# Handedness and stirring direction

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/handedness-and-stirring-direction/558014>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 22, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/handedness-and-stirring-direction/558014 "2010-10-22T15:33:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/handedness-and-stirring-direction/558014/61 "2017-12-31T14:45:53Z")

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> [@Pehr\_Wag](#):
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> Seeing it from below would seem to be counter to the majority.

Do you have a cite for your hypothesis… yes or no?

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**Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/handedness-and-stirring-direction/558014/62 "2018-01-01T00:53:22Z")

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> [@Pehr\_Wag](#):
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> Forget zombies, if you were standing over a giant kettle of a witch’s brew, so thick you have to use two hands to mix in the snakes, which way for you? We won’t judge you on being a witch or not! Yet, at least. 😉

Cauldron with snakes with two handed stirring, most likely using a paddle? Most likely CCW as I’d be standing next to it. Seems that when I did concrete in a barrel, I stand with my left hip closest to the pot. Makes it easier to go with the direction I am facing.  
Just realized this is similar to stirring the booyah pot. There we mostly go back and forth with a CW move every now and then interspersed with a CCw to stop the whirlpool effect.

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**Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/handedness-and-stirring-direction/558014/63 "2018-01-02T15:47:52Z")

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I’m left-handed. If I stir something thick from the forearm, like chili or cement, it’s forehand (spoon sticks out of my fisted hand between thumb and forefinger like a tennis racket) and counter-clockwise. If it’s something thin and watery that doesn’t require any oomph I will sometimes hold the spoon like a pencil, and stir clockwise.

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