The basic principle of holding a knife fork is to hold a knife or spoon in your right hand, hold the fork in your left hand, gently hold the tail end with your hand, and press your index finger on the handle. Pay special attention here. You can also hold a fork in your right hand and a knife or spoon in your left hand. In addition, when eating with a knife and fork, you should use a fork to fix the left side of the food, then cut the food into a small mouth with a knife, and then dip the fork in seasoning and send it to your mouth.

The number of cutlery knives and forks should be equal to the number of dishes, and they should be arranged from outside to inside in the order of serving. When eating, they should be arranged from outside to middle in order, followed by appetizers, fish and meat. All forks and spoons will be placed upward, and all blade parts will be placed inward. Put them in parallel and obliquely on the plate after eating in order.

Extended data

In the set meal of formal western cuisine, knives and forks with different shapes are often used according to the characteristics of different cuisines, and not all of them are put out at the beginning.

Nowadays, the mainstream is to order 2-3 single dishes. Therefore, the formal dining decorations filled with silverware on the dining table may only be seen at the wedding banquet. The use of a set of knives and forks is becoming less and less, and more and more people eat only 2-3 appetizers, and the knives and forks do not change with them. Most of them eat the appetizers with a set of knives and forks.

And the number of restaurants with knives and forks on the knife and fork and placed on the right side of the plate is increasing. The shape of the knife used in meat cooking is basically the same in any restaurant, but the knife used in fish cooking is often different from restaurant to restaurant.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Western Etiquette