How do you organise your cutlery drawer?

Rincewindnz@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 55 points –

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?

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You guys organize your utensils?

(/s btw:-P)

It all goes into one pile. Steak knives, paring knives, forks, spoons, butter knives, etc.

Gotta make getting cutlery spicy.

Make sure bandaids are handy - in fact, better through them into the pile too:-P

I bought a drawer organizer and then put the utensils in the slots they fit best in.

Silverware caddy, forks go in the fork shape. :)

I'm taking this as obviously the correct answer if the fancy silverware manufacturer recommends that order.

I checked the dsm and cutlery drawer organization is not a criteria for sanity. Deep breath and enjoy your holiday.

they have the spoons separating the knives and forks

That's complete anarchy; I hope you corrected it!

You grab a knife, knife and fork, a fork, a fork and spoon or a just spoon, you never grab a knife and spoon.

I'm glad someone else is outraged as I was, enough to make a shit post about it on the internet anyway.

Wouldn't it be more ergonomic to have some space between commonly-paired utensils when grabbing them?

I'm working with , left to right, big fork, little fork, little spoon, big spoon, butter knives, then perpendicular above them are a clutter of baby sized versions, and above that reusable straws

I'm with you OP, left to right ~ Knives ~ Forks ~ Spoons~ plus the tea spoons go in their own auxiliary area.

Do people really put so much thought into it? I added a separator to my drawer and the cutlery got whatever slot they were randomly thrown into, so I've got forks, knives, spoons, more spoons, and teaspoons (I have a lot of spoons for some reason). I'm not attached to that layout and if it changed I wouldn't really care.

Probably not, I was curious. It's a pretty petty thing to be annoyed about.

The internet is full of people that may like to share some idiosyncrasies for the entertainment. These things are unique and at the end of the day is truly unimportant.

Except I'm right and that person that has no divider at all is possibly on watch lists.

I have a lot of spoons for some reason

Salad fingers?

Organize?

What’s this organize thing you speak of?

I take it that thinking about organising my utensil drawer means I have too much free time? But hey I like to think about things.

Actually it's a joke, and a reference to a movie (although I do forget which movie).

I place them in the same order the table should be made (clockwise order): forks, spoons, knives.

Moving the spoons one step sounds reasonable I guess but I'd never switch places of the forks and the knives. If the order was knives, forks I'd have to switch hands to grab them and that thought bothers me more than I thought it would. TIL this is a pet peeve of mine

My psychopath ex-wife took out the separator and just dumped them all in at random. Only one of the reasons she’s my ex.

Bonus points, you just use the utensil you pull out. Buttering bread and get a spoon, doable. Go for a soup spoon and end up with a fork, hard mode activated.

I am the exact opposite of you, mainly because my utensil organizer has the largest compartments on the right, so that's where butter knives and chopsticks go. Also forks are in the middle because I use them less frequently than spoons.

Edit: apparently I can't remember left from right.

For a meal with a soup as a starter you'd set the table like this:

Fork, plate, knife, spoon

Now take away the plate and you have the, for ne most logical way of putting cutlery into the drawer.

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.

In my parents' house similar to what you said, knifes and forks adjacent and spoons to one side (I don't remember the exact order). When I moved in with my now husband he said it made more sense to him to have spoons in the middle and I didn't care that much about it, so we have it like that. I have to say though, I do see an advantage to having the fork, spoon, knife order: when grabbing several pairs (fork and knife) it's easy to just take each with one with different hands and count them out. And it's easier once you have knives on the right hand and forks on the left to set a big table with one on each side of the plate.

I have them arranged in the order the little plastic tray has for them. I've honestly never thought of the order of cutlery in my friends houses and find your level of obsession with it slightly eccentric, but in an endearing and humorous way.

I got half my spoons, forks, and knifes in a separator. Everything else goes into the overflow/non conforming heap.

We have it the same as you. I never really gave it any thought.

I think these things are a matter of personal preference but only really strikes me when I go to get something out when I'm not at home. (At home you can only open the drawer halfway to grab something.)

This was one of the earliest discussions I had when I moved in with my partner. She had the utensils spoon - fork - knife and I had knife-fork-spoon. (She won btw)

Where did you land on the dishwasher debate, utensils up or down in the cutlery basket? Our friends went with one of those top tray dishwashers to avoid that debate.

Up, since I fill the dishwasher πŸ˜…. I have been trying to convince her to get a top tray dishwasher, but for now I've not won the battle. Personally I prefer the convenience of not accedentially having a utensil outside the basket and messing with the rotor.

I find with my partner debates are a huge amount of compromise like your cutlery drawer. For example I wanted two kids, she wanted four, we compromised and had four.

I switch the knives spoons and forks without telling anyone just to spice life up a bit

Spoons > can opener > turnips > crimper > one teaspoon > mushy peas

Your knife goes on the right on your place setting next to your spoon. Your fork goes on the left. If you want to set a place settling with all 3, it's easiest to put spoons in the middle.

This is an interesting take, I don't often have several course meals and maybe the intricacies of proper dining are not going to be passed on to future generations. Peon status affirmed.

Cup on the counter with forks spoons and chopsticks. There are a couple steak knives in a drawer.

I just throw regular eating cutlery in one drawer, sharp knives in another, and cooking utensils like spatulas and whatnot in another.

Spoons, forks, knives. That's the only correct order. Knives are on the right because you use them with your right hand, obviously.

My knives stay in the wood block thing they came in on the counter and spoons forks chopsticks straws and soup spoons go in dividers in a drawer

I have the arranged in the order I use them most. Spoons are on the left, then forks, then knives. I rarely need knives while eating, just for cooking.

Useing a dividing tray:

Chopsticks - Table Spoon - Tea Spoon - Butterknives - other

At least here the knives and forks are paired.

Knife+Fork makes sense if you're eating thigns like pork-shops, chicken, or other large peices of meat.
Since I don't eat meat, I don't really use knives or forks; Chopsticks and spoons are my workhorses.

I love hearing about "other" (from the perspective of my own growing up) ways of eating food. We have chopsticks and use them infrequently so they are in the "everything else" drawer.

I'm with you, but more because I eat rice-based dishes and it's good to have a spoon + fork combo for those.