how important is it to use a fork and knife during meals?

Answer 1

I don't feel very comfortable with fork and knife.
I can use it when I like to play(NO NO Not that kind of PLAY) while eating or the food is easy to eat with it.
Like boneless chicken, I can use a fork for it and if you say a chicken with bones, sorry i'll use my hands.
Food is for enjoying. So eat the way you feel comfortable. Why you work so hard If you can't enjoy the meal.
I'll eat the same way no matter where I am. I would not like to be in a place where i'm uncomfortable while eating.
If i'm at a place where you say must eat with fork and knife.....and I use fingers .....and if somebody stares and feels bad about my way of eating.....Then helloooooooo what about his or her habit of staring at others when they are eating? Is it a good manner to look at people while they are eating?
What people say or will say ...HUH. I never care.
Be the natural you.

What do you want to say about eating a Dosa with knife and a fork.....................?LOL

Answer 2

With globalisation meals are being globalised so you should be prepared and carry the tools of the trade. I have a separate briefcase for meals which has various forks spoons, chopsticks, sauces, lotions, etc. So no matter what the meal it can be consumed in accordance with the dishes origin. So if you want to be a world citizen get yourself a briefcase soon and a manual on how to use the various cutlery. Bon Appetit.

Answer 3

Hi !
While eating, you shold take care that nothing wrong is going in your body by your hands. But it is not necessary to use fork and knife while dinning. Just be sure that you have washed your hands before eating. That is the only thing. Using knife and fork nothing but the rules made by man.

Answer 4

very important because it shows that you are not a child and have proper table manners. you should always use a fork- even for french fries unless you are at a fastfood or very relaxed style restaurant.
of course, you have to use your hands for stuff like hamburgers and hotdogs and fried chicken
always cut your food as you eat each bite, then lay your knife across the front of your plate when not using it.
it just looks really gross to see grown people picking at their food with their fingers.

Answer 5

It depends on what you're eating, and whether you're eating at a high-falutin’ luncheon party or just chowin' down with friends and family.

Where I live, we always eat at a table that is fully set, with fork, knife, spoon, napkin, water glasses, beverage glasses, placemat, spices, salt, pepper...but that's because I live with affluent and stuffy people and many of my meals are cooked for me. If it were up to me, I’d eat wherever cause I'm a skinny pig. :) LOL!

Answer 6

Hands are considered our most precious organ of action. Our hands and feet are said to be the conduits of the five elements--space, air, fire, water and earth. One of the five elements courses through each finger. Through the thumb, angushtha, comes space; through the forefinger, tarjani, air; through the midfinger, madhyama, fire; through the ring finger, anamika, water and through the little finger, kanishtha, earth.

In Vedic tradition, we eat with our hands because the five elements within them begin to transform food and make it digestible even before it reaches the mouth. This transformation also heightens the senses so that we can smell, taste and feel the texture of the foods we are eating. We can also hear the sounds of eating. All of these sensations are a necessary prelude to beckoning agni, the fire of digestion, to ready itself for the meal to come.

On the greater dimension, the act of eating is spiritual feasting. We are activating the energies of the Deities aligned with the elements, stimulating a surge of heightened consciousness within. This is made possible through the powerful play of mudra. It brings the elements of nature through our hands and fingers into the food, and then joins it with agni. If we are aware of awakening the fire within ourselves, we digest not only the food but also our thoughts more smoothly. The fire of digestion and the fire of the mind, tejas, work hand-in-hand. As you see below, there are six specific mudras for eating.

Ayurveda tells us that disease takes rise in the body because the digestive fire is awry and the mind is agitated. Most people today eat and run, juggling an overly full calendar. We often skip breakfast, eat a less-than-nutritious lunch, and that too in a hurry, and sit down to dinner late at night, after which we immediately fall into bed. How could proper digestion occur when we force the system to put up with such abuse year after year? In this frantic pace of living, how could we maintain composure in the mind and therefore remember the sacred purpose of these limbs? No wonder then that we have such a high incidence of cancer and heart disease, and ailments resulting from improper diet. We refuse to observe the integrity of our physiology by nourishing our bodies and souls with dignity and respect. Using the time-honored ways of sadhana can help us to restore health and harmony in our everyday lives.

Eating food with your hands feeds body, mind and spirit. According to the Taittiriya Upanishad, food represents the coarsest and last of the five vestures in which the soul is clothed and passes from body to body in the long process of metempsychosis. In other words, food is not limited to what we eat, but expresses the universe's entire body and all that is manifested within her. Likewise, we eat food not only to sustain the body, but to assimilate the universe's elements and energies within our physical and emotional body and to nourish the greater, spiritual Self. The Taittiriya Upanishad tells us: "The essence of all things here is the Earth. The essence of Earth is water. The essence of water is the plant. The essence of the plant is a person."

Answer 7

Importance varies depending on where you are. If you are at a classy restaurant you might want to use them.

Answer 8

Very important, especially if you don't care about hand hygiene. With Indian food in Indian style, I use my hands.

Answer 9

It depends were you are like if you are at a pizza place than no but if your at a real restaurant then Yes you look more proper.

Answer 10

Depends what you're having, fastfood is usually eaten without, so are ribs, chicken wings... stews and such can be eaten with a spoon....