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At a formal western banquet, western tableware is usually placed like this. Usually a dish is replaced by a knife and fork, so the number of knives and forks is equal to the number of dishes. You can't use the same knife and fork or use them indiscriminately during the whole meal.
When eating western food for dinner, the knives and forks are mainly: a knife for cutting butter, a knife for cutting fish (the fish knife is on the right side of the knife and the harpoon is on the left side of the fork), a knife and fork for cutting meat (that is, a knife and fork for eating dessert, and a fork for eating salad.
They have different shapes and different positions, and mastering this will help you distinguish them correctly. Sometimes there are as many as three pairs of knives and forks on the left and right sides of the plate. If you don't take it wrong, the key is to remember to eat it from the outside to the inside, that is, the order of eating is appetizer fish.
The method of holding a knife and fork is simple. Generally, the right hand holds a knife and the left hand holds a fork. The use of knives and forks is mainly divided into English and American:
English: When eating, you always hold a knife in your right hand and a fork in your left hand, while cutting food and eating with a fork. People think this way is more gentlemanly and elegant.
Americans: When eating, they hold a knife in their right hand and a fork in their left hand, but Americans are used to cutting what they want to eat at one time, then putting the knife in their right hand in front of the plate, changing the fork in their left hand into the right hand, and then continuing to eat. This way is simpler than the British way.
1, remember to sink your elbows when cutting vegetables, and don't open your bow left and right;
Pay attention to the amount of food when cutting food. It should just fit the entrance. Don't fork and bite.
3. Use a fork when eating, not a knife;
4. Pay attention to the direction of the knife and fork. When you put down the knife, the blade will always be inward, not outward; When using a knife and fork with both hands at the same time, the fork teeth should face down, and when eating with the fork in the right hand, the fork teeth should face up;
If the knife and fork fall on the ground, don't pick it up and use it again. Please ask the waiter for a new pair.
6. You can't stick the food entrance with the fork of western tableware, but shovel the food into the mouth. When Americans eat meat, they sometimes cut it into pieces with a knife and then put it into their mouths with a fork. Europeans, on the other hand, usually eat while cutting, shovel it up and send it to their mouths. If you don't need a knife to eat a dish, you can also hold a fork in your right hand. For example, Italians eat noodles only with forks and do not need other western-style tableware, so it is simple and convenient to hold a fork with their right hand. If there are no large pieces of meat to cut, such as vegetarian dishes, just vegetables and non-staple foods that don't need to be cut, then it is reasonable to eat with a fork in your right hand.
7. Don't tell me what to do with a knife and fork in your hand. It is polite to put western-style tableware, knives and forks on the plate when talking or talking. When eating at the table, we should enjoy the delicious food, and of course, everyone should have a good talk. But don't talk about it with a knife and fork in your hand, don't stand it upright in your hand, and don't laugh or make a loud noise, which will make people feel scared. In fact, this dangerous move is indeed a threat to people and themselves.
8. Western tableware forks and spoons can be imported, but knives can't be put in the mouth, regardless of whether there is food on them. The knife entrance is also dangerous. ..
Western food etiquette knife and fork placement
First, the main course (dinner plate) is stacked on the soup plate and placed in the middle of the table, and the folded napkin (napkin) is placed on the main course.
Secondly, the knife spoon is placed on the right side of the food tray and the fork is placed on the left side of the food tray. The number of knives and forks is equal to the number of dishes, and they are arranged from outside to inside in the order of serving, so the knife and fork or spoon placed on the outermost side is used for appetizers, the knife and fork in the middle is used for eating fish, and the knife and fork closest to the dish plate is used for meat main course. However, sometimes there are different knives and forks on the left and right, and usually the number of forks is more than the number of knives, which means that the extra forks are used alone.
Next, at the top of the food plate is the dessert setting. Inside is a cake fork, which is used to eat cakes. The fork teeth face to the right and the fork handle faces to the left. Outside is a dessert spoon, which is used to eat ice cream. The spoon head faces left and the spoon handle faces right. Then, on the top left of the dining table is a bread plate and a butter knife. The butter knife is placed above the bread pan with the blade facing left and the handle facing right.
Furthermore, there are at least three kinds of glasses at the top right of the dining table. From left to right are water cups, red wine glasses and white wine glasses.
Finally, there may be butter plates, salt and pepper bottles and bread baskets above the dessert tableware.
The blades in the tableware are all placed inward, and the fork teeth and spoon cores are placed upward. The more advanced the restaurant, the more complete the arrangement of these tableware.
Knife and fork. Correctly handle
1. When eating with a knife and fork, take the knife and fork from outside to inside. Hold a fork in your left hand and a knife in your right.
2. Straighten the index finger and press the fork back; In addition to holding the knife in the same way as a fork, you can also hold the joint between the handle and the blade tightly with your thumb and forefinger. According to the different foods, choose a more delicious method.
3. Press the left end of the food with a fork, fix it, cut the food into bite sizes along the side of the fork with a knife, and then send it to the mouth with a fork. Be careful not to use force when pulling the knife backward, but to use force when pressing the knife forward, so as to cut the food neatly.
4. When using a knife, the blade should not be outward. When eating, put down the knife and fork, separate it from the left and right, and put it on the edge of the plate. The blade is pointed at yourself, indicating that you will continue to eat. After eating each dish, put the knife and fork together on the plate. If you are talking, you can hold the knife and fork. When you don't use a knife, you can also hold a fork in your right hand, but if you need to gesture, you should put down your knife and fork, never wave it in the air with your hands, never wipe your mouth with a napkin in one hand, and never hold a glass and fork in the other. Remember, never put one end of the knife and fork on the plate and the other end on the table.
When the small pieces of food on the plate gather together, they can be blocked with a knife and then scooped up with a fork.
6. If there is food with sauce, you can also scrape off the sauce with a knife, and then send the food and seasoning together with a spoon or sauce.
Placement of knives and forks
In the world, the western advanced banquet tables are basically unified.
* * * The same principle is: the center of the plate, the horizontal spoon in front of the plate, the left knife and the right knife and fork, the front inside and the back outside, the fork tip upward, the knife edge facing the plate, the staple food on the left, the tableware on the right, all kinds of tableware lined up, and the tableware matched with the dishes.
Desktop items: put the vase in the center of the table, put salt and pepper in front of the vase, put a toothpick before the salt and pepper, and put an ashtray in front of the toothpick. The gap in the ashtray is aimed at the middle of the salt and pepper, and the table mat is placed in the center of the table.
When placing, don't touch the disk surface and cup mouth with your hands, and use a tray to hold tableware, wine utensils and utensils. Gloves should be worn when placing gold and silver utensils to ensure that the tableware is clean and prevent pollution.
Tableware placing process and standard
Dinner plate (decorative plate) → knife and fork spoon → bread plate → wine glass. After the tableware is placed, napkin flowers are placed on the plate, vases, pepper bottles and salt bottles are placed in the middle of the table, as well as toothpicks, ashtrays and candlesticks.
1. Exhibition panels
You can use the tray end bracket or use your left hand to pad the mouth cloth. Put the mouth cloth on the bottom of the tray, hold up the display tray, and put the tray in front of the dining table clockwise with the right hand. The distance between the trays is 1.5cm from the edge of the dining table, and the distance between the trays should be equal.
2. Put the bread plate and butter plate on the surface.
Place a bread tray on the left side of the display tray 10 cm. The bread plate is aligned with the central axis of the display plate, and the butter plate is placed at the right front of the bread plate, with a distance of 1.5 cm, and the pattern is straight.
3. Place knives, forks and spoons. Place the knife, fork and spoon in turn from the right side of the display tray. When placing, you should hold the knife, fork and spoon handle, starting with the main knife.
(1) The main knife is placed on the right side of the display tray, perpendicular to the edge of the dining table. The handle is away from the table edge 1 cm, and the blade is on the left, away from the display tray 1 cm.
(2) The spacing between fish knives, fish head knives and soup spoons is 0.5cm, with the blade to the left and the spoon upward.
(3) The main fork is placed on the left side of the display tray, at a distance of 1cm from the display tray, and the fork handle is at a distance of 1cm from the table edge.
(4) When placing the harpoon, the handle of the harpoon is 5cm away from the table, and the fork head protrudes upwards. The fork face of the head fork (appetizing fork) is upward, and the fork handle is parallel to the main fork handle.
(5) Place the dessert fork in front of the dessert spoon, parallel to the spoon, with the spoon head to the left, at a distance of 1 cm from the fork handle of the dessert fork.
(6) The butter knife is placed obliquely on the bread plate, with the blade to the left, the center of the butter knife is consistent with the center line of the bread plate, and the handle is facing down to the right, one third of the bread plate.
Place wine containers
When placing wine, hold the cup holder or the bottom of the cup.
(1) The water cup is placed above the main knife, the center of the cup bottom is on the center line of the main knife, and the distance between the cup bottom and the tip of the main knife is 2 cm.
(2) The red wine glass is placed at the lower right of the water glass, the connecting line between the center of the cup bottom and the center of the cup bottom forms a 45-degree angle with the edge of the dining table, and the distance between the cup walls is 0.5 cm. ..
(3) The white wine glass is placed at the lower right of the red wine glass, and other standards are the same as above.
Step 5 place napkins
Put the folded napkin into the display tray. The folding pattern of napkins should be properly matched, and the viewing surface should face the guests.
6. Place candlesticks, pepper bottles and salt bottles. Generally, two candlesticks are placed at western-style banquets. The candlesticks are placed on the center line of the tablecloth and at appropriate positions on both sides of the dining table. Pepper and salt bottles should be placed symmetrically on the center line of the tablecloth according to the left salt and right pepper. The bottle walls are 0.5 cm apart and the bottom of the bottle is 2 cm away from the bottom of the candlestick.
7. Place ashtrays and matches. The ashtray should be placed in front of the main machine and the auxiliary machine, with its center on the vertical line of the center of the display panel of the main machine and the auxiliary machine, and 2 cm away from the pepper and salt bottle. Matches are placed on the top of the ashtray, with the picture facing up. When placing, start from the right side of the first owner and place an ashtray every other person.
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