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?
I’m working with , left to right, big fork, little fork, little spoon, big spoon, butter knives, then perpendicular above them are a clutter of baby sized versions, and above that reusable straws
Silverware caddy, forks go in the fork shape. :)
I’m taking this as obviously the correct answer if the fancy silverware manufacturer recommends that order.
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.
Probably not, I was curious. It’s a pretty petty thing to be annoyed about.
The internet is full of people that may like to share some idiosyncrasies for the entertainment. These things are unique and at the end of the day is truly unimportant.
Except I’m right and that person that has no divider at all is possibly on watch lists.
Organize?
What’s this organize thing you speak of?
I take it that thinking about organising my utensil drawer means I have too much free time? But hey I like to think about things.
Actually it’s a joke, and a reference to a movie (although I do forget which movie).
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.
Spoons > can opener > turnips > crimper > one teaspoon > mushy peas
I switch the knives spoons and forks without telling anyone just to spice life up a bit
In my parents’ house similar to what you said, knifes and forks adjacent and spoons to one side (I don’t remember the exact order). When I moved in with my now husband he said it made more sense to him to have spoons in the middle and I didn’t care that much about it, so we have it like that. I have to say though, I do see an advantage to having the fork, spoon, knife order: when grabbing several pairs (fork and knife) it’s easy to just take each with one with different hands and count them out. And it’s easier once you have knives on the right hand and forks on the left to set a big table with one on each side of the plate.
I own one spfknife. No organization needed.
I’m with you OP, left to right ~ Knives ~ Forks ~ Spoons~ plus the tea spoons go in their own auxiliary area.
Everything in a cylinder
For a meal with a soup as a starter you’d set the table like this:
Fork, plate, knife, spoon
Now take away the plate and you have the, for ne most logical way of putting cutlery into the drawer.
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.
I just throw regular eating cutlery in one drawer, sharp knives in another, and cooking utensils like spatulas and whatnot in another.
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
