Asklemmy

You guys organize your utensils?

(/s btw:-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 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.

Organize?

What’s this organize thing you speak of?

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.

I don't.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Knives, forks, table spoons and tea spoons separately, that's eating cutlery, cooking cutlery like bigger knives, ladles etc is bunched up in the biggest compartment

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

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.

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

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)

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

Little spoons, big spoons, forks, knives. And yes they are insane :p

I own one spfknife. No organization needed.

Everything in a cylinder

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.

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

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

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

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

Useing a dividing tray:

Chopsticks - Table Spoon - Tea Spoon - Butterknives - other

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.