Does the fork go on the right or left?

Answer 1

Hell I don't know . Just put all the silverware in the middle of the plate !

Answer 2

If you are talking about the dining room table then the forks go on the left. But if you are talking about you eating with the fork, then said fork is in the hand you use the most. Re: If you're right handed, then in your right hand. But on the table they go on the left.

Answer 3

You just place the fork where ever you darn well please. It's a table setting not a kidney transplanting !

If you use the fork in your left hand then place it on the left but it really makes no difference for you and your guests should be able to find the fork on the table somewhere !!!

Answer 4

Fork has 4 letters - so does the word left - it goes on the LEFT.
knife = 5, right = 5 = RIGHT
spoon = 5 = RIGHT

Answer 5

Dinner fork on the left, salad fork also on the left, outside the dinner fork, knife closest to the plate on the right, blade toward the plate, then dinner spoon, then soup spoon, if it is used.

Others described in the link below.

Answer 6

Forks always go on the left.

Answer 7

The fork goes left and the knife goes right. This is because most people (historically) are right-handed and therefore need the hand with the most control to handle the more "dangerous" piece of cutlery (i.e. the knife).

Answer 8

The Right!

Answer 9

It is a commonly believed myth that the table fork was introduced to West during the Middle Ages, as the Romans used forks for serving.

Before the fork was introduced, many Westerners were reliant on the spoon and knife as the only eating utensils. Thus, people would largely eat food with their hands, calling for a common spoon when required. Members of the aristocracy would sometimes be accustomed to manners considered more proper and hold two knives at meals and use them to both cut and transfer food to the mouth.

The fork was introduced in the Middle East before the year 1000. The earliest forks usually had only two tines, but those with numerous tines caught on quickly. The tines on these implements were straight, meaning the fork could only be used for spearing food and not for scooping it. The fork allowed meat to be easily held in place while being cut. The fork also allowed one to spike a piece of meat and shake off any undesired excess of sauce or liquid before consuming it. By the 11th century the table fork had made its way to Italy by way of the Byzantine Empire. In Italy it became quite popular by the 14th century, being commonly used for eating by merchant and upper classes by 1600. It was quite proper for a guest to arrive with their own fork and spoon enclosed in a box called a cadena; this usage was introduced to the French court with Catherine de' Medici's entourage. Long after the personal table fork had become commonplace in France, at the supper celebrating the marriage of the duc de Chartres to Louis XIV's natural daughter in 1692, the seating was described in the court memoirs of Saint-Simon:"King James having his Queen on his right hand and the King on his left, and each with their cadenas." In Perrault's contemporaneous fairy tale of La Belle au bois dormant (1697), each of the fairies invited for the christening is presented with a splendid cadena.

The fork's arrival in northern Europe was more difficult. Its use was first described in English by Thomas Coryat in a volume of writings on his Italian travels (1611), but for many years it was viewed as an unmanly Italian affectation. Some writers of the Roman Catholic Church expressly disapproved of its use, seeing it as "excessive delicacy": "God in his wisdom has provided man with natural forks — his fingers. Therefore it is an insult to Him to substitute artificial metallic forks for them when eating."[1][2] It was not until the 18th century that the fork became commonly used in Great Britain. It was around this time that the curved fork used today was developed in Germany. The standard four-tine design became current in the early nineteenth century.

The 20th century also saw the emergence of the 'spork', a utensil that is half fork and half spoon. With this new fork-spoon, only one piece of cutlery is needed when eating (so long as no knife is required). The back of the spork is shaped like a spoon and can scoop food while the front has a few tines like a fork to poke at food substance, making it convenient and easy to use.

Answer 10

In the US, it goes on the left. In certain formal settings there may be a fork in front of where your plate/bowl/etc. go.

Answer 11

The fork goes from your hand to your mouth.