While emptying the dishwasher I was thinking that maybe our cutlery drawer has been out of order all this time.
Left to right we have:
Knives Forks Spoons
But now I'm thinking it should be:
Forks Knives Spoons
What is the order of your cutlery drawer?
not if you have OCD
The Forums seems to have taken a nosedive recently. Really scraping the barrel with this one!
Your poll just gave me seizures…. where do I send my Dr's bill?
Anyway, since I'm boycotting your poll on principle - Forks Knives Spoons, because in using them, and when setting the table, it's "Forks, Knives, Spoon." How could it be otherwise? You Philistine….
Edit: Who're the two people who voted "Knives Forks Spoons"? Explain yourselves.
if it really mattered I would go most used on the left and least used to the right.. like reading and writing…. left to right and from top to bottom.
so it would actually go forks-spoon-knives.
forks-spoon-knives.
you're a monster…
What sort of spoons are you using? I though you worked outside to in with cutlery when eating.
So L-R should be fork plate, desert spoon, knife, soup spoon. Sometimes, soup spoon goes across the top of the plate, but it would be hard to get them out of the back of the drawer.
I though you worked outside to in with cutlery when eating.
You do, but the dessert spoon usually isn't set at the start of the meal (ime?). So it's usually: Forks plate knives soup spoon.
I suppose it depends on your culture/upbringing etc. we always had spoons set at the start - assuming there actually was dessert. Rarely had soup.
@Euphemistic: I like the mentality - remind you there's dessert so you're more likely to eat the rest of the meal haha.
It's also missing the option 'Empty Draw' for uncivilized people like me who use hands.
what about chopsticks
soup spoons
coffee spoons
dessert forks
butter knives
steak knives
first drawer has all sharp items kids cant reach yet
second is packed with most of the above stuff
third has plastics that the kids can reach.
fourth has baking
fifth has some tea towels
if that's all you have in your drawer… then you have a problem
what about chopsticks
Then it'd be:
Chopsticks, chopsticks, chopsticks, spoon.
Daily use chopsticks, medium chopsticks for hot pot, large cooking chopsticks, ladles.
I have utensils in a long section, knives, forks, dessert spoons, then soup spoons.
Teaspoons at the bottom.
Gezus….
Forks and knives weren't invented then. Actually I don't think they had utensils at all. Maybe a cooking stick?
i thinks you should rotate them on a daily basis
Just like we do our Prime Ministers.
ohashi at the front, spoons, forks and knives, mystery items i discover annually
I know people who permanently leave utensils in the dishwasher… used the drawer for something else
Monsters!!!
That is what we do, unless we have guests coming over than we tidy up properly..
My cutlery drawer has horizontal divides… knives are at the front, teaspoons at the back. You need to add some poll options
Not to troll and list another possible combination… But for real
Forks, spoons, knives
Probably what forks, spoons, forks was supposed to be.
Correct. Damn!
Well, we could be appetiser forks, salad fork, mains fork, desert fork.
It's all forks. But then again… Butler.
I had one job and forked it up. Can't change poll as it has a vote.
We don't keep them in a drawer, they stand up in a container on the side. Same with chopsticks. All other kitchen utensils are in a drawer.
I've gone for the sixth option.
Forks, Spoons, Forks.
I keep the knives elsewhere.
Cutlery segregation!
knives at 90 degrees to the remainder
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Cat on top of the other stuff
What about the fish knives and fish forks
No idea how we ended up with it, but: knife, fork, spoons in the drawer. Maybe because when you say it too quick L-R for fork, knife you end up with a forken knife.
First world problem :-)
They talk about Knives and Forks, people, why would you order them the other way around :). In our case it is Knives, Forks, Dessert Spoons, Tea spoons then a whole bunch of random small utensils around the outside, including baby whisks, small fruit knives, Chop Sticks, measuring spoons etc. Then I have my other utensil draw that has the serious cookery stuff like the big whisks, tongs, mixing spoons, spatulas, soup ladle etc, etc. (There are a lot of etc in there).
When you are designing a kitchen make sure there are a lot of places to store stuff; then add in a few more of them.
I am enraged by this thread.
However they fit best
which ever is empty first the next cutlery piece which ever is next goes in
I have both soup, and dessert spoons in the same section just head-to-toe.
You are me.
I've got splades head to toe with my forks . This thread is making me wonder if they should really be in with the spoons?
What a forkin ridiculous poll.
i use my hands
Does anyone else have roving, unclassifiable pieces, such as stray spoons or remnants of previous cutlery sets which sometimes go with one group of spoons and sometimes with others, depending on who puts them away?
Is entropy an order? If so then it's that.
The majority of people are righthanded.
The majority of meals require no more than a knife, a fork and maybe a spoon.
So then for the majority of people, the fork is placed to the leftside, the knife to the furthest rightside, with the optional spoon to the left of the knife. The mind boggles then as to any sensible rational that would cause these items being stored in anything other than the same order in the drawer as they are placed on the table.
Clearly not Asian!
I have
Knives then Spoons/forks then icecream scoop.
Need an option for splades or sporks for the hethens.
I have (L-R) knives, forks, tablespoons, and teaspoons are horizontally below all three.
Have grown up with it that way.. couldn't change it now, would just feel wrong…
I honestly had no idea so after taking a look in the drawer the order is steak knives, forks, knives, tablespoons, soup spoons, teaspoons.
Forks Spoons Knives Chopsticks
Mine goes
Knives, forks, spoons, teaspoons, soup spoons, (up top) chopsticks/steak knives
I eat left handed so this order sort of makes sense for me
Forks will always be on the left as there's 2 ways to eat food
Fork left hand, spoon right hand
Fork left hand, knife right hand
If you do anything else then get out of my face
Or at the very least no one will have their spoon or knife in their left hand, so there's no reason to have these in the left.
Surely there is a PHD in this if it hasn’t been done?
I don't have a drawer organiser so it's just cutlery chaos in there!
Edit: if anyone knows any good deals on drawer organisers let me know!
Forks spoons knives.
Btw it's not listed above.
Shouldnt this be the most make sense order? If u arrange this on the table it would be in this order.
But we have big and smaller forks
I am lucky enough to have the exciting job of making it up each time we use every piece of cutlery in the draw. My flatmate and I play a game to see who can go without washing up the longest. He always wins! I wish I knew his secret.
hahaha I am one 1 of 2 with
Knives, Spoons, Forks
Spoons, forks, butter knives, and then steak knives.. and in the section under that are my teaspoons :)
Spoons forks knives, knives being closest to the fridge , cooking prep area
Should be - forks, knives, spoons - how a table is set. And also alphabetical.
OzBargain already did it.
Too much time on hand?