How To Hold A Knife

[diddlydo]

Why is it becoming increasingly common for people to hold their knife like a pencil? How do they actually cut anything like that? Were they not taught any table manners?

[Mosaic]

May I ask why it matters?

[albaqwerty]

depends how you hold your pencil though surely?

[gingejbee]

It's nothing to do with manners - convention, perhaps.

[chrissa1]

A knife is held with your hand over the implement while a pencil is held with the majority of the hand Under it.

It matters.

[diddlydo]

Mosaic - in answer to your question "Because I find it offensive and uncouth".

[Mamyalynne]

ooooooooooooooooo

[2sp_]

Most people learn how to hold cutlery from their parents (not sure who else would show you...), so it's just a case of inheriting habits.

I hold my fork in my right hand at all times, knife in my left. You would be surprised how many people get their knickers in a knot about that. And I do hold them "correctly".

[Nibble]

It's the scooping of peas, etc onto your knife, then eating them from the knife I object to..... don't get me started on proper tools for the job.

[mccfluff]

Isn't that your problem then, rather than the knife holder :-)

as long as their mouth is closed while they are eating i don't care how they hold their knife - there are worse things to worry about

[Prudie]

I agree diddlydo, holding your knife like a pencil is a sign of being 'common', that's what I was taught anyway.

[jake-the-peg]

Why am I put in mind of Lilliputians fighting wars over which end of an egg should be opened?

[albaqwerty]

are you a leftie 2sp?
I'm a leftie but left hand for fork, right for knife. I hold my pen/pencil differently fromthe way I use my knife though.

[chrissa1]

I wouldn't go that far diddlydo but I was taught not to hold it like a pencil.

[Lie-in King]

I'm not allowed knives.

Or pencils.

[Barmaid]

Snob.

I believe the art of good breeding is not to sneer down one's nose at another's lack of finesse but to have the ability to completely ignore it as insignificant.

[Mamyalynne]

Stick with the spoon Maj - less convention involved...or are there??

[albaqwerty]

Nibble,
I eat my peas with honey
I've done so all my life
It makes the peas taste funny
But it keeps them on the knife

I can't hold a pencil the same way I hold a knife.

[aelmpvw]

:-)) at Lie-in King

[Jeza]

As a child being left handed was a real problem for me. The nuns gave me a lot of grief at lunch time, I was often kept in the dining room all afternoon, until you eat properly they said.

[Lie-in King]

Mamya - I'd love a stick with the spoon...