The proper order of things

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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My answer is:
Wouldn’t you be happier person if you didn’t let stuff like this get to you?

And:
Wouldn’t your wife be happier person if you didn’t let stuff like this get to you?

I started a project during covid where I’m paring down the number of things I care about… I’m afraid that “where things go in the kitchen” got jettisoned (except for my box of Strawberry Mini-Wheats… it’ll get lonely if it’s not next to my Grape-Nuts).

(ps: teaspoons, small forks, large forks, large spoons, knives)

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(pps: I often order my eggs “sunny side up”, especially on top of good corned beef hash… just for the aesthetics.

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There are few things as satisfying as reaching into the dishwasher, grabbing a large handful of knives, and transferring them en masse to the proper slot in the drawer.

Ah, but that would not be in the spirit of tongue-in-cheek, which is the sole purpose of this thread; a bit of levity in a disaster-plagued world and in a country being torn apart by power-hungry ogres.

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In general I agree w the idea “Don’t sweat the small stuff. And 95% of everything is small stuff.”

OTOH …

The drawer organizer has cutouts in the shape of the utensils. “Dump the spoons in the spoon-shaped compartment and know where to reach for them later” seems to me easier than “Dump all the flatware in an undifferentiated pile, and need to dig through the pile each time I want anything.”

I don’t especially care whether the forks are in front of or behind the knives. But if I’m wanting an e.g. knife, knowing where to look is net less work than digging aimlessly for the 10% of the stuff in there that’s the type I need. Doubly so if some of the stuff in there is sharp and I can’t just be rummaging blindly unless I’m OK with bleeding into the drawer.

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We had one of those when I was young. IIRC (and it was 50+ years ago, so probably not), from left to right it was knives, big spoons, small/tea spoons, big/dinner forks, small/salad forks. The knives were certainly to left, but if it was spoons then forks or vice versa I would not testify to nor bet the life of your last-born child on. Big before little I’m pretty confident about that.

The current household has four contains for tableware, and it is higgledy-piggledy - knives with forks, spoons of various sizes with knives and forks, lizards mating with ladles, etc. Drives me nuts, but SWMBO generally puts things away and she doesn’t care.

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Top to bottom, spoon, fork, knife.

I don’t mean “farthest from seat, nearest to seat.” I mean literal vertical stack.

Fight me

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Man, that’s just cuckoo talk.

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Forks, teaspoons, tablespoons, table knives. (Left to right.)

General miscellaneous far right if long, in the back compartment if short, or in a different drawer entrely. Most serving utensils in the different drawer.

Sharp knives in a knife block, or on a wall magnet.

So there.

There are such things as butter knives; but they’re not the same thing as table knives. Although I do use table knives for the butter, unless I’m being fancy (which is rare.) Being fancy is also the only time I use salad forks.

I suppose if I ate snails I’d have snail forks. I think I have eaten them at least once, but it was in a restaurant, which supplied the utensils.

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Knife, spoon, fork, octopus, TV.

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You’re both wrong, but you have the added distinction of getting it all almost exactly backwards. :wink: The correct order, as demonstrated in my household since practically forever, is (left to right):

Knives (steak and table), tablespoons, forks. Teaspoons are in a separate compartment at the front.

Correct this time – that’s more or less the general idea.

Amazing! You’ve got that backwards, too! My long miscellaneous compartment is at the far left. The short miscellaneous compartments are at the front.

Kitchen knives, yes, but that goes without saying.

I have spoken.

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Hmmm. I wonder whether we’ve actually got the same sort of organizing doohicky, just turned around the other way in the drawer.

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Both of my cutlery tray thingies are so old that I have no recollection where they came from. I did just notice, though, that the main one in the top drawer has the IKEA logo on it, so it must have been purchased from there sometime when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. It has two short compartments at the front, one of which I use for teaspoons, and one little square compartment for whatever. I don’t think it would work turned around as the rearmost crosswise compartment would be hard to reach.

The one in the other drawer is the type that someone mentioned, where some compartments like for spoons are shaped like the things they’re supposed to hold.

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For crying out loud, folks. I can’t take more of this. Here’s how it goes.

Compartment: the front

Left to right: teaspoons in two neat stacks. Handles to front.

Forks, same two neat stacks. Same handle order.

Serrated steak knives laid in lovingly. Pointy ends away.

Butter knives. (Or whatever they’re called.)

Next compartments in the rear.

Left: table spoons, handle toward me, and long-handled teaspoon, spoon end toward me

Next: salad forks pointy end pointing the other way. Little-tiny-three-pronged forks, pointy end to me.

Sharp steak knives in next compartment. (I think the other day those may have been swapped with serrated steak knives in the front. I’m awaiting word.)

Next, serving spoons and big, round stuff organized by size top to bottom in a stack and whether they have holes in them, like for ladling peaches.

Bonus points: Dishwasher

Bottom rack: Dishes in back, big to left, smaller to right. Bowls in front, big to left.

Top rack: glasses, cups, big tall glasses, big clear bowls.

This arrangement is subject to complicated rearrangement without proper notice.

This is all I know for certain for I have failed several times to pass my check ride on the dishwasher.

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That may be how they do it in Cincinnati, but that’s not how the civilized world does it!

Best regards,
Wolfpup
Representative, Civilized World

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Sounds like I will have to get one of these compartment things. I thought that you just threw stuff in ALL the drawers. Just different kinds of stuff in different drawers.

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How did those forks taste?

I keep the octopi in the mollusk drawer.

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Hubby and I both vote for fork, knife and spoon. When setting the table, the fork goes on the left, then the knife on the right, and then the spoon is set outside the knife.

How do you set the table?

Kitchen knives are in a different drawer, as are most cooking utensils, measuring spoons, etc.

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I don’t know what is this Cincinnati of which you speak.

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Knife, fork, bottle, cork

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Since we’re not woke elitist flatware snobs, I just pile it all on the napkin. The wife insists on putting all three utensils out for every meal (and arranging them), even if we’re just having soup, which makes about as much sense as having a hair brush for one of those nasty shivering little hairless dogs. Who was the idiot that thought those nasty little yappers were the ideal pet for anyone? Go big and hairy or stay home, says I, and no, I’m not a shill for the hairbrush industry.

And while we’re talking about napkins, mine stays on the table, not in my lap. It’s unsettling to see people rummaging around in their genital area while eating a meal. And the damn things keep sliding off onto the floor, where people promptly snatch them back up and continue wiping their faces with them.

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Your last memory test at the annual physical?