What is the proper way to use a knife and fork? my dad kinda makes it a big deal that i dont do it the way he does.
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mikol
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It depends on when and why. Like, if you're just using a fork, for like, veggies, you just use your fork in your right hand, and hold it... oh that's hard to explain. Hold it the way you're supposed to. Haha. But if you're eating, say, steak, and cutting it, you hold the fork in the left hand with your index finger at the base of the fork part, like, the neck of the fork. Then cut with your right hand. To pick up the piece, use the fork in your left hand; don't transfer for each bite. Unless you want to cut all your steak first and *then* eat it, you could switch the fork back to your right hand once all the meat is cut into bite sized pieces. Hope this helps.
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My feeling is you use it however you want as long as it harms noone thats ok. In "proper " circles you should us it curved side downwards, using the knife to push food onto it, and never as a "shovel" even for peas or mashed potatoes. My dad made a deal out of it for five or six years, almost every day, using comments like "remember your technique today". In the end I just did it my way which is shovelling, and forking when appropriate, but a mixture of the two, and have done ever since, and have not had any problems in my life because of that. Im not interested in messing about trying to get peas onto a fork one by one with a knife, mashing them up in the process. Better just to scoop them up with your fork. There is a way out of this fork etiquette if you cant handle the proper method. I believe it is acceptable to do away with the knife entirely, hold the fork in the other hand, and then it is acceptable to use it like a scoop/shovel.
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