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?

  • @diodorus@lemmy.world
    6•1 year ago

    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

  • Sabata11792
    3•1 year ago

    I got half my spoons, forks, and knifes in a separator. Everything else goes into the overflow/non conforming heap.

  • southsamurai
    3•1 year ago

    Well, since I have a prefab divided organizer, I use what it came with: knives, forks, teaspoons, tablespoons, smaller forks. Now, in our case, we have table and salad forks, though the salad forks we have lack the dedicated “cutting” edge.

    There’s also two other sections that aren’t shaped for specific utensils. One is on the left of the table knives, and is used for our steak knives and a couple of paring and utility knives. The other is smaller and is under the forks & spoons. That’s used for crap like corn cob holders and such that is rarely used.

    Now, I’m used to that layout because we’ve had that organizer since I was a kid, so I wouldn’t change now. But, ideally, I would have the two types of forks next to each other, effectively swapping the teaspoons and salad forks in placement.

    And that drawer doesn’t contain the “fancy” utensils like dedicated fish forks and such, we keep those in a bag in another drawer because the truth is that they’re never more useful than a regular fork for casual home dining. They serve a purpose when you’re having a fairly narrow range of dishes that you just aren’t going to fuck with often.

  • Drusas
    3•1 year ago

    I am the exact opposite of you, mainly because my utensil organizer has the largest compartments on the right, so that’s where butter knives and chopsticks go. Also forks are in the middle because I use them less frequently than spoons.

    Edit: apparently I can’t remember left from right.

      • @DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Knife+Fork makes sense if you’re eating thigns like pork-shops, chicken, or other large peices of meat.
        Since I don’t eat meat, I don’t really use knives or forks; Chopsticks and spoons are my workhorses.

        • @Rincewindnz@lemmy.worldOP
          2•1 year ago

          I love hearing about “other” (from the perspective of my own growing up) ways of eating food. We have chopsticks and use them infrequently so they are in the “everything else” drawer.

  • @nixcamic@lemmy.world
    2•1 year ago

    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.

  • manmikey
    2•1 year ago

    I’m with you OP, left to right ~ Knives ~ Forks ~ Spoons~ plus the tea spoons go in their own auxiliary area.

  • @SwearingRobin@lemmy.world
    2•1 year ago

    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.