The behavior of the people present at the table should be rational and harmonious, because the rules of etiquette have been tested for centuries. Great importance has always been attached to table manners. Therefore, one cannot say about a high cultural level of a person if he eats carelessly or ugly, does not know how to use cutlery.
Table etiquette
The main rule: cutlery, which are located to the right of the plate, should be held with the right hand while eating, the cutlery located to the left of the plate, with the left hand. The knife is held in the right hand, and the fork in the left (teeth down). It is not allowed to shift the instruments from the left to the right hand, and vice versa. You cannot eat with a knife and cut everything with it at once, so that in the future you can only use a fork. It would be more correct to cut off one piece and immediately send it to your mouth, otherwise the food will quickly cool down.
The handles of the fork and knife should be held in your hands, hold the beginning of the knife blade with your index finger. To cut a piece of meat, the knife and fork are held at a slight angle. Sitting at the table, you need to rest your wrists on its edge. You should not spread your elbows, bow your head low over the plate. You need to drink and eat without sound, you should not blow on hot food, sip and smack your lips. Women with painted lips should not use linen napkins, but paper.
How to eat correctly?
They do not hold a piece of bread in their hands, they do not bite off from it, but pinch off small pieces that are eaten in one or two times. Special knife and fork for fish are smaller in size than cutlery. If the fish dish is fried or boiled, then the bones are separated with a knife. If you find a bone in your mouth, put it on a paper napkin leaning against your lips, then on a plate. Soup is eaten, scooping up with a spoon from itself, so as not to stain clothes. You need to eat it by slightly pushing and tilting the plate away from you. The broth is first eaten with a small dessert spoon, then drunk from a cup. The soup spoon should always be on the plate, not on the table.
If the dish does not require cutting (pates, hard-boiled eggs, casseroles, puddings, soufflés), use only a fork in your right hand. It is allowed to help during the meal with a piece of bread in the left hand. Sandwiches are eaten with a knife and fork. If you need to make a sandwich, take a small amount of butter, caviar or pate from the common dish on your plate. Salads are put on a plate with a salad spoon, they are eaten with a fork.
If the food on the platter goes around from hand to hand, you first need to offer it to a neighbor, and then put it to yourself without choosing. Place the dish from the tray with a fork and a spoon (the spoon should be in the left hand). The use of a knife for noodles, hodgepodge, omelets, jelly, pasta, brains, vegetables and puddings is excluded. The listed dishes are eaten exclusively with a fork.
The bird is eaten with a fork and knife, and it is not at all necessary to juggle devices in the sweat of the brow, trying to clean the meat of the bones. We'll have to come to terms with the fact that a little meat will remain with the bones. At home, you can afford to take a chicken leg in your hand. Sweet dough is eaten with specially designed forks. If there are none, you can use a spoon. You can take dry cakes, gingerbread and gingerbread with your hands.
The pears and apples are cut into quarters, the skin is removed with a knife, then eaten with a fork and knife. It is unacceptable to peel fruit in hand. Cherries and cherries are taken by a twig, sent to the mouth. Do not spit the seeds out directly onto a plate or place them in an ashtray. They spit it out unnoticed into a fist, then transfer it to their plate.
