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[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life.." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck are these comments? I swap utensils because my right hand has better dexterity for cutting while my left hand has better strength for gripping, but it sucks for lifting shit into my mouth. Why is this so hard for people to understand?" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck are these comments? I swap utensils because my right hand has better dexterity for cutting while my left hand has better strength for gripping, but it sucks for lifting shit into my mouth. Why is this so hard for people to understand?", ">\n\nI think it's weird how people assert how to \"eat properly\" with cutlery, as long as food doesn't run off the place or fall out of your mouth.\nI prefer it the same way you do, but I stopped as I had a controlling parent that meant I should do it the right way, so now I'm not used to the way that felt natural to me anymore.\nAll in all, I think people should be allowed to eat using utensils however way they want, as long as previously mentioned conditions are met." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck are these comments? I swap utensils because my right hand has better dexterity for cutting while my left hand has better strength for gripping, but it sucks for lifting shit into my mouth. Why is this so hard for people to understand?", ">\n\nI think it's weird how people assert how to \"eat properly\" with cutlery, as long as food doesn't run off the place or fall out of your mouth.\nI prefer it the same way you do, but I stopped as I had a controlling parent that meant I should do it the right way, so now I'm not used to the way that felt natural to me anymore.\nAll in all, I think people should be allowed to eat using utensils however way they want, as long as previously mentioned conditions are met.", ">\n\nYou're going to not use your dominant hand on the manipulation of a sharp object? Ok, lol" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck are these comments? I swap utensils because my right hand has better dexterity for cutting while my left hand has better strength for gripping, but it sucks for lifting shit into my mouth. Why is this so hard for people to understand?", ">\n\nI think it's weird how people assert how to \"eat properly\" with cutlery, as long as food doesn't run off the place or fall out of your mouth.\nI prefer it the same way you do, but I stopped as I had a controlling parent that meant I should do it the right way, so now I'm not used to the way that felt natural to me anymore.\nAll in all, I think people should be allowed to eat using utensils however way they want, as long as previously mentioned conditions are met.", ">\n\nYou're going to not use your dominant hand on the manipulation of a sharp object? Ok, lol", ">\n\nFriendly reminder that high society \"proper\" dining etiquette was completely made up and to some degree ment or be unintuitive and had to be learned as the ruling class used it as one of many means to separate themselfes from peasants." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck are these comments? I swap utensils because my right hand has better dexterity for cutting while my left hand has better strength for gripping, but it sucks for lifting shit into my mouth. Why is this so hard for people to understand?", ">\n\nI think it's weird how people assert how to \"eat properly\" with cutlery, as long as food doesn't run off the place or fall out of your mouth.\nI prefer it the same way you do, but I stopped as I had a controlling parent that meant I should do it the right way, so now I'm not used to the way that felt natural to me anymore.\nAll in all, I think people should be allowed to eat using utensils however way they want, as long as previously mentioned conditions are met.", ">\n\nYou're going to not use your dominant hand on the manipulation of a sharp object? Ok, lol", ">\n\nFriendly reminder that high society \"proper\" dining etiquette was completely made up and to some degree ment or be unintuitive and had to be learned as the ruling class used it as one of many means to separate themselfes from peasants.", ">\n\nOr... Y'know... Whatever the person is most comfortable with? Didn't realize physical ability was up to opinion now..." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck are these comments? I swap utensils because my right hand has better dexterity for cutting while my left hand has better strength for gripping, but it sucks for lifting shit into my mouth. Why is this so hard for people to understand?", ">\n\nI think it's weird how people assert how to \"eat properly\" with cutlery, as long as food doesn't run off the place or fall out of your mouth.\nI prefer it the same way you do, but I stopped as I had a controlling parent that meant I should do it the right way, so now I'm not used to the way that felt natural to me anymore.\nAll in all, I think people should be allowed to eat using utensils however way they want, as long as previously mentioned conditions are met.", ">\n\nYou're going to not use your dominant hand on the manipulation of a sharp object? Ok, lol", ">\n\nFriendly reminder that high society \"proper\" dining etiquette was completely made up and to some degree ment or be unintuitive and had to be learned as the ruling class used it as one of many means to separate themselfes from peasants.", ">\n\nOr... Y'know... Whatever the person is most comfortable with? Didn't realize physical ability was up to opinion now...", ">\n\nI always believed you cut then swap hands so you don’t eat so fast. It’s like eating soup you slide the spoon to the back of the bowl instead shoveling it into your mouth." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck are these comments? I swap utensils because my right hand has better dexterity for cutting while my left hand has better strength for gripping, but it sucks for lifting shit into my mouth. Why is this so hard for people to understand?", ">\n\nI think it's weird how people assert how to \"eat properly\" with cutlery, as long as food doesn't run off the place or fall out of your mouth.\nI prefer it the same way you do, but I stopped as I had a controlling parent that meant I should do it the right way, so now I'm not used to the way that felt natural to me anymore.\nAll in all, I think people should be allowed to eat using utensils however way they want, as long as previously mentioned conditions are met.", ">\n\nYou're going to not use your dominant hand on the manipulation of a sharp object? Ok, lol", ">\n\nFriendly reminder that high society \"proper\" dining etiquette was completely made up and to some degree ment or be unintuitive and had to be learned as the ruling class used it as one of many means to separate themselfes from peasants.", ">\n\nOr... Y'know... Whatever the person is most comfortable with? Didn't realize physical ability was up to opinion now...", ">\n\nI always believed you cut then swap hands so you don’t eat so fast. It’s like eating soup you slide the spoon to the back of the bowl instead shoveling it into your mouth.", ">\n\nStfu nerd i hold my fork and knife however i want" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck are these comments? I swap utensils because my right hand has better dexterity for cutting while my left hand has better strength for gripping, but it sucks for lifting shit into my mouth. Why is this so hard for people to understand?", ">\n\nI think it's weird how people assert how to \"eat properly\" with cutlery, as long as food doesn't run off the place or fall out of your mouth.\nI prefer it the same way you do, but I stopped as I had a controlling parent that meant I should do it the right way, so now I'm not used to the way that felt natural to me anymore.\nAll in all, I think people should be allowed to eat using utensils however way they want, as long as previously mentioned conditions are met.", ">\n\nYou're going to not use your dominant hand on the manipulation of a sharp object? Ok, lol", ">\n\nFriendly reminder that high society \"proper\" dining etiquette was completely made up and to some degree ment or be unintuitive and had to be learned as the ruling class used it as one of many means to separate themselfes from peasants.", ">\n\nOr... Y'know... Whatever the person is most comfortable with? Didn't realize physical ability was up to opinion now...", ">\n\nI always believed you cut then swap hands so you don’t eat so fast. It’s like eating soup you slide the spoon to the back of the bowl instead shoveling it into your mouth.", ">\n\nStfu nerd i hold my fork and knife however i want", ">\n\nWhy would I swap my fork to my dominant hand? Just put the food in the mouth with the left dummy." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck are these comments? I swap utensils because my right hand has better dexterity for cutting while my left hand has better strength for gripping, but it sucks for lifting shit into my mouth. Why is this so hard for people to understand?", ">\n\nI think it's weird how people assert how to \"eat properly\" with cutlery, as long as food doesn't run off the place or fall out of your mouth.\nI prefer it the same way you do, but I stopped as I had a controlling parent that meant I should do it the right way, so now I'm not used to the way that felt natural to me anymore.\nAll in all, I think people should be allowed to eat using utensils however way they want, as long as previously mentioned conditions are met.", ">\n\nYou're going to not use your dominant hand on the manipulation of a sharp object? Ok, lol", ">\n\nFriendly reminder that high society \"proper\" dining etiquette was completely made up and to some degree ment or be unintuitive and had to be learned as the ruling class used it as one of many means to separate themselfes from peasants.", ">\n\nOr... Y'know... Whatever the person is most comfortable with? Didn't realize physical ability was up to opinion now...", ">\n\nI always believed you cut then swap hands so you don’t eat so fast. It’s like eating soup you slide the spoon to the back of the bowl instead shoveling it into your mouth.", ">\n\nStfu nerd i hold my fork and knife however i want", ">\n\nWhy would I swap my fork to my dominant hand? Just put the food in the mouth with the left dummy.", ">\n\nI can't cut good with my left hand so when I have a knife i put the fork in my left" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck are these comments? I swap utensils because my right hand has better dexterity for cutting while my left hand has better strength for gripping, but it sucks for lifting shit into my mouth. Why is this so hard for people to understand?", ">\n\nI think it's weird how people assert how to \"eat properly\" with cutlery, as long as food doesn't run off the place or fall out of your mouth.\nI prefer it the same way you do, but I stopped as I had a controlling parent that meant I should do it the right way, so now I'm not used to the way that felt natural to me anymore.\nAll in all, I think people should be allowed to eat using utensils however way they want, as long as previously mentioned conditions are met.", ">\n\nYou're going to not use your dominant hand on the manipulation of a sharp object? Ok, lol", ">\n\nFriendly reminder that high society \"proper\" dining etiquette was completely made up and to some degree ment or be unintuitive and had to be learned as the ruling class used it as one of many means to separate themselfes from peasants.", ">\n\nOr... Y'know... Whatever the person is most comfortable with? Didn't realize physical ability was up to opinion now...", ">\n\nI always believed you cut then swap hands so you don’t eat so fast. It’s like eating soup you slide the spoon to the back of the bowl instead shoveling it into your mouth.", ">\n\nStfu nerd i hold my fork and knife however i want", ">\n\nWhy would I swap my fork to my dominant hand? Just put the food in the mouth with the left dummy.", ">\n\nI can't cut good with my left hand so when I have a knife i put the fork in my left", ">\n\nCounterpoint, your knife should be in your left hand and your bigger knife should be in your right hand" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck are these comments? I swap utensils because my right hand has better dexterity for cutting while my left hand has better strength for gripping, but it sucks for lifting shit into my mouth. Why is this so hard for people to understand?", ">\n\nI think it's weird how people assert how to \"eat properly\" with cutlery, as long as food doesn't run off the place or fall out of your mouth.\nI prefer it the same way you do, but I stopped as I had a controlling parent that meant I should do it the right way, so now I'm not used to the way that felt natural to me anymore.\nAll in all, I think people should be allowed to eat using utensils however way they want, as long as previously mentioned conditions are met.", ">\n\nYou're going to not use your dominant hand on the manipulation of a sharp object? Ok, lol", ">\n\nFriendly reminder that high society \"proper\" dining etiquette was completely made up and to some degree ment or be unintuitive and had to be learned as the ruling class used it as one of many means to separate themselfes from peasants.", ">\n\nOr... Y'know... Whatever the person is most comfortable with? Didn't realize physical ability was up to opinion now...", ">\n\nI always believed you cut then swap hands so you don’t eat so fast. It’s like eating soup you slide the spoon to the back of the bowl instead shoveling it into your mouth.", ">\n\nStfu nerd i hold my fork and knife however i want", ">\n\nWhy would I swap my fork to my dominant hand? Just put the food in the mouth with the left dummy.", ">\n\nI can't cut good with my left hand so when I have a knife i put the fork in my left", ">\n\nCounterpoint, your knife should be in your left hand and your bigger knife should be in your right hand", ">\n\nI have always eaten this way. I thought it was normal. Right hand dominate, hold fork in right hand." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck are these comments? I swap utensils because my right hand has better dexterity for cutting while my left hand has better strength for gripping, but it sucks for lifting shit into my mouth. Why is this so hard for people to understand?", ">\n\nI think it's weird how people assert how to \"eat properly\" with cutlery, as long as food doesn't run off the place or fall out of your mouth.\nI prefer it the same way you do, but I stopped as I had a controlling parent that meant I should do it the right way, so now I'm not used to the way that felt natural to me anymore.\nAll in all, I think people should be allowed to eat using utensils however way they want, as long as previously mentioned conditions are met.", ">\n\nYou're going to not use your dominant hand on the manipulation of a sharp object? Ok, lol", ">\n\nFriendly reminder that high society \"proper\" dining etiquette was completely made up and to some degree ment or be unintuitive and had to be learned as the ruling class used it as one of many means to separate themselfes from peasants.", ">\n\nOr... Y'know... Whatever the person is most comfortable with? Didn't realize physical ability was up to opinion now...", ">\n\nI always believed you cut then swap hands so you don’t eat so fast. It’s like eating soup you slide the spoon to the back of the bowl instead shoveling it into your mouth.", ">\n\nStfu nerd i hold my fork and knife however i want", ">\n\nWhy would I swap my fork to my dominant hand? Just put the food in the mouth with the left dummy.", ">\n\nI can't cut good with my left hand so when I have a knife i put the fork in my left", ">\n\nCounterpoint, your knife should be in your left hand and your bigger knife should be in your right hand", ">\n\nI have always eaten this way. I thought it was normal. Right hand dominate, hold fork in right hand.", ">\n\na fork is a dumb tool, a knife is a smart tool. You need better fine motor skills to use a knife than you need for a fork. \nWatch young children try to cut their own meat. a 2 year old can use a fork no problem, but cutting meat requires a lot more fine motor control than they can muster even with their dominant hand at that age." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck are these comments? I swap utensils because my right hand has better dexterity for cutting while my left hand has better strength for gripping, but it sucks for lifting shit into my mouth. Why is this so hard for people to understand?", ">\n\nI think it's weird how people assert how to \"eat properly\" with cutlery, as long as food doesn't run off the place or fall out of your mouth.\nI prefer it the same way you do, but I stopped as I had a controlling parent that meant I should do it the right way, so now I'm not used to the way that felt natural to me anymore.\nAll in all, I think people should be allowed to eat using utensils however way they want, as long as previously mentioned conditions are met.", ">\n\nYou're going to not use your dominant hand on the manipulation of a sharp object? Ok, lol", ">\n\nFriendly reminder that high society \"proper\" dining etiquette was completely made up and to some degree ment or be unintuitive and had to be learned as the ruling class used it as one of many means to separate themselfes from peasants.", ">\n\nOr... Y'know... Whatever the person is most comfortable with? Didn't realize physical ability was up to opinion now...", ">\n\nI always believed you cut then swap hands so you don’t eat so fast. It’s like eating soup you slide the spoon to the back of the bowl instead shoveling it into your mouth.", ">\n\nStfu nerd i hold my fork and knife however i want", ">\n\nWhy would I swap my fork to my dominant hand? Just put the food in the mouth with the left dummy.", ">\n\nI can't cut good with my left hand so when I have a knife i put the fork in my left", ">\n\nCounterpoint, your knife should be in your left hand and your bigger knife should be in your right hand", ">\n\nI have always eaten this way. I thought it was normal. Right hand dominate, hold fork in right hand.", ">\n\na fork is a dumb tool, a knife is a smart tool. You need better fine motor skills to use a knife than you need for a fork. \nWatch young children try to cut their own meat. a 2 year old can use a fork no problem, but cutting meat requires a lot more fine motor control than they can muster even with their dominant hand at that age.", ">\n\nOr (now hear me out) I just stab my fork into whatever I'm eating and just take a giant ass bite out of it." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck are these comments? I swap utensils because my right hand has better dexterity for cutting while my left hand has better strength for gripping, but it sucks for lifting shit into my mouth. Why is this so hard for people to understand?", ">\n\nI think it's weird how people assert how to \"eat properly\" with cutlery, as long as food doesn't run off the place or fall out of your mouth.\nI prefer it the same way you do, but I stopped as I had a controlling parent that meant I should do it the right way, so now I'm not used to the way that felt natural to me anymore.\nAll in all, I think people should be allowed to eat using utensils however way they want, as long as previously mentioned conditions are met.", ">\n\nYou're going to not use your dominant hand on the manipulation of a sharp object? Ok, lol", ">\n\nFriendly reminder that high society \"proper\" dining etiquette was completely made up and to some degree ment or be unintuitive and had to be learned as the ruling class used it as one of many means to separate themselfes from peasants.", ">\n\nOr... Y'know... Whatever the person is most comfortable with? Didn't realize physical ability was up to opinion now...", ">\n\nI always believed you cut then swap hands so you don’t eat so fast. It’s like eating soup you slide the spoon to the back of the bowl instead shoveling it into your mouth.", ">\n\nStfu nerd i hold my fork and knife however i want", ">\n\nWhy would I swap my fork to my dominant hand? Just put the food in the mouth with the left dummy.", ">\n\nI can't cut good with my left hand so when I have a knife i put the fork in my left", ">\n\nCounterpoint, your knife should be in your left hand and your bigger knife should be in your right hand", ">\n\nI have always eaten this way. I thought it was normal. Right hand dominate, hold fork in right hand.", ">\n\na fork is a dumb tool, a knife is a smart tool. You need better fine motor skills to use a knife than you need for a fork. \nWatch young children try to cut their own meat. a 2 year old can use a fork no problem, but cutting meat requires a lot more fine motor control than they can muster even with their dominant hand at that age.", ">\n\nOr (now hear me out) I just stab my fork into whatever I'm eating and just take a giant ass bite out of it.", ">\n\nI can’t believe this is unpopular." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck are these comments? I swap utensils because my right hand has better dexterity for cutting while my left hand has better strength for gripping, but it sucks for lifting shit into my mouth. Why is this so hard for people to understand?", ">\n\nI think it's weird how people assert how to \"eat properly\" with cutlery, as long as food doesn't run off the place or fall out of your mouth.\nI prefer it the same way you do, but I stopped as I had a controlling parent that meant I should do it the right way, so now I'm not used to the way that felt natural to me anymore.\nAll in all, I think people should be allowed to eat using utensils however way they want, as long as previously mentioned conditions are met.", ">\n\nYou're going to not use your dominant hand on the manipulation of a sharp object? Ok, lol", ">\n\nFriendly reminder that high society \"proper\" dining etiquette was completely made up and to some degree ment or be unintuitive and had to be learned as the ruling class used it as one of many means to separate themselfes from peasants.", ">\n\nOr... Y'know... Whatever the person is most comfortable with? Didn't realize physical ability was up to opinion now...", ">\n\nI always believed you cut then swap hands so you don’t eat so fast. It’s like eating soup you slide the spoon to the back of the bowl instead shoveling it into your mouth.", ">\n\nStfu nerd i hold my fork and knife however i want", ">\n\nWhy would I swap my fork to my dominant hand? Just put the food in the mouth with the left dummy.", ">\n\nI can't cut good with my left hand so when I have a knife i put the fork in my left", ">\n\nCounterpoint, your knife should be in your left hand and your bigger knife should be in your right hand", ">\n\nI have always eaten this way. I thought it was normal. Right hand dominate, hold fork in right hand.", ">\n\na fork is a dumb tool, a knife is a smart tool. You need better fine motor skills to use a knife than you need for a fork. \nWatch young children try to cut their own meat. a 2 year old can use a fork no problem, but cutting meat requires a lot more fine motor control than they can muster even with their dominant hand at that age.", ">\n\nOr (now hear me out) I just stab my fork into whatever I'm eating and just take a giant ass bite out of it.", ">\n\nI can’t believe this is unpopular.", ">\n\nJust eat the food? I don't see how the order of your hands mean anything." ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck are these comments? I swap utensils because my right hand has better dexterity for cutting while my left hand has better strength for gripping, but it sucks for lifting shit into my mouth. Why is this so hard for people to understand?", ">\n\nI think it's weird how people assert how to \"eat properly\" with cutlery, as long as food doesn't run off the place or fall out of your mouth.\nI prefer it the same way you do, but I stopped as I had a controlling parent that meant I should do it the right way, so now I'm not used to the way that felt natural to me anymore.\nAll in all, I think people should be allowed to eat using utensils however way they want, as long as previously mentioned conditions are met.", ">\n\nYou're going to not use your dominant hand on the manipulation of a sharp object? Ok, lol", ">\n\nFriendly reminder that high society \"proper\" dining etiquette was completely made up and to some degree ment or be unintuitive and had to be learned as the ruling class used it as one of many means to separate themselfes from peasants.", ">\n\nOr... Y'know... Whatever the person is most comfortable with? Didn't realize physical ability was up to opinion now...", ">\n\nI always believed you cut then swap hands so you don’t eat so fast. It’s like eating soup you slide the spoon to the back of the bowl instead shoveling it into your mouth.", ">\n\nStfu nerd i hold my fork and knife however i want", ">\n\nWhy would I swap my fork to my dominant hand? Just put the food in the mouth with the left dummy.", ">\n\nI can't cut good with my left hand so when I have a knife i put the fork in my left", ">\n\nCounterpoint, your knife should be in your left hand and your bigger knife should be in your right hand", ">\n\nI have always eaten this way. I thought it was normal. Right hand dominate, hold fork in right hand.", ">\n\na fork is a dumb tool, a knife is a smart tool. You need better fine motor skills to use a knife than you need for a fork. \nWatch young children try to cut their own meat. a 2 year old can use a fork no problem, but cutting meat requires a lot more fine motor control than they can muster even with their dominant hand at that age.", ">\n\nOr (now hear me out) I just stab my fork into whatever I'm eating and just take a giant ass bite out of it.", ">\n\nI can’t believe this is unpopular.", ">\n\nJust eat the food? I don't see how the order of your hands mean anything.", ">\n\nI just cut all my food first then put the knife down and eat. I don't feel like cutting one piece, eating that piece, then cutting another and repeating the entire time. Just cut it all at once then forget the knife" ]

[ "I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem.", ">\n\nSame. I went to a seminar for young professionals where they taught us a bunch of stuff, including the \"continental\" style of using your fork and knife (i.e., using it in your left hand). It took no time to figure out, and I've been doing it that way ever since.\nI don't know if it's true, but during the seminar, they said that one of the ways the Russians used to catch American spies was that they swapped their knife and fork when eating. Now that I type that, it's probably a lie, but I'll go with it anyway.", ">\n\nReminds me of Inglorious bastsrds where the British guy gives himself away by using the \"western\" three-fingers up instead of using the \"german\" three-fingers up.", ">\n\nI find it fascinating that such small things could give someone away.", ">\n\nKnives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible.", ">\n\nThis initially sounds intuitive, yet somehow as a right-hander the one thing my left hand is very adept at is slicing steak.", ">\n\nI mean your hand will get used to doing what you often do", ">\n\n( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)", ">\n\nwhat do you do with your left hand anon?", ">\n\n( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)", ">\n\nYour knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right.", ">\n\nThis!! So much this! Why does it matter so much, and who made a “rule” saying it should be one way or the other? \nSuch a dumb thing IMO", ">\n\nIt's etiquette, it's less and less relevant but every restaurant will still put the knife on your right and fork on your left.", ">\n\nWhy do people have to swap hands and put their knife down?", ">\n\nIt's the barbarian way. Civilized people know that you don't put the knife down and you have no trouble using your left hand to get food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYou should have no problem using the knife in your left hand.", ">\n\nWhy would I want to put a cutting tool into my worse hand? The only thing my left hand is better at is peeling things for some reason. Knife stays in my right and I'm fully capable of shoving food into my mouth with my left.", ">\n\nIf you can manage to cut yourself while eating, you might be the barbarian you speak of lol. And the dexterity for the fork isn't to move the food from plate to mouth, it's to pick the food in the first place. Some foods are hard to pick up if you're not using your dominant hand, it just feels awkward.", ">\n\nThe knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law.", ">\n\nShit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one", ">\n\nI feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork.", ">\n\nI'm right handed and my left hand is not able to find my mouth. Cutting stuff is easy on the other hand. \nI would embarrass myself holding the fork in my left hand.", ">\n\nAbove your chin below your nose. I'm not saying you're stupid but have a hand to face talk with your left hand, there's issues that need to be resolved.", ">\n\nI've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it.", ">\n\nA lot? Really? \nI can't think of a single time anyone has commented on which hand I hold my utensils in", ">\n\nWhen you're at a restaurant with people in suits, and there are 4 forks, knives, and spoons lined up around your plate, people notice it a lot more.", ">\n\nI thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives", ">\n\nNope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same.", ">\n\nLefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left.", ">\n\nSame, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left.", ">\n\nWait... you guys switch hands to cut?", ">\n\nIve heard Americans do this… never heard it from people in other countries", ">\n\nIt's the norm in Colombia.", ">\n\nTo switch hands? \nIt sounds extremely complicated", ">\n\nYeah, but it's very simple. You hold the fork with your dominant hand, and when you're gonna cut something, you just take the fork with your non-dominant hand, the knife with the dominant, cut, eat, and then swap again (and put the knife down) if you're not going to keep cutting.\nIt does sound like a complicated process, but it's done almost automatically.", ">\n\nIts way to much work. Just eat with your left hand", ">\n\nNo thanks", ">\n\nMy dominant hand is my left. What now? Also why would you ever put your knife down to swap hands? Just keep the cutlery on the hands they start in. My knife is in my right hand and my fork in the left just like everybody else I know", ">\n\nLefty here- they gotta just let us have this one thing 😩 after years of scissors, getting marker on our hands, rifle shells flying at our eyes, baseball gloves and other sports equipment being dominant, we at least have one thing for us which is the fork and knife combo.", ">\n\nall these rules related to etiquette are so dumb", ">\n\nThis, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.", ">\n\nThis is the true unpopular opinion of this post", ">\n\nLeft handed here with 30+ years of experience, using the fork with my dominant hand, no problem for cutting with the other hand, I totally agree with you !", ">\n\nFellow lefty here. Just curious, if you’re using just a knife to, say, cut veggies or bread or something, like you’re preparing to cook… do you use the knife with your left or right hand?", ">\n\nAm also a lefty, when doing prep like chopping veggies, etc. I use my left hand. But when eating, knife is in right hand, fork in left.", ">\n\nWhy are people putting the knife down and swapping the fork back and forth between hands? That seems like such a faff and waste of time.\nFork in left hand knife in right hand, cut food, eat food and repeat until meal is finished, no need to put the knife or fork down unless you need to leave the table 🤷‍♂️", ">\n\nI thought I was going crazy. Are people really swapping hands? I've never seen that.", ">\n\nThey’re trying to say it’s an American thing? I’m an American and I’ve never done this nor have I seen it in my life..", ">\n\nSo even the who-cares crowd will still choose between fork left or fork right and stick with it. Why aren't the knife and fork allowed to switch place mid-meal? Is this some superstition thing? Does it open a portal to a hostile dimension?", ">\n\nIt's useful to build a habit of having the tool you put in your mouth consistently placed. Less chance of absent mindedly cutting your tongue.", ">\n\nlol, I can't imagine being THAT absent minded. Switching your knife and fork after cutting just happens on autopilot out of habit.", ">\n\nI mean I do left fork right knife as a leftie and it's pretty ideal", ">\n\nI've always been ridiculed at the dinner table for this. My reasoning was always that I have more control over the fork with the right because all the knife does is cut back and forth. Truthfully I have no idea why I do it.", ">\n\nme too - exactly the same experience and rationale !!", ">\n\nUm, eat like a European. Saves times. Keep both utensils in hand at all times and shovel food into your mouth.", ">\n\nYeah, the utensil swapping thing is definitely an American thing. iirc it had something to do with the more privileged class ages ago tacitly showing how they didn’t need to rush and had all the time in the world to swap their fork between hands.", ">\n\nCould you explain what the swapping entails? I’m Italian and I’m not sure I understand. Say a “swapper” is eating a steak - how do they go about it? I only know the “fork in left, knife in right, cut piece, utensils remain held in same hands, bring morsel to mouth with left hand, repeat”", ">\n\nI’ve got you covered. This lady shows the difference between the 2 styles at around 1:28. The swapping style was never meant to be efficient but rather to be as inefficient as possible, odd as that might sound.", ">\n\nThank you! I couldn’t believe that swapping the way I was understanding it from other comments entailed putting things down so often, so I was confused but - nope, that’s it, indeed! I can’t help but find it extremely odd that this has survived into modern times, huh", ">\n\nhonestly i prefer the knife in my right hand because my right hand is stronger and more coordinated. i just put the knife down and eat with my right.", ">\n\nI feel like as kids we were taught to use the knife with our dominant hand to have more control over it, and then we just kept doing it.", ">\n\nI like to tape my cutlery to my fingers and get some sense of what it must have been like to be Johnny Depp at his peak.", ">\n\nI was using them like do all the time. I don't think that's an unpopular opinion but a logical fact.", ">\n\nHaha you guys can argue about cutlery. I mainly eat with my hands.", ">\n\nYou put the dangerous one, the knife, in your dominant hand. Stabbing and holding the forking still is easy for either hand. Keeping the knife straight and moving back and forth is much more difficult for the non-dominant hand.\nAs a righty, I cut with the right hand, just like when using a kitchen knife.", ">\n\nI’m picturing a dinner party with prime rib. Picturing everyone trying to cut said meat with the non-dominant hand. Now picturing meat sliding and flying around the table because have you ever tried to cut prime rib with the wrong hand? This would never work because it would be far, far too messy.", ">\n\nYeah that's kind of what it boils down to, I can handle fork duty just fine with my left hand but left-handed knife work gets real sketchy real fast.", ">\n\nIf your left hand is incapable of delivery food into your mouth, you might want to see a doctor. \nKnife goes to your right/dominate hand because cutting requires more fine motor skills than just holding something still.", ">\n\nIf you’re having problems moving food from the plate to your mouth you may be putting yourself or others in serious danger by attempting to utilize a sharp cutting utensil with said non-dominant hand", ">\n\nWhy do you swap? Just keep your knife in right hand and use your left hand to hold the fork and eat", ">\n\nOnly Americans cut everything up and then eat with a fork. Europeans employ both hands and both utensils at the same time. This is the best way.", ">\n\nUm Americans do this too lol don’t know if I’ve met anyone over the age of 10 or under the age of 80 who has everything cut up before they eat it, and that’s just cause someone has cut it up for them. Im also an American who lived in France in my childhood and don’t pay attention to how others eat so I could be wrong", ">\n\nThe way you've described is the way most Americans eat.", ">\n\nWith all due respect, I believe you’re mistaken. \nThe “American” style is to hold the knife in the dominant hand, and use the fork in the non-dominant hand to hold the food in place while cutting. Then the knife is set on the edge of plate, and the fork is swapped to the dominant hand to eat the food.\nWith the “Continental” style, the knife is also held in the dominant hand for cutting, but after cutting you just continue to use your fork with the non-dominant hand to eat the food.\nI’ve been an American for a pretty long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone use their non-dominant hand for the knife. At least not anyone who I knew well enough to know if they were right or left-handed.", ">\n\nIf any movies or tv shows are to be believed, the American way is to cook everything in bite size pieces and just use a fork whilst picking around everything on your plate.", ">\n\nI'm not sure why Americans swap before eating. I think it'd be easier if you guys didn't swap", ">\n\nI've seen people swap while eating, cutting with the utensils in the proper hands, then putting down the knife and swapping the fork to their right hand to bring the food to their mouth, then swapping back and picking up the knife again. It's so weird.", ">\n\nor just raw dog it the american way and use your incredibly dominant right hand to cut your steak with your fork and huge hand muscles and determination.", ">\n\nKnife in your dominant hand, because its the tool doing the work.\nAnd why are you putting the knife down?\nWhat's with all this swapping?\nKeep your knife in your dominant hand, so you control the most dangerous utensil, don't put it down..\nYou only put cutlery down to drink, or when you finish your meal.", ">\n\nI was always told if your knife and fork are together, it means you’re finished. If they’re on opposite sides, it is not yet finished. I often put both utensils down opposing towards the end for assessing. Also the knife has a simple back and forth motion and then rests while the dominant hand does all of the work. It’s constantly in use. The knife is there for the hard bit and that’s it? By having the most dangerous utensil in your non dominant hand you’re signifying not threat. Like shaking with the left as a sign of lowering guard. Also its like starting a nail with your hammer in your non dominant hand? I will agree on the swapping tho, I’ve never seen it and I never hope to.", ">\n\nOR just eat with knife and fork, there is zero reason to put the knife down and switch hands for the fork, its incredibly easy", ">\n\nWasn’t this just posted?", ">\n\nYou do know its just a weird american thing to be swapping your utensils hands during the meal. In the UK we just use both hands and keep each utensil in one hand, no need for \"swapping\"\ndifference shown here", ">\n\nI actually do this, i don't know why - but it has always felt natural, + i'm...lucky (?) enough to have ambidexterity ( being able to use both left and right hand with the same precision )", ">\n\nDo you use your left hand to hold kitchen knives?", ">\n\nMy left hand is too dumb to cut anything other than mashed potatoes yo", ">\n\n“it doesnt require a great deal of dexterity”\ntell that to one bad steak I ate last time it was so chewy the meat is complaining in my mouth", ">\n\nLolol", ">\n\nI'm American and I cut one bite at a time, so I never swap/always keep knife in right hand. I put my index finger on the back of the fork and use it to push down on whatever I'm picking up.", ">\n\nI can’t remember when it happened but I switched to using my fork with my left hand (tines usually faced down) and knife with my right. When not using a knife, I use my right hand for my forking. Seems pretty easy to switch around. Don’t even know why this is an opinion, unpopular or not.", ">\n\nWhat the fuck are these comments? I swap utensils because my right hand has better dexterity for cutting while my left hand has better strength for gripping, but it sucks for lifting shit into my mouth. Why is this so hard for people to understand?", ">\n\nI think it's weird how people assert how to \"eat properly\" with cutlery, as long as food doesn't run off the place or fall out of your mouth.\nI prefer it the same way you do, but I stopped as I had a controlling parent that meant I should do it the right way, so now I'm not used to the way that felt natural to me anymore.\nAll in all, I think people should be allowed to eat using utensils however way they want, as long as previously mentioned conditions are met.", ">\n\nYou're going to not use your dominant hand on the manipulation of a sharp object? Ok, lol", ">\n\nFriendly reminder that high society \"proper\" dining etiquette was completely made up and to some degree ment or be unintuitive and had to be learned as the ruling class used it as one of many means to separate themselfes from peasants.", ">\n\nOr... Y'know... Whatever the person is most comfortable with? Didn't realize physical ability was up to opinion now...", ">\n\nI always believed you cut then swap hands so you don’t eat so fast. It’s like eating soup you slide the spoon to the back of the bowl instead shoveling it into your mouth.", ">\n\nStfu nerd i hold my fork and knife however i want", ">\n\nWhy would I swap my fork to my dominant hand? Just put the food in the mouth with the left dummy.", ">\n\nI can't cut good with my left hand so when I have a knife i put the fork in my left", ">\n\nCounterpoint, your knife should be in your left hand and your bigger knife should be in your right hand", ">\n\nI have always eaten this way. I thought it was normal. Right hand dominate, hold fork in right hand.", ">\n\na fork is a dumb tool, a knife is a smart tool. You need better fine motor skills to use a knife than you need for a fork. \nWatch young children try to cut their own meat. a 2 year old can use a fork no problem, but cutting meat requires a lot more fine motor control than they can muster even with their dominant hand at that age.", ">\n\nOr (now hear me out) I just stab my fork into whatever I'm eating and just take a giant ass bite out of it.", ">\n\nI can’t believe this is unpopular.", ">\n\nJust eat the food? I don't see how the order of your hands mean anything.", ">\n\nI just cut all my food first then put the knife down and eat. I don't feel like cutting one piece, eating that piece, then cutting another and repeating the entire time. Just cut it all at once then forget the knife", ">\n\nThe only reason I can think of that would possibly make you swap is because you aren’t using your fork facing down. Fork curve facing up is actually kind of annoying but face down you shouldn’t ever have to swap" ]