Western food knife and fork placement method and the meaning of the following:
1, if you want to continue to eat, knife and fork in a triangle. In this way, the waiter will not take away the cutlery.
2, if there is only one dish, there is no need to arrange in the shape of a cross, directly or vertically or horizontally parallel to the plate can be placed. If there is still food on the plate, you can also place the knife and fork parallel to the same side of the plate, the waiter saw, will also be the right time to take away the plate.
3, cut the food to pay attention to the size of the cut food, just the best inlet, if you cut too big can only be inserted with a fork to eat a bite, then why still use a knife it.
4, eating, the knife is used to cut food, can not use the knife like a fork to eat.
5, pay attention to the direction of the knife and fork, put down the knife, the knife is always inward, not outward; both hands at the same time when the use of knife and fork, fork tines should be facing down, the right hand fork eating fork tines face up.
6. If you accidentally drop your knife or fork on the floor, ask the waiter to replace it with a new one, or pick it up and wipe it clean.
The origin of knife and fork
The appearance of knife and fork is much later than chopsticks. According to Professor You Xiu Ling's research, the initial origin of the knife and fork and the ancient nomadic habits of Europe, they immediately live with a knife, often will be cooked meat, cut down to eat. Later to the settled life, Europe to animal husbandry, bread and so on is a side dish, directly with the hand. The staple food is beef and mutton, cut meat with a knife, sent into the mouth.
To the urban settlement, the knife and fork into the family kitchen, do not have to carry. It is not difficult to see that today as the main Western tableware knife and chopsticks identity is very different, it is multi-functional, can be used to slaughter, dissect, cut the meat of cattle and sheep, to the cooked food, but also as a cutlery.