I like having knives, forks, spoons left to right as that is how I say it “grab a knife and fork”.
I am staying in an Airbnb and they have the spoons separating the knives and forks and wonder if this is in insane or maybe I am the minority/insane one?
You guys organize your utensils?
(/s btw:-P)
It all goes into one pile. Steak knives, paring knives, forks, spoons, butter knives, etc.
Gotta make getting cutlery spicy.
Make sure bandaids are handy - in fact, better through them into the pile too:-P
Do people really put so much thought into it? I added a separator to my drawer and the cutlery got whatever slot they were randomly thrown into, so I’ve got forks, knives, spoons, more spoons, and teaspoons (I have a lot of spoons for some reason). I’m not attached to that layout and if it changed I wouldn’t really care.
I have a lot of spoons for some reason
Salad fingers?
Knives, forks, table spoons and tea spoons separately, that’s eating cutlery, cooking cutlery like bigger knives, ladles etc is bunched up in the biggest compartment
I have them arranged in the order the little plastic tray has for them. I’ve honestly never thought of the order of cutlery in my friends houses and find your level of obsession with it slightly eccentric, but in an endearing and humorous way.
I checked the dsm and cutlery drawer organization is not a criteria for sanity. Deep breath and enjoy your holiday.
Spoons > can opener > turnips > crimper > one teaspoon > mushy peas
I place them in the same order the table should be made (clockwise order): forks, spoons, knives.
Moving the spoons one step sounds reasonable I guess but I’d never switch places of the forks and the knives. If the order was knives, forks I’d have to switch hands to grab them and that thought bothers me more than I thought it would. TIL this is a pet peeve of mine
I bought a drawer organizer and then put the utensils in the slots they fit best in.
My psychopath ex-wife took out the separator and just dumped them all in at random. Only one of the reasons she’s my ex.
now I have anxiety because I know for a fact that if somebody switched to them I’d be annoyed but I have no idea what order they’re in so I have to go look
oh wait. I have a ADHD and I live alone so I don’t use a drawer organizer, I opened the drawer and remembered that all of my cutlery is just scattered randomly in there.
I have the arranged in the order I use them most. Spoons are on the left, then forks, then knives. I rarely need knives while eating, just for cooking.
Spoons, forks, knives. That’s the only correct order. Knives are on the right because you use them with your right hand, obviously.
Well, since I have a prefab divided organizer, I use what it came with: knives, forks, teaspoons, tablespoons, smaller forks. Now, in our case, we have table and salad forks, though the salad forks we have lack the dedicated “cutting” edge.
There’s also two other sections that aren’t shaped for specific utensils. One is on the left of the table knives, and is used for our steak knives and a couple of paring and utility knives. The other is smaller and is under the forks & spoons. That’s used for crap like corn cob holders and such that is rarely used.
Now, I’m used to that layout because we’ve had that organizer since I was a kid, so I wouldn’t change now. But, ideally, I would have the two types of forks next to each other, effectively swapping the teaspoons and salad forks in placement.
And that drawer doesn’t contain the “fancy” utensils like dedicated fish forks and such, we keep those in a bag in another drawer because the truth is that they’re never more useful than a regular fork for casual home dining. They serve a purpose when you’re having a fairly narrow range of dishes that you just aren’t going to fuck with often.
I’m with you, but more because I eat rice-based dishes and it’s good to have a spoon + fork combo for those.
