If you think about this for a second I'm sure you can figure it out. Do you want to have a sharp knife on a slippery surface where it might slip and cut you? Or should you use a surface that is not likely to end up with you chopping your fingers off?
The fork should be placed on the left side of the plate and the knife on the right side, with the blade facing towards the plate.
The dinner knife, or 'service knife,' in a semi-formal, or formal setting would be for the knife to be at the right of the dinner plate, with the blade facing the plate. If there is a butter plate and butter knife or 'spreader,' that knife should be on the butter plate to the left of the dinner plate, just above the cutlery on the left. The butter knife should be place with the handle facing to the right and the blade facing downwards. If there is an additional knife, such as a fish knife, etc., that knife should be to the right of the dinner knife, with the blade facing towards the dinner knife.
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After a meal, the fork and knife should be placed parallel to each other on the plate, with the fork on the left and the knife on the right, pointing towards the center of the plate.
The knife should be placed on the right side of the plate with the blade facing the plate, and the fork should be placed on the left side of the plate with the tines facing up.
* While eating the knife should rest on the upper right side of the plate. When you are finished eating put the knife and fork side by side in the middle of the plate.
The fork should be placed on the left side of the plate, and the knife should be placed on the right side of the plate in a formal dinner setting.
Place the plate in the freezer for an hour or two. When the wax is thoroughly chilled and brittle, it should scrape off easily.
The fork should be placed on the left side of the plate and the knife should be placed on the right side of the plate in a formal dinner table setting.
Yes.
Napkins can either be twisted neatly and placed in a fancy wine glass or water glass or, the napkin can be folded and laid to the right of the place with the knife on top.
TOO long, that is why you should use paper or re-use a glass plate