How to use and hold cutlery

British etiquette coach and expert William Hanson provides a quick and speedy look at how to hold, use and position cutlery.
Cutlery provided by Arthur Price (Old English range - www.arthurprice.com) and plates by Royal Crown Derby (Effervesce pattern - royalcrownderby.co.uk).
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[@Luna.3.3.3]

Thank you for your videos. Some people think table manners are stuffy, which is ridiculous; I've taught my kids it's better to know them if you're ever in such a social situation. It's always better to know, then to feel out of place

[@7ajhubbell]

Your inclusion of some of the international variances is appreciated. Thank you.

[@tamarachilingaryan6689]

Dear Mr Hanson, This is very helpful. I watch these videos with great pleasure. It is lovely to know the etiquette, isn't it?

[@nielsnielsen9013]

Beautiful cutlery

[@hypereactivegbu1549]

Thank you for this video! I live in Asia and I’m curious about 1 thing concerning food etiquette. We typically consume rice and I was wondering if there is a particular way of eating rice American/Continental style? Do you still use fork and knife? In Asia, we mostly use chopsticks or a spoon.

[@naimahmed1834]

Thank you for uploading this type of video ☺️

[@fitzu.1206]

Grandma always taught us to hold the fork and the knife further back than on the video. Never close to the blade or the bridge.

[@WilliamHansonEtiquette]

Finger down the handle, stopping where the blade and the handle meet is correct.

[@daxcollazo3038]

Love these videos! Thanks William!👍😊

[@_JohnDoe]

Kindly show us how to eat baked beans. Should one turn the fork around in the hand and scoop the beans up?

[@richardgrant7055]

Perfectly done !

[@romitsinha1410]

Watching the most British thing ever

[@johncoleman7122]

Gorgeous silver.

[@ritchelmacapagal9097]

Thanks for sharing! God bless🙏❤

[@0li3]

Thank you for making a good video:)

[@zhiyai2440]

I really like your sound！♥️

[@fati17mr62]

I missed your videos . When will you give us another lesson.

[@nicolerubio8832]

Please do a video on table setting for afteroon tea. Thank you!

[@nnsistersvlog486]

It's an important content 👍🏻

[@goddessglow6996]

Thank you.

[@Milestonemonger]

This should be taught in schools and at home. When I waited tables during college in Hawaii, only a handful of people had basic table etiquette. It said so much about a person.

[@mimirose5dubin]

In culinary school we were taught to have the fork and spoon for dessert above, to be drawn down to the correct position after the table has been brushed for crumbs by your waiter. While I learned this from the service perspective, is there a time when this is appropriate?

[@WilliamHansonEtiquette]

Yes this till happens and in restaurants it's fine. In private houses, not so much. Cutlery above the setting is more European or American, not British.

[@tastyfoodwithanna]

So good

[@hailehoang92]

How about being left handed? Do i need to switch the cutleries in the beginning?

[@pallavichadha4705]

Good information

[@SaimaAzizVlogs]

Thanks sir

[@23rdjune]

I work at an inner-city secondary school in England. I would say that 99% of the kids who eat meals in the dining room have no idea how to hold and use a knife and fork correctly, probably because of a combination of the fact that at home they don't use cutlery/their parents have not been able to pass the skill on because they never used cutlery themselves/overuse of fast food eaten with the hands. The main bad-practice is holding the knife and fork in the wrong hands (they put the fork in the right hand and the knife in the left). Then there is not using a knife at all or using the knife (in the wrong hand) to cut something, then putting it down and transferring the fork to the right hand to eat the food that has been cut. Another is holding the knife like a pen. yet another is using the fork like a shovel, either away from them or towards them. It is very frustrating for me that nothing is done to correct this. Our school does well in grades and university places, but I do worry that when a lot of these kids have to go to functions and working lunch meetings at good restaurants how they will get on with their peers/bosses looking at them eating like they are in a cave! PS. I am 58, a caretaker, not a teacher, and am perhaps the only one left at the school who thinks good table manners and etiquette still matter.

[@Kwippy]

In the US you cut up the food with the knife in your right hand, then you put down the knife, transfer the fork to your right hand and use that to shove the food in your mouth.

[@taraconstruction5796]

Very good video In my hotel, some people still don't understand the difference between Fish Knives and B&B Knives

[@dr.catinstein4296]

Damn before I watched this I used my sister's ear to eat soup

[@Drirton]

Could you explain drinks, please? I noticed you had two on the table. Looks to be water and red wine? Why the two?

[@WilliamHansonEtiquette]

Because two drinks were being served, so two glasses! The glasses set depends on what is being served.

[@guybythedoor88]

Would you please address the British use of the side plate and its position?

[@WilliamHansonEtiquette]

Always to the left, and in line with the bottom edge of the table. UK tables generally straight tables not round ones. In US settings they go to the left but further up due to curvature of the table.

[@harshalpadole7021]

Legend has it that he is still replying to the comments

[@AhmedKhan-gv6nt]

I'm 22 years old I know everything But I'm watching this just because of Quarantine... Please Crona Go We are bored

[@susanobrien4380]

I'm going to try to get my sister and ape-in-law, I mean brother-in-law to watch this. I'm feeling horribly smug and pleased with myself on seeing your advice confirming my own behaviours but also annoyed that I am such a snob! :(

[@delivererx]

More people need to be watching this, imbibe culture and etiquette!

[@RosieVintage]

Why do you have to scoop the soup away from you?

[@WilliamHansonEtiquette]

All to do with the size of old fashioned soup spoons - but I will save that for one of my webinars or an in-person tutorial.

[@ibrahims754]

Manners Maketh Man!!!

[@jaynedecatte5995]

Try doing this when sitting on the sofa

[@anujprashantkerketta566]

it's 4 am why am I watching this

[@christopher3386]

Why have I eaten dinner at so many British homes and there are no napkins on the table???

[@murraydavis6839]

I eat with the fork on the right and knife and the left apparently that's weird I thought it was normal for years lol

[@beckysharper6509]

I understood the fish knife is held like a pen. Otherwise, the pen hold is an absolute no-no!

[@WilliamHansonEtiquette]

Nope - not held like a fish knife. I know some people, ahem, teach that - but it is infact wrong.

[@beckysharper6509]

@@WilliamHansonEtiquette glad to hear that as I was taught to hold correctly but read in some prestigious magazine the opposite. Thanks, you are fun.😉

[@Marcus51090]

Americans please take Note, I’ve seen you people eat, I thought I was on the Klingon home-world.

[@trustmemysonisadoctor8479]

Please note, using such statements to cover a diverse population is prejudice behavior that is used by many to justify unfounded beliefs or opinions.

[@zoiek528]

Oops! I've always scooped the soup to me from the upside and eaten the soup through the side of the spoon farthest to me.

[@carolgraczyk2027]

Hate it when people have poor table manners and hold things like they are still 3 years old and chew with mouths open like a mutant cow.

[@usmansabirrajpoot4986]

First of all the baddest thing is to eat with left hand and u r teaching them to do it wow fantastic 😏

[@WilliamHansonEtiquette]

Hello. Respectfully that is for dining in Muslim countries. Thank you for taking the time to comment.

[@prathmeshmakwana6555]

Come to India 🤣🇮🇳

[@fontunetheteller410]

I hold my knife like a pen and people think I’m more sophisticated when I do

[@billbraski]

I use a spoon and my left hand. Sorry not sorry.

[@simraahad]

You should give here the practical demonstration instead of this..

[@justfun_1983]

By the time you guys have finished watching this video nearly 600 people have been died around the world from hunger.