnish mnemonic: Haaveilu. Haarukka=fork, veitsi=knife, lusikka=spoon.
Haaveilu=daydreaming, reverie
Personally, I prefer dessert spoon, fork, knife, then tea spoon.
What the actual fuck!? The knives always go on the outside, far left or far right.
We’re a family of three with a 19 year old, so our cutlery drawer looks just like this unless we ask him to bring all the dishes from his room.
That struggle is real and universal! We found utensils buried in our back yard, at a friend’s house… it’s nuts!
He’s 19 years old, and you have to ask him to bring his dirty dishes out from his room because he is leaving them all in there?
Dude I’m 38 soon and I have to bring dishes in from the WFH office once in a while. Watching some YouTube during lunch or whatever. Then back to working. Then family comes home and it’s up out of the chair to start dinner and whatnot, sometimes the dishes get forgotten and left behind.
Yeah, I can understand that. That’s normal. But a 19 year old eating alone in their room so much, and collecting all of the dishes in the household, so the family has none and has to actively seek them out and ask for them is what’s odd to me.
Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to make it sound like that 19 year old isn’t poorly raised. They definitely are poorly raised. I just meant to say I’m not too far off myself. 😅
No worries, I think a lot of us have these periods in our lives where we neglect stuff like this at times. Just the 19 year old living at home and hoarding dirty dishes seems to hit different when they need to be asked to bring them out and they’re still living with their parents.
HAHA TEENAGERS AMIRITE
F’realz
Knife should be on the left and the spoons on the right. Fite me.
You think I’m worried about fighting someone that has to reach over the gentry silverware to grab the knife?
My fork is pointier than the butter knives! I’ll stab you!
This is a valid argument and I’d hoped nobody would mention it. 😡
What if they are a lefty?
Even match, The winner goes to the defender assuming lair advantage.
I see, but my butler grants advantage on all reactions within a 5ft radius when performing the “Set Table Feat”, I know that applies to cordially invited enemies as well but the de-buff technically only says “applies to enemies” so I think that means he gets to roll a flat 20 but I will need a ruling from the DM.
The fight would have been mine if it wasn’t for the meddling buttler, you only had one knife to steal.
No, No, No, it says right here you may use the Fork as an improvised weapon without your Dexterity modifier with disadvantage.
It wouldn’t be in character. I already went for the knife. Don’t want to meta game.
Fork, knife, spoon, teaspoon
Well in fancy restaurants, which should be the example we all follow because of how much better than us they are, the knife is always pointed in towards the plate and closest to the plate. This reduces odds of getting cut accidentally. Otherwise the silverware should be arranged from the outside to the inside in order that they’re meant to be used for each course because trying to truck your guests is a signal that you want to embarrass them with knowledge they aren’t generally expected to actually have. Spoons and forks should be grouped.
Fite! Fite!
I’ve always done it (big) spoon, fork, knife, then teaspoons in a smaller tray underneath the main 3. But I moved forks to the left and spoons to the right and now I’m always getting confused and it doesn’t feel right, even 3 months later
If I ever put my phone in my left pocket, I will lose my mind looking for it.
I don’t know how it applies to cutlery drawers, but my parents taught me that when setting the table, the silverware should be in alphabetical order.
Alphabetical order based on what language? Assuming English, since your comment is in English, but I’m curious if the rule would “translate” to other languages.
Changing language can’t change what’s right. I think I win this one.
Indeed. Though my mother was quadrilingual and attempted to help me be at least bilingual, the only language in which I know more than a few words - written or spoken - is American English. As such, I’m not qualified to answer how diverse this system is, though I would be interested in hearing from someone who is.
Ewwww arbitrary!
Not to say etiquette isn’t arbitrary, but the two top results (all I bothered to check) for my search about silverware placement suggests that the “correct” order is fork on the left, knife first on the right, then spoon furthest right. This is, indeed, alphabetical order.
So while it may be arbitrary, it isn’t arbitrary on an individual level.
I was so bad at keeping on top of washing my dishes in Uni that I absolutely decided to have exactly 1 plate, cup, mug,and each cutlery. Can’t have more dirty dishes than you have dishes.
This is the way. Friends think I really like this one bowl. Truth is I like an empty sink, so I force myself to wash it by only owning one bowl.
Just don’t leave them in the sink and you can do the same with multiple of each, saving you the wash up. Just out them straight into the dishwasher. Saves energy, water and time.
I just recently got rid of 90% of my silverware and over half my plates and bowls for this very reason
Been travelling in an RV for a while now. Family of 3. Have 3 forks, 2 knives (because adults cut the kid’s food) and 4 plates since you need somewhere to put food off the BBQ that isn’t someone’s plate. It’s glorious. So easy to clean up.
See, if I had that guys place you would find these 4 utensils in the sink because I’m a monster
He dishwashes daily? How inefficient.
Unless they have enough plates and utensils and are willing to risk a mold problem to save up plates with gunks of food over the course of a week to run the dishwasher at good efficiency, it’s far simpler, cheaper, and more hygienic to just wash them by hand.
it’s far simpler, cheaper, and more hygienic to just wash them by hand.
In that amount, yes. But usually, dishwasher is more efficient and hygienic
In hindsight I should have used “or” instead of “and”.
But of course! I really miss having a dishwasher since I flew back home from the US. I know that they absolutely do a better job at cleaning than humans can, and loading it up properly and keeping it organized is such dopamine hit for my OCD brain.
If you live alone, though, I’d advise against using it, or at least get a way smaller dishwasher.
OP is a fancy one with their actual silverware. When i was a bachelor, it was box of plastic forks, box of plastic spoons, and box of plastic knives.
Saving up for singular silverware would probably save you money in the long run
I usually get them from take out places or the cafeteria. Never bought any single use items during my bachelor years.
And less microplastics
And less trash to take care of.
it’s not even silver, more like stainless steel around here.
Same here. My poitn being you can get a fork knife and spoon for under 5 bucks. Saves on the single use cutlery.
you can honestly get by with just a spoon. need a butter knife? use the spoon handle. need to jab something? just scoop it instead. need to cut something? just cook it a little more so it gets soft
I have 4 of each just in case I don’t feel like doing the dishes today
The pictured method forces disipline. Honestly a tub of alcohol wipes in the kitchen and a quick wipe down with one of those works pretty well for cutlery
Don’t most sets come with 4?
lol two spoons and a fork, what a waste. i only use one spoon for everything.
edit: ooh i get it now, they have a significant other who sometimes visits. (big spoon, small spoon)
Sometimes I use a small spoon for ice cream. Big spoon for cereal though I’m not fuckin around.
Did they borrow these from a restaurant. I just find it more menacing to just buy 1 of each, searched online and I can’t find a single reasonably priced utensil set that only sells 1 of each in the set.
2 words: Thrift. Shop.
Walmart sometimes sells utensils individually in store, they’re loose in bins with a little plastic price barcode attached
Dollar stores sell singles
In some Europe countries the all Chinese shops offer that option
