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0:00 So, what’s the American Style?
At the core, it means that you eat the majority of your food with your dominant hand and your fork only. While you eat with your dominant hand, your other hand rests on your lap or underneath the table.
0:12 What does the American Style look like?
Basically, you hold the fork in your dominant hand, and you only move it to a non-dominant hand when you cut. So, let’s say, for a steak: your fork moves to the non-dominant hand, you cut, you put the knife down, you switch hands, and you eat the piece of meat. If you want to cut another piece, you repeat the procedure again.
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As Americans we have better things to do than setting up rules over which hand is the proper one for holding a fork and then policing everyone else’s correct usage. Leave that to the nosy, knit picking Brits who wouldn’t like us even if we managed to hold cutlery perfectly with all ten toes.
Non etiquette, an infant style.
I have lived in America all my life, I have never seen anyone cut with their dominant hand and then switch forks from their non-dominant to their dominant. I've always seen people cut with their non-dominant and eat with their dominant. There was never any switching
Don't tell Americans how to eat. We had steak during WWII. You Europeans didn't until we beat the Germans.
Thank you
Switching hands is excessive and waste of movement, just hold fork in dominant hand, knife will only have to go back and forth if you can’t do that that just eat with your hands like a caveman
Tbh, switching hands is even more awkward than the British consistently holding the fork in the left hand with the tines down. I don't strictly follow either, but I am at least closer to the British.
Is it considered impolite to use your knife to help scoop your food onto your fork at the end of your meal in the american style? If you're eating rice, for example, it may be quite difficult to do so just with your fork when your meal is finishing rs
Absolute barbarians.
Peasants
To anyone who does this: I hate you.
If i saw someone do this, I'd assume they have some sort of neurological issue or recent head trauma. American, btw.
1. Please stop calling everything "American" when only limited to the US-American minority. About 75% of Americans are not US-Americans.
Finally common sense cutlery etiquette
Im curious what the sources are for American Style or is this an analysis? As an aside, I find it funny how some Europeans are quick to point out poor eating manners Americans. Several French took offense about keeping hands on laps because it was perceived as hiding something.
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Absolutely insane, being ambidextrous saves so much time.
what is your ambidextrous?
American style is where you eat the food however you like without a care in the world.
I think the best etiquette is not to think about it.
If you're having to consciously think about how you're using your fork and knife (and the most important spoon), something is wrong!
As long as you dont point or poke at people with your fork and knife, that's good manners. It would be bad manners if your host expected you to use your fork and knife in a certain way.
I rarely use knives while eating. But I'd have to sit down and use one to figure out how I do it. I dont think I do a lot of back and forth, but maybe I do. But most of my food doesn't need a knife.
i can use fork to chop the meat and eat.
The constant swapping from one hand to the other is so inefficient.
Peasant style.
That's how real men eat just saying
So uneeded they just seem to want to do everything different to the rest of the world at this point
I love the European style…much more efficient
I’m not a Native American but I use tomahawk on my left hand to chop and my right hand fingers to licking good. Eat the ducky moss 🤪
Why the hell you don't use spoon to eat bean ??? 😮😮😮
Goddamn savagery
With the hand under the table he's either fondling his pistol or masterbating so hands above the table at all times😂😂😂 and the dominant hand thing, is he a fiddler crab?
I live on the USA. I can't be around ppl eating like this it makes my eyes bleed.
This is why I decided to switch to the English style of eating.
European style seems easier.
My blue collar working father taught me this as a child. Goes to show that etiquette is not class specific. Thanks for this wonderful video❤
American style is an oxymoron
Are any of these etiquette channels real, or are they all just meant to be humorous?
CORRECT! FINALLY someone gets it right. This is called the early French way of eating taught in private boarding schools of the elite. The French created this style of eating when they adopted utensils after the Italians. The ENGLISH and others changed to the hand never leaving the hand and scooping on the back of the fork to be more expedient. We Americans should NEVER change, it is the correct way to eat with the knife and fork. Just like driving on the right side of the road the English and others that adopted the modern English style are incorrect.
Oh my, he ate his peas using his fork as a shovel-William won't like that.
If that's a business meeting and the guy across me is offering something. I won't drop the knife. I will hold it well. Keep the pork on my left arm and the knife on the right dominant hand.
If his proposal is fair and good business, it's only then that I turned the situation into a happy meal using proper dining protocol.
But in The Philippines despite 400 years of American influence in all Filipinos, we never taught to use knife. Only spoon and pork…that's all. Do you know why…fear of the Americans.
Filipinos are experts in all bladed weapons. You see Tabak in the walls, Japanese Takana by the door and buddle of blades in the kitchen and all drawers, flower vases, pots and mats.
So, its5too much for them to give us a bread knife.
Hence why you cut up the cut before you dig in
How uncultured.
ITS WRONG AND THER IS NO SUCH ETIQUETTE..
I always hold a fork in my right hand and cut with the left and I'm annoyed by the people who claim I'm left handed. How can I be left handed if I'd poke my eye out if I tried to manouver the fork into my mouth with mybleft hand. 😂
My mother would go absolutely crazy if she saw me eat like this; switching hands and holding your hand under the table.