# How do you cut your steaks? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 6, 2002, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cut-your-steaks/140905 "2002-12-06T13:26:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cut-your-steaks/140905/41 "2002-12-06T23:39:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DaToad \* > \*\*Well, I guess I have a hybrid style. It’s a cross between the euro and cosmo. I slice off a large piece and then cut and eat it bite by bite. \*\* Same here. I cut off a slice, as if it was bread, then cut that up into small pieces and eath those one at a time, keeping my fork in my left hand, cause it’s easier that way. ---
**Author:** ![typhoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@typhoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typhoon)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cut-your-steaks/140905/42 "2002-12-06T23:44:46Z")
Cosmopolitan style. Keeps the conversation and meal goin’. ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cut-your-steaks/140905/43 "2002-12-07T02:17:36Z")
European style, with A1 and a massive grin. [homer] mmmmm…steak [/homer] ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cut-your-steaks/140905/44 "2002-12-07T04:53:40Z")
European style. And with the ability to hold both knife and fork \*\* at the same time.\*\* Constantly swapping the fork from left to right is ridiculous - why do that? ---
**Author:** ![EyeballBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@EyeballBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EyeballBoy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cut-your-steaks/140905/45 "2002-12-07T04:54:28Z")
European style here, but then, I’m from Portugal. When I first saw my American wife (then girlfriend) eating, I think I gave her an odd look. After all, she was torturing the poor food into little bits and kept switching utensils like she was doing a juggling number. It was odd. I explained I used to that when I was a little kid. She threw a bread roll at my head. Americans are savages. ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cut-your-steaks/140905/46 "2002-12-07T06:20:10Z")
I like to use the fork to stabilize the knife, then stab my food and eat it off the end of the knife. Like a pirate! ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cut-your-steaks/140905/47 "2002-12-07T09:29:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Harmonix \* > \*_Am I the only one who cuts steak with a fork and spoon[/i_ umm yeah? Are you sure you’re eating a mammal? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cut-your-steaks/140905/48 "2002-12-07T10:30:00Z")
har har, but yes, I do eat steak with a fork and spoon. Watch a thai or philipino person eat. They all eat with a fork and spoon. you cut with a rocking motion with the spoon. It’s quite efficient really. I can even eat things like chicken breasts. Munipulating the skeleton so I can get all the meat off it without ever having to touch the thing and getting my hands dirty. better yet is for rice. you use the fork in your left hand to push the rice into the spoon on your right hand. Once you’re good at it you can eat quite quickly without ever spilling a single grain of rice. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cut-your-steaks/140905/49 "2002-12-08T04:46:18Z")
Euro style for me, and I go so far as to keep the fork in my left hand when putting it in my mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cut-your-steaks/140905/50 "2002-12-08T05:17:32Z")
It depends. If I’m eating alone, I generally go American style. This lets me read while I eat without ever having to put the book down. If I’m with others, I generally do what DaToad does. And I switch forks from left to cut to right to eat, because I’m right-handed and it feels weird trying to use a fork with the left. ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cut-your-steaks/140905/51 "2002-12-08T05:19:25Z")
I’ve been trying to switch over to European style, so that’s what I do in a self-conscious setting. I still get a little bit flustered because when I was 10 or so, my mom tried to teach me proper table manners, wherein I was to wield the knife in my left hand, and the fork in my right. I never caught on to it, and gave up on Table Manners until I was old enough to go to Nice Restaurants with my friends. When I’m home alone though, I either eat cosmopolitan style, or just stab the steak in the middle and gnaw on it. Mmm, New York strip with wortchestershire sounds sooooooo good! ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cut-your-steaks/140905/52 "2002-12-08T06:19:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EyeballBoy \* > \*\*European style here, but then, I’m from Portugal. When I first saw my American wife (then girlfriend) eating, I think I gave her an odd look. After all, she was torturing the poor food into little bits and kept switching utensils like she was doing a juggling number. It was odd. I explained I used to that when I was a little kid. She threw a bread roll at my head. Americans are savages. \*\* Watching other Americans eat sometimes makes me wonder where the hell they got the idea to juggle their silverware. :eek: It’s not that difficult to learn how to put a fork up to your mouth with your left hand. I’m nowhere near ambidextrous, but I can manipulate a fork with my left [nondominant] hand just fine. And yeah, I do put the knife down if it’s not being used… but with the way I eat, that’s not often unless I’m eating really slowly. I’m currently trying to teach myself to eat with chopsticks in my left hand. What can I say? I’m uselessly ambitious. She threw a bread roll at your head?!? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cut-your-steaks/140905.md?page=2)