I like having knives, forks, spoons left to right as that is how I say it “grab a knife and fork”.

I am staying in an Airbnb and they have the spoons separating the knives and forks and wonder if this is in insane or maybe I am the minority/insane one?

  • southsamurai
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    311 months ago

    Well, since I have a prefab divided organizer, I use what it came with: knives, forks, teaspoons, tablespoons, smaller forks. Now, in our case, we have table and salad forks, though the salad forks we have lack the dedicated “cutting” edge.

    There’s also two other sections that aren’t shaped for specific utensils. One is on the left of the table knives, and is used for our steak knives and a couple of paring and utility knives. The other is smaller and is under the forks & spoons. That’s used for crap like corn cob holders and such that is rarely used.

    Now, I’m used to that layout because we’ve had that organizer since I was a kid, so I wouldn’t change now. But, ideally, I would have the two types of forks next to each other, effectively swapping the teaspoons and salad forks in placement.

    And that drawer doesn’t contain the “fancy” utensils like dedicated fish forks and such, we keep those in a bag in another drawer because the truth is that they’re never more useful than a regular fork for casual home dining. They serve a purpose when you’re having a fairly narrow range of dishes that you just aren’t going to fuck with often.