In Western cuisine, the placement of knives and forks are as follows:

A. Fork placement rules

Forks are actually divided into many of them, one of the forks is called a salad fork, which is mainly used to eat salad, so it is generally placed on the left side of the dinner plate, about one inch of the place. The fork for the main meal is mainly used for cutting steak, and it will be placed about an inch to the left of the salad fork. There will also be a third fork, which is mainly used for eating fish, and it will be placed one inch to the left of the dinner fork. So if you put three forks on the table, usually the middle one is used to eat the main meal, this is something you need to pay attention to.

Second, the knife placement rules

The knife is also divided into many kinds of, if the main dish is meat, generally in the dinner plate on the right side of the dinner plate will be put on the knife, this knife can be used to cut the steak or pork chops, in the dinner next to the knife will be placed in the place of about one inch of the knife a cut fish knife, with the fork is supporting. The fish knife is different from the fork if there is a fish dish, because the fish is more tender and the meat has more stems that are not as easy to cut. In addition, there is a small knife in the back of the fish knife, this knife is actually a butter knife, looks like there is no blade, mainly used to spread butter on top of the bread.

Three, spoon placement rules

General spoon placement is relatively simple, the spoon will generally be placed on the right side of the dinner plate, next to the cutlery, and the types of spoons will be a little less, one is a soup spoon, one is a dessert spoon. Soup spoon is generally larger, but the dessert spoon will appear slightly smaller.

Fourth, the use of knife and fork

In fact, the human habit is to hold the knife in the right hand, because it will be more convenient to cut the meat, then the knife will generally be placed on the right, the fork will be placed on the left. If a dish is finished, you can merge the knife and fork together, and then the knife and fork counterclockwise, the blade and the fork's sharp point in their own direction, and then point the knife and fork to the direction of four to ten, the waiter will come to clean up the plate.