The knives, forks, and spoons used in Western food each have their own uses and cannot be substituted or mixed.

1. Knife

It is used to cut food. Do not use the knife to pick up food and bring it to your mouth. Remember: hold the knife in your right hand. If three knives of different sizes appear at the same time when dining, the generally correct usage is: the one with small serrations is used to cut meat; the medium-sized one is used to cut large vegetables into small pieces; A small knife with a rounded tip and an upturned top is used to cut the bread, and then use it to pick some jam and butter to spread on the bread.

2. Fork

Hold the fork in your left hand and lift the food to your mouth. The movement should be gentle. Pick up an appropriate amount of food and put it into your mouth at one time. Do not drag a large amount of food. Block, take a bite and then put it down, this is very indecent. When the fork picks up food and puts it into your mouth, your teeth only touch the food. Do not bite the fork, and do not let the knife and fork make any sound on the teeth or on the plate.

3. Spoon

In formal occasions, there are many kinds of spoons, small ones are used for coffee and desserts; flat ones are used for spreading butter and sharing cakes; compare The big one is used for soup or small food; the largest one is used for sharing soup and is commonly found in buffets. Make no mistake.

Usually, the utensils used to eat the main course are the largest. When the main course is a large piece of meat, some restaurants will give diners a table knife with a blade like a saw.

Salad serving utensils are slightly smaller than those used for tapas and desserts. Generally speaking, when eating salad, the table fork can also be used as a table knife. Therefore, some salad forks have a sharp edge like a table knife on the side. Some salad forks have a sharper blade on the outside than in the middle. Stout and strong. These are designed to make salad forks useful for chopping vegetables. It turns out that sometimes only salad forks are placed on the dining table, and the salad knife is omitted.

The fork used for eating fish has a sharp prong. Some fish forks have a notch on the outermost prong at the top, which makes the head of the fork pointed so that it is easier to pick up the fish. stab. The fish table knife is wider and thinner than other table knives, and the shape is a bit like the big knife in Chinese dramas. This is because the fish meat is looser, and a wide and thin table knife can easily keep the fish meat intact, especially when cutting the fish meat from the bone. .

The butter knife is the smallest table knife. Its head and handle are not on the same plane. This is to leave space between your hand and the table when spreading butter. Some butter knives have a small notch on the back, presumably to help cut out complete butter slices.

The seafood fork is the smallest fork. The prongs on both sides are slightly curved outward to make it easier to pick out the meat from the shells of shellfish.

A table spoon is only used when drinking coffee, tea, soup and eating sweets. Unless there are special circumstances, a table spoon is not used when eating salads and main dishes. The table spoon used for drinking soup is the largest, the tea spoon and coffee spoon are the smallest, the table spoon used for eating sweets is in the middle, and the table spoon used for stirring drinks in a glass has a slender handle. The heads of table spoons are almost always oval, with the only exception being soup spoons, which can also have an almost standard round head.