The American way of using fork and knife is inefficient and inelegant.
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#2The contrarian in me now says "Cut and then bring the bite to your mouth with your knife, the fork is now a stabilizing tool, also mock every European who doesn't".
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#4I'm American and I've never done cut-and-switch. Since I was a kid, I've always knifed with my left and forked with my right. Never understood why people feel the need to cut meat with their right hand. So weird to me.
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#5I'm left handed, never been an issue. I also never understood why table settings are the only thing where the world seems to appreciate my left-handedness.
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#6Better still, relegate the knife to food prep.
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#7It is more common in Europe to hold the fork in your left hand rather than your right. But I think that has more to do with handedness than anything.
I'm right-handed, yet hold the fork in my right hand and often get comments about being 'cack-handed'.
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#8I'm American and I've never done cut-and-switch. Since I was a kid, I've always knifed with my left and forked with my right. Never understood why people feel the need to cut meat with their right hand. So weird to me.
Presumably because cutting meat takes more strength and/or control than simply holding the meat still. It seem reasonable to relegate the latter to your non-dominant hand.
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#10Interesting. I used to hold the fork in my right the entire time, cutting with knife in my left hand.
Upon being informed that was a faux pas, I cut with the fork in my left, knife in right.
Finding it difficult to lift the food with my left hand, I intuitively adopted cut and switch and would eat with my right.
Noticing that no one around me (in Quebec) seemed to do this, I eventually adopted the European manner.
Now, following the Paleo diet, I frequently end up simply eating with my hands when at home. Feels great.
www.marksdailyapple.com/eat-with-your-hands/
I'm now either incredibly avant garde or a brute.