A dinner knife is the one you cut your steak with and the dinner fork is used to pick up food and lift it to your mouth.
You put your knife and fork side by side across 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.
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.
In some social gatherings or in high end restaurants the butter knife goes to the right and then the regular knife. On the left outer side the small salad fork and then the regular fork for eating your dinner. Remember: Work from the outside in towards your plate.
The knives are always on the right of the plate, blade in, the forks on the left.
Because the Knife was created before the Fork.
Fork and knife
Left. While this is correct, it's counter -intuitive , as most people are right-handed. This persists as an affectation of superior social graces, and feel this out-moded custom is overdue for retirement.
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.
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Cross your knife and fork on the center of your dinner plate to signal you are finished with that course.
In a most basic setting, on the left, between the napkin and the plate would ordinarily be the fork. In a broader setting, still referred to as a 'basic' setting, there may be a salad fork to the left of the luncheon fork or dinner fork. So, as a simple setting to visualise from right to left would be: Spoon, Knife (with blade facing the plate), Plate, Fork, Napkin. Above the spoon and knife would be a water glass and above the napkin and fork might be a butter plate, with butter knife, (handle facing towards the plate, and blade facing downward).