Which way do you prefer to cut your food?

renz20003

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Knife in dominant hand and switch the fork back after you cut

Or

Knife in non dominant hand with fork always in dominant hand?

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Also do you cut the food all at once or bite by bite?
 
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IronWing

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I have teeth; knives are for infants, geezers, and people with poor oral hygiene.
 

Carson Dyle

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Knife in dominant hand and switch the fork back after you cut

Or

Knife in non dominant hand with fork always in dominant hand?


Mom & Dad taught us the first (and no elbows on the table, etc.) You're missing probably the most used of all, and what I use now more than the other:

Knife in dominant hand with fork always in non-dominant hand.
 
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Ns1

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knife in dominant hand, fork in other, don't switch.
 

allisolm

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Fork in dominant hand always, knife in non-dominant hand always, but I am a lefty.

Cut food bite by bite.
 

Carson Dyle

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Also cut the food all at once or bite by bite?

And...

Do you eat all the mashed potatoes or vegetables at once, or rotate meat, potatoes, vegetable?

Most important of all: Do you allow the food on your plate to touch?

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renz20003

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And...

Do you eat all the mashed potatoes or vegetables at once, or rotate meat, potatoes, vegetable?

Most important of all: Do you allow the food on your plate to touch?

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I like eating a bit at a time..I make fun of my friends that eat all their fries before the burger or vice versa. So on and so forth.

I do not care if food touches
 

Thebobo

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I've been using a Splayd works very well and don't need all that other silverware.

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Red Squirrel

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Fork stays in dominant hand and knife in non dominant hand. It seems it would feel awkward to do it the other way. Which is odd, because for any other type of cutting, ex: a wood saw, I use my dominant hand.

I tend to cut a good portion of my food but not all of it, so I'm kinda in the middle as far as that goes I guess? Like I might cut about half, then cut the rest once I get there.
 

IronWing

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And...

Do you eat all the mashed potatoes or vegetables at once, or rotate meat, potatoes, vegetable?

Most important of all: Do you allow the food on your plate to touch?

THE-ACCOUNTANT-3.jpg
I allow the syrup to touch the bacon, in fact I intentionally dip the bacon in the syrup. My wife can't stand that.

I hate it when any food juice touches the bread.

I tend to eat foods one at a time.
 
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mindless1

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Depends. Is the knife blade thick enough that you can stab someone in the leg or are you going to need to use your fork for that? I keep the dominant tool in my dominant hand. Unless the person is sitting on the other side of me.

I cut more meat ahead of time if it needs to cool down to eat it comfortably. Otherwise no or else it gets too cold.
 

Mayne

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ugh the whole thought of using my weak hand to feed my mouth the whole time. its fucking retarded..so now I have to switch again for some potatoes and peas
 

Darwin333

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I've been using a Splayd works very well and don't need all that other silverware.

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Holy crap, I can shovel food into my mouth with both hands while still being able to cut my steak without setting down a utensil???
 
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Dominant hand always keeps the knife in hand just in case I need to get stabby in protecting said food from vermin mucking about.
 

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Fork stays in dominant (left) hand which is for precise work the knife stays in the non dominant hand which is for strength stuff.
I don't understand righties who shoot guns in their right hands. Guns are rough stuff so you do that with your nondominant hand.
Fret work on a guitar is precision work so you do that with your dominant hand.
Although I do work hand saws with my dominant hand so now I'm just confused about myself.
 
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bigboxes

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Knife in dominant hand and switch the fork back after you cut. I was raised civilized, don't you know!