How to place the cutlery after eating
It is necessary to have some notions about protocol in the table to know how we should act in formal events or when we go out to eat out. Just as it is necessary to maintain good manners at the table, it is important to know how we should leave the cutlery once we finish our meal. Therefore, we explain how to place the cutlery after eating.
Pause
In case we have not finished eating yet, we want to make a small break in our food without removing the plate from the table, it will be necessary to place the cutlery on the plate. The concrete form is the fork face up on the left and the knife on the right with the saw or edge in, without touching each other.
Next dish
Once we have finished a plate and we want the next one to be served, it will be necessary to leave the cutlery crossed on the plate. The knife should be placed transversely on the plate, with the fixed down, and the fork perpendicular on this.
Excellent
If at the end of the meal we want to express that a dish has enchanted us, we should place the cutlery transversely on the plate. The fork upside down in the first place and the knife with the blade also upwards will be the way to remove the plate knowing that it has been excellent.
You do not like me
Otherwise, if you have not liked what you have eaten, you must cross the cutlery on your plate, putting the knife with the edge towards the inside of the plate and below the fork.
Finished
Once you have finished all your food, you will have several options to place the cutlery and tell the waiter that you can remove the plate. In this way, always putting the fork to the left of the knife and with the knife saw facing the center of the plate, it is possible:
- Put the fork and knife vertically on the plate, side by side.
- Cross the cutlery diagonally, from the right edge of the plate towards the center.
- Cross the cutlery diagonally, from the left edge of the plate towards the center.
