Setting the table, what's your position on spoons

[FO4UR]

Unless there is company (which IMO requires the basic full setting), I don't put out spoons unless there will be a use for them. However, whatever gets put out has to get washed even if someone didn't use it. I might put out butter knives for example, but not all will get used. They all still need to be washed.

 

 

:iagree:

[regentrude]

A utensil used to push peas onto a fork.

 

Why does it require an extra utensil? Don't you have a knife?

[Ellie]

Why does it require an extra utensil? Don't you have a knife?

:blink::001_huh:

Use a knife as a push-up?? Oh, the horror of it all!!!:D

[pfamilygal]

I'm not a fan of spooning. I mean, when the tEA drinking is over, all the utensils should be returned to their rightful places on opposite sides of the drawer, not touching at all.

 

That is what this is about, right?

[KungFuPanda]

I'm not a fan of spooning. I mean, when the tEA drinking is over, all the utensils should be returned to their rightful places on opposite sides of the drawer, not touching at all.

 

That is what this is about, right?

 

Wrong. Spoons are built to nest for a reason!

[stripe]

We don't put spoons on the table unless we are using spoons.

 

I am the opposite. I eat almost everything with a spoon. It takes an "occasion" to warrant a fork. :) Like my parents visting. They are fork people.

 

To quote a woman I overheard at a dinner, talking to her infant, "No, we don't want a fork for that. We use a fork for strawberries. Spoons are for eating rice with."

 

I don't set out stuff no one will need. I don't see the point. They won't stay clean for long.

[IsabelC]

Does anyone else find it slightly odd that one would even have a 'position on spoons'?

[Shawna in Texas]

I'm supposed to *set* the table?! ;)

 

We fill plates and go sit. I usually grab 4 forks from the drawer, a couple of steak knives on occasion, and just put them on the nearest spot on the table within my reach.

 

If there was any unnecessary rule which required me to be in the kitchen one second longer than I had to be just to clean, it wouldn't happen.

 

Most of our dinner company are kids, and we do the same thing. If we have adult company, we go out. It's less stressful for me. People that get invited over are folks I want to visit with and I'm not capable of cooking and visiting at the same time.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not a fan of spooning. I mean, when the tEA drinking is over, all the utensils should be returned to their rightful places on opposite sides of the drawer, not touching at all.

 

That is what this is about, right?

 

:D Spooning leads to forking.

[angela in ohio]

A utensil used to push peas onto a fork.

 

No, no, no....

 

I eat my peas with honey;

I've done so all my life.

It makes my peas taste funny,

But it keeps them on my knife.

 

No one else sang that as a child? :leaving:

[historically accurate]

I was raised where you set the table with all utensils, and they were all washed (by hand, no less!) even if not used. I'm lazy, so we just grab whatever utensils are needed for that meal, but I still don't feel like the table is "properly" set.

 

I realized a few months ago that my kids don't really know how to properly set a table, so we're working on that. I usually serve at the stove & just hand them their plates, so they've never really set the table -- they just grab a fork on the way to the table...