Why we use the fork on the lift hand and the knife on the right hand?

Question

any why we used to eat the rice with the fork not the Spoon??

Answer 1

Well, since most people are right-handed, and few are ambidextrous, it's common sense to put the knife on the right for better control when cutting your food, especially if the knife is sharp (which, in former times, it invariably was). Holding the fork in the left hand, upside down, provided stability so that the food didn't move while being cut. Most Europeans then put the food in their mouths with the left hand. Transferring the fork to the right hand was an innovation of the nouveau-riche in America, who wanted to be fancy, and it caught on with most of the rest of Americans who wanted to be a little classier.

Originally, forks had only two tines that were pretty far apart, making it difficult to eat small things like peas and rice. In the 18th century, wide-bladed knives were developed so that you could eat peas without having to transfer to yet another utensil. This may explain the rice question, too. It wasn't until the Victorians developed the five-course meal and separate flatware to go with each course that forks started to have four tines so that peas and other small items wouldn't fall through, and eating peas with your knife became crass. (As late as the 1940's, there was an animated short that depicted some characters [chicken rustlers, I think] as being so unsavory that they still ate peas with their knives and scratched their heads with their forks. I remember seeing it on television in the 1950's.)

This also explains the silverware layout you see in fancy restaurants. If you have several courses, the silverware for the first course is on the outside, and that for the last course is closest to the plate. That way, you don't accidentally have your silverware taken away between courses; only the utensils for the finished course are taken away with the dishes for that course.

Answer 2

because knives were around long before forks and people would et with a knife in their right hand. Even if you were left handed you would bput the knife in your right hand because witches were believed to be left handed.

The american thing of cutting everything up and then eating developed because if you were in a wagon going west there may not be enought knoves to go round so someone would cut the food up for a group who would then eat together.

spoons are for soup and pudding - so rice pudding you can eat with a spoon.

people who swap the knife and fork because they are left handed are actually being rather rude.

Answer 3

i'm precise surpassed, i take advantage of my left for the knife, the right for the fork. I kinda slide my foodstuff onto the fork it really is confronted down, by utilizing my knife and position it in my mouth nonetheless dealing with down. Or i'd swap as a lot as slice my meat with the fork in my left hand, knife in my precise. If i'm having rice or some thing similar, i take advantage of the fork interior the 'prevalent' vogue. The salad fork has shorter tines (spikes). once you're having shrimp, that fork is clearly the smallest.

Answer 4

I suspect that people use the knife in the right hand because most people are right-handed, and we want to have more control over the knife (because it's more dangerous).

As far as using a spoon to eat rice, you can do that if you want to.

Answer 5

I use knife with my left hand but as i cannot cut properly with left hand so i cut with right hand like 3 pieces for a bites, at a time then keep a knife aside and use fork to eat :)
and spoon...hmmm i cant and i dont eat rice with spoon,why? i dont know, its my habit.

Answer 6

The American tradition is to transfer the fork to the right hand to bring food to the mouth, so I assume you're in Europe.
These conventions are somewhat arbitrary but useful. Place settings can be standardized, and a meal can go much more smoothly than if everybody were doing his own thing. Of course this is much less obvious in this day of few formal dinners and many burger drive-throughs.

Answer 7

im right handed and i eat with fork in right hand and knife in left hand....but i dont really use my knife properly, i just use it to hold the food down whilst i pull it away with my fork!! and if i eat rice i use a spoon

Answer 8

Stupid rules that someone made up, so people wouldn't look like a bunch of apes at parties, celebrations, and during school lunches.
Note the school thing doesn't hold once at Uni, especially if far enough into an evening at pub.
Charles "That Cheeky Lad!"
P.S. Happy Christmas to all who celebrate!
And Peace and good will to everyone!

Answer 9

i odnt, i eat with my hands, it's not in my tradition to use fork and knife and anyway, u wouldnt knw hoe hot the food is using fork and knife. u knw if its right temperature if u use ur hands to stop u frm burning ur mouth/tongue.

Answer 10

Just use your hands - takes the decision out of them!!