How to hold a knife:
The forefinger should be pressed on the back of the handle. The most correct posture of holding a knife at a banquet is "Hold the handle with your hand, press your thumb on the side of the handle, and press your index finger on the back of the handle." Some people will put their index finger on the back of the knife, which is not correct. Except for dishes that can only be cut off by clenching the roots, or the knife is too blunt, the index finger can't reach the back of the knife. Some people, especially women, will straighten their little fingers and hold a knife. Perhaps the parties think that this posture is elegant, but it is actually wrong.
Second, the basic posture of eating western food is to hold a knife in your right hand and a fork in your left hand. At this time, the back side of the fork should face up. Except meat, try not to eat other dishes with a fork, so that the posture will be beautiful.
Most people only use forks when eating salad. At this time, you can hold the fork in your right hand, with the inner side facing upwards, and it is not necessary to particularly face the back side upwards. In short, you can hold it with a convenient hand. If "the fork must be in the left hand" is the golden rule, it will be hard to eat a meal.
"I still want to eat, but the waiter took the plate away!" Many people have had this experience. In fact, it's not that the waiter is bad, but that the diners want to stop and rest for a while and put the knife and fork on the plate, but because of the wrong arrangement of the knife and fork, the waiter will take the things away.
When eating western food, the arrangement of knives and forks is the expression of the parties' will. Then, when you want to have a rest or take bread during the meal, how should you put your knife and fork?
It should be that the knife is placed on the right side of the plate and the fork is on the left side, both of which are splayed. However, it doesn't need to be an absolutely straight figure of eight, as long as the front ends of the knives and forks collide on the plate, or the front ends of the two straddle the edge of the plate, and the figure of eight is far from each other. It should be noted that the tip of the knife can't slide off the edge of the disc, and the back end of the handle can't touch the desktop.
Another thing to note is that the fork back must be placed upward. Because, no matter how to hold the fork when eating, putting the fork on the inside is a sign that the meal is finished. At the same time, it is also one of the etiquette that the tip of the knife faces inward.
When you leave the table temporarily, if you want to return to your place to continue eating, put the knife and fork in a figure of eight, so that even if there are only a few dishes left in the plate, the waiter will never take the plate away and leave the table with peace of mind.