Other. Fork in right, knife in left, always. It’s much easier to eat that way.
I eat ‘cack-handed,’ I was always told - fork in my right hand, knife in my left, even though I’m right-handed. But I don’t put the knife down and switch. Before this board I had no idea anyone would do so.
kayT:
I wonder why it is that those who do not switch hands seem to insist that doing so is “barbaric” or “rude” or “bizarre”? I do see that it may be a bit less efficient, but as someone else mentioned if it were all about efficiency we would drink our soup and eat meat with our hands. I don’t see “switchers” making such judgements about “non-switchers” either. What’s barbaric about changing hands? I really don’t understand. I also don’t get why cutting a boiled potato with a fork is “wrong”. (And yes, I put the fork tines down to cut my steak, but when I am ready to eat, I turn it tines up. Don’t see why that’s “wrong”, either.) It just seems like this whole issue carries a lot of value judgements for those who eat one way about those who eat differently, and I am not at all clear why. None of the methods of eating described here seem rude or barbaric or animalistic to me, just different.
I agree that they’re just different methods, but actually at least two US posters who use the switching style called it barbaric to keep the knife in your hand.
JBGUSA
April 11, 2017, 12:44pm
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When I go to an Ethiopian restaurant I use the bread to scoop my food. No fork or knife.