Keep the plug is needed in your left hand, and the knife is right. This rule is familiar to each of us from the earliest childhood. Someone literally from the diaper absorbs all the rules of behavior at the table, and someone needs to be re-learn to all the wisdom of etiquette in adulthood.
In order not to get into the embarrassing situation during the dinner, you should know the basic rules of etiquette and to understand exactly what a table subject for what dish is intended.
A little about the rules of etiquette
To use conventional dining devices at home is one thing, but in a cafe or restaurant - quite another. In the home atmosphere we relax and do not always remember how and what to do in the etiquette. But on dinner at a visit or restaurant, no one wants to be in an awkward situation. Therefore, it is worth remembering the elementary rules of behavior at the table, so as not to get to be accepted.
There are general rules that read about what table item must be kept in the right, and what in the left hand:
- If the knife is in the right hand, the plug must be in the left. In this case, she more acts as a helper, since the main thing in this party is a knife.
- Keep the cutlery so that the teeth are always directed down, the end of the cutlery handle should be restarted into your palm.
- As for the knife, it should be kept correctly. The index finger of the right hand should be positioned in such a way that it can be easily pressed on the blade of the table of the table. The end of the knife should also rest in the palm.
- You can not keep tableware objects in your hand as if you keep the pencil. It is also not necessary to take them too close to the bottom.
- Usually, with the help of these two canteens, meat dishes eat. If you properly keep the table objects in your hands, you can easily cut down small pieces of meat.
Sometimes, not enough knowledge about what hand and how the cutlery should be located.
You still need to know the elementary rules on how correctly there are subsidements:
- A small piece, for example, the meat needs to be properly pounded on the teeth. An index finger of the left hand should be tightly pressing the handle of the table appliance, slightly pressed. Then gently send food into your mouth.
- It is impossible to share the entire steak immediately on small pieces and continue with a fork in his right hand. Each time you cut off the portion piece.
- I cut off a small piece of meat, set aside the cutlery, carefully putting them with the tips on the edge of the plates while they are burning.
- If theater, cabbage, omelet or casserole filed you, then in this case you can use one fork and keep it in your right hand. Tilt the fork so that her edge can be broken down a piece of dishes. Then hear it and enjoy food.
- Using a knife during the supply of such a dish, like stuffeds is also allowed.
- During eating a meat dish with a side dish, the option is performed that the fork can replace the tablespoon. For example, if mashed potatoes from potatoes or rice were submitted as a side dish. It is worth remembering to take a job garnish on the plug, her teeth should look up. Small particles of dishes, mashed potatoes and other side dishes, various salads need to be taking up the stress movements from themselves.
- Do not dial a lot of side dish or salad on the plug, otherwise you can get into the unpleasant situation. Food may not resist the teeth and fall into the plate. Either to eat all this will have to open the mouth wide and indecent.
- Sophisticated sandwiches should be not hands, but with a knife and forks.
- Salad can be fascinated without using a knife. It is allowed to pump large pieces.
- If during the meal you decided to take a pause and, for example, go to dance, then the devices should be folded on the platter crosswise so that the waiter realize that the dish should not be taken.
- Fruits, such as an apple or banana, should be used with a knife and forks.
- Meat cuts, large pieces of meat, meat rolls and sausages should be used in the same rules as the main meat dish. Gently take a meat piece and put it on my plate, and then, cut off on a small portion, you can safely taste.
- After the end of the meal, the cutlery you used, you need to put directly on the plate in parallel to each other. It is strictly prohibited after use to put them directly on the table or napkin.
Features and varieties
In order to feel confident during the dinner, you need to know not only how you should keep a plug, a knife or spoon, but also to know what one or another table apparatus is intended.
After all, in addition to the usual plug, which we used to use at home, there are many other types of it.
There are fish, meat, dessert forks, etc. Each of them differs from another number of teeth, as well as the size:
- Cutlery with four teeth - This is a fork called the dining room. It is widely used for the use of second dishes. In particular, various kinds of meat, steaks, cabbage rolls, casserole, omelettes, etc., to know it easily, as it should always fit the diameter of the plate. This object of the table appliance during serving is to lay the teeth up next to the main plate.
- A little less size, but also with four teeth - it is Snacking . As a rule, it is used for cold and hot snacks. It should be located on the left side of the fish.
- Fish - This fork with four teeth. But its form can be the most diverse: rounded edges, deepening between the teeth, etc. The form of this table appliance directly depends on which fish will be served on the table. This device must be the left of the dining force.
- By the way, fork, intended for herring Differs from ordinary fish. Her difference is that it has only two teeth. And the device for, for example, the sprat has four, and sometimes five teeth, the endings of which are connected by a single jumper.
For seafood there are its own table objects that are easy to distinguish both in shape and by the number of teeth:
- For shrimp there is a device with two teeth, which is characterized by its length.
- For cold cocktails and snacks from various kinds of seafood, a device with three teeth is designed, one of which should be longer and sharper.
- For lobster, a device with small curved teeth is intended.
All cutlery designed for seafood are located in the order in which dishes will serve.
- Dessert - It is intended for fruit pies, cakes and other tasty and sweet baking. It has only three teeth. It is placed right above the plate, the teeth should be directed to the right.
- Fruit or salad - This cutlery is equipped with only two teeth. As a rule, a fruit knife should be in a pair together with such a fork.
About how to keep the plug and use other cutlery, see the next video.