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Come Inside... => The Restaurant => Topic started by: Snoopy on March 31, 2010, 04:09:17 PM
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Knives, forks, spoons should be enough but of course we have to over complicate matters with Fish Knives (actually forks as well but nobody in polite society would refer to the fishforks for some reason).
Dessert spoons, soup spoons, tea spoons, coffee spoons, egg spoons, salt spoons, mustard spoons, serving spoons, fruit spoons
Dessert Knives, fruit knives endless varieties of kitchen knives, butter knives, bread knives, carving knives.
Dessert forks, that bastion of the middle classes the Pastry fork and so it goes on and on.
The Yanks are even more anally retentive than the Brits when it comes to the use of cutlery with their nasty habit of using the knife and fork to cut everything up and then putting the knife aside and swopping hands to use the fork like some sort of shovel and heaven help you if you get it wrong!
Some years ago (about 40 years to be accurate) my then in-laws (from Sheffield) introduced me to a new (to me) concept of something they called a splayd which was a cross between a fork and a spoon. Used one handed they swore it meant one needed no other cutlery. It was something that Viners (well known Sheffield cutlery makers) had recently trialled or so they said.
Anywhoo what do the team think ~ is it time for a complete revolution of our eating etiquette? Do we want one handed eating at the table or are we simply reduced to grazing on the hoof and so have no need to worry about table manners any more?
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Spifes, knoons, splayds noooo:
I'm happy with the full table setting, moving methodically from outside to in cloud9:
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I ate lasagne tonight in front of the TV, plate in one hand, spoon in t'other. It was awkward trying to cut the crusty edges with the blunt edge of the spoon, would have been good to have had a sharp edge to it.
However, generally I like to sit at the table with knife and fork in the traditional way. Fork in the left hand of course, and knife in the right hand...(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postimage.org%2Ftemplates%2Fimages%2Fsmiley%2Ffood-and-drink%2F16.gif&hash=b82d2e1a63dfdf5e644446d7dbde1dd643903fc7) (http://www.postimage.org/)
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Blimey Snoops how big a kitchen do you have ? eeek:
I only have serving spoons , dessert spoons , teaspoons , knives and forks
That'll do for me
Anyone that comes to my house for dinner and suggests I have not used the right piece of cutlery is not someone I would be particularly interested in having round again evil:
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I only have serving spoons , desert spoons , teaspoons , knives and forks
All sterling silver I trust?
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I ate lasagne tonight in front of the TV, plate in one hand, spoon in t'other. It was awkward trying to cut the crusty edges with the blunt edge of the spoon, would have been good to have had a sharp edge to it.
However, generally I like to sit at the table with knife and fork in the traditional way. Fork in the left hand of course, and knife in the right hand...(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postimage.org%2Ftemplates%2Fimages%2Fsmiley%2Ffood-and-drink%2F16.gif&hash=b82d2e1a63dfdf5e644446d7dbde1dd643903fc7) (http://www.postimage.org/)
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I do that the other way round
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I ate lasagne tonight in front of the TV, plate in one hand, spoon in t'other. It was awkward trying to cut the crusty edges with the blunt edge of the spoon, would have been good to have had a sharp edge to it.
However, generally I like to sit at the table with knife and fork in the traditional way. Fork in the left hand of course, and knife in the right hand...(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postimage.org%2Ftemplates%2Fimages%2Fsmiley%2Ffood-and-drink%2F16.gif&hash=b82d2e1a63dfdf5e644446d7dbde1dd643903fc7) (http://www.postimage.org/)
I do that the other way round
Cack-handed, just like your quoting. whistle:
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Blimey Snoops how big a kitchen do you have ? eeek:
I only have serving spoons , dessert spoons , teaspoons , knives and forks
That'll do for me
Anyone that comes to my house for dinner and suggests I have not used the right piece of cutlery is not someone I would be particularly interested in having round again evil:
Kitchen is not big. It is sort of L shaped with a "galley" prep/cooking area and a breakfast bar ~ but we do have a dining room in which we have managed to seat 20 for a 5 course lunch (following baptism of smallest child) and 25 kids for a birthday party. The dining room has two tables (each capable of seating 6 in comfort, 8 in a cosy fashion or 10 if some are kids and everyone keeps their elbows tucked in), a dresser and a sideboard wherein lurk the crockery, cutlery and glassware for 24 full place settings. 4 dining chairs and two carvers surround the main table whilst the second table (a gate-leg) sits in a corner ~ spare dining chairs are dotted around the house. A third (pine) table for 8 is stored in the garage and mainly used in the garden when we have suitable weather (so not often used)
I note what you say about "anyone who comes to my house etc...... " but then you weren't previously in the catering business, nor do you have a large family to entertain.