I’ve got 2 of everything just in case. Dirty dishes can’t pile up if they don’t exist.
I have a giant stack of plates. So they can go into the dish washer after I use them. Same thing with boxer shorts and the laundry.
Also to support any surprise guests!
I was given so much stuff when I bought my house. My one aunt had a shopping addiction and just gave me all of the kitchen shit. I live alon and my house is too small and laid out too weird for me to comfortably have guests. Idk what to do with everything, so it just stays in a cabinet. I don’t want to throw it out because it’s nice, but I have no use for it
We’re a family of three with a 19 year old, so our cutlery drawer looks just like this unless we ask him to bring all the dishes from his room.
That struggle is real and universal! We found utensils buried in our back yard, at a friend’s house… it’s nuts!
He’s 19 years old, and you have to ask him to bring his dirty dishes out from his room because he is leaving them all in there?
Dude I’m 38 soon and I have to bring dishes in from the WFH office once in a while. Watching some YouTube during lunch or whatever. Then back to working. Then family comes home and it’s up out of the chair to start dinner and whatnot, sometimes the dishes get forgotten and left behind.
Yeah, I can understand that. That’s normal. But a 19 year old eating alone in their room so much, and collecting all of the dishes in the household, so the family has none and has to actively seek them out and ask for them is what’s odd to me.
Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to make it sound like that 19 year old isn’t poorly raised. They definitely are poorly raised. I just meant to say I’m not too far off myself. 😅
No worries, I think a lot of us have these periods in our lives where we neglect stuff like this at times. Just the 19 year old living at home and hoarding dirty dishes seems to hit different when they need to be asked to bring them out and they’re still living with their parents.
Excuse me, it goes: Fork->Knife->Spoon->tea spoon.
I don’t know what this is but it’s certainly not in keeping with the lord’s way.
Right chopstick -> left chopstick -> porcelain soup spoon -> packets of unused plastic foldable forks that came with the instant noodles
God, I love Asian soup apoons!
Do chopsticks have an orientation?
Yes, but their orientation is none of your business.
Yeah just like Twix.
Finnish mnemonic: Haaveilu. Haarukka=fork, veitsi=knife, lusikka=spoon.
Haaveilu=daydreaming, reverie
I think you’ve swapped knife and fork…
What the actual fuck!? The knives always go on the outside, far left or far right.
Knife should be on the left and the spoons on the right. Fite me.
I don’t know how it applies to cutlery drawers, but my parents taught me that when setting the table, the silverware should be in alphabetical order.
Ewwww arbitrary!
Not to say etiquette isn’t arbitrary, but the two top results (all I bothered to check) for my search about silverware placement suggests that the “correct” order is fork on the left, knife first on the right, then spoon furthest right. This is, indeed, alphabetical order.
So while it may be arbitrary, it isn’t arbitrary on an individual level.
Alphabetical order based on what language? Assuming English, since your comment is in English, but I’m curious if the rule would “translate” to other languages.
Indeed. Though my mother was quadrilingual and attempted to help me be at least bilingual, the only language in which I know more than a few words - written or spoken - is American English. As such, I’m not qualified to answer how diverse this system is, though I would be interested in hearing from someone who is.
Changing language can’t change what’s right. I think I win this one.
I was so bad at keeping on top of washing my dishes in Uni that I absolutely decided to have exactly 1 plate, cup, mug,and each cutlery. Can’t have more dirty dishes than you have dishes.
This is the way. Friends think I really like this one bowl. Truth is I like an empty sink, so I force myself to wash it by only owning one bowl.
Just don’t leave them in the sink and you can do the same with multiple of each, saving you the wash up. Just out them straight into the dishwasher. Saves energy, water and time.
you can honestly get by with just a spoon. need a butter knife? use the spoon handle. need to jab something? just scoop it instead. need to cut something? just cook it a little more so it gets soft
He dishwashes daily? How inefficient.
OP is a fancy one with their actual silverware. When i was a bachelor, it was box of plastic forks, box of plastic spoons, and box of plastic knives.
Saving up for singular silverware would probably save you money in the long run
I have 4 of each just in case I don’t feel like doing the dishes today
Don’t most sets come with 4?
The pictured method forces disipline. Honestly a tub of alcohol wipes in the kitchen and a quick wipe down with one of those works pretty well for cutlery
No pie server - what kind of barbarian is this?
They live alone, why have a pie server if you are just gonna eat it yourself?
For when that special someone comes over. Of course if you have a special someone you’d have 2 sets of silverware. Okay I see the point.
They are more likely to be just eating the whole pie in one sitting, too.
I did that a few times - not in one sitting but just eating pie as my only food for a couple days (I’m not a big eater). I remember standing in line at Albertson’s in my early 20s, seeing a rack of peach pies and suddenly realizing I could just buy one for myself. I was an adult. I could get a whole pie and eat as much of it as I wanted. Another time I ate almost nothing but Cap’n Crunch all weekend. A friend of mine had a summer job at a pizza place where she got to take home one pizza per day. She put them in her freezer and lived on pizza all summer, zero grocery expenses.
Oh, I have had more than one “I am gonna just sit here and eat this whole thing” nights.
Dude clearly not a big fan of steak.
Maybe it’s in their knife block.
I’m picturing a knife block that only has one slot for a single knife.
Or maybe they wear it on their belt, like this:
Did they borrow these from a restaurant. I just find it more menacing to just buy 1 of each, searched online and I can’t find a single reasonably priced utensil set that only sells 1 of each in the set.
2 words: Thrift. Shop.
In some Europe countries the all Chinese shops offer that option
That’s more than enough. I’ve survived for long with just a knife and a fork. A good knife works as a second fork.
One too many spoons but perfect otherwise.
The large one is for scooping ice cream into the bowl. The little one is for eating it.
What, you never have yogurt or tea with your morning oatmeal? Or are you a heathen that uses the same spoon for both?
I would probably get rid of everything but the fork and try to disprove that old you can’t eat soup with a fork joke.
One of my kids eats noodles w/ a spoon. Everything is possible.
Nooo, one is a teaspoon and the other a tablespoon! It’s for measuring!
Spoon cardinality.
I did this once, it was bliss.
