Important international law question

[jsluder]

Do knives and spoons need to be kept appart?

The important thing is to keep the spoons separated from the dishes.

[dwest]

[Charlene]

I must be REALLY deviant!

Perhaps, which way does your toilet paper roll? Overhand or underhand?

over.

[Charlene]

Do knives and spoons need to be kept appart?

The important thing is to keep the spoons separated from the dishes.

Well, of course. We wouldn't want them to run away.

[Dominic Allan]

Knifes, forks and spoons are stored in the dishwasher. Come out of the dishwasher for use. Sit in the sink after use. Go back in the dishwasher before being used again. Sharp knives get hand washed very carefully and put in their own drawer carefully separated from each other. This is the path to world peace

This is what I would do left to my own devices.

[sbfluter]

All cutlery lives in the dish drainer. Unless it's being used or dirty. Forget the dishwasher. It really is easier just to wash dishes by hand.

And the TP is hung overhand. Either that or it's just sitting there because it's too darn big to fit on the roller.

[chrisoff]

And the TP is hung overhand.

Except by my mum, god knows what she's playing at.

[Nanohedron]

I must be REALLY deviant!

Perhaps, which way does your toilet paper roll? Overhand or underhand?

I'm usually in too much of a hurry to care about public opinion on the matter, myself.

Hmm. This question about the storage and ordering of one's dining flatware is just plain fascinating as all get-out. And it's even more fascinating to to witness how people will without a thought - nay, eagerly - expose the personal and delicate details of their private lives in matters cutlerial. It's almost like sorting someone else's laundered underwear to watch it.

So, okay. My tray has five compartments: three shorter ones on the left with a long one rightmost, and a transverse-oriented bitty compartment above the short three. From left - my left - to right, 1) knives (nothing sharp), 2) spoons, 3) forks, and 4) the big guns - like chef's knives - that have seen better days but somehow I can't bear to part with. All the dining flatware come in three types, two of which are differing "bistro" styles, and the familiar plain flat metal handles which hurt my hands, so I don't use those. The bitty compartment has antiques in it like can/bottle openers, a steadily depopulating handful of corn-on-the-cob handle-prong-thingies, and an absinthe spoon (arguably the crown of French civilisation).

So, knife-spoon-fork, and to the devil with international niceties. It just sort of happened that way and so be it. The EU ain't gonna get its cultural tentacles into MY drawers.

[Innocent Bystander]

And the TP is hung overhand.

Except by my mum, god knows what she's playing at.

I remember hearing an argument about this where the (male) consensus was that overhand was (much) more convenient and the only reason for having it underhand was some sort of prurience of a sexual nature. The argument went back and forth for a while until somebody said "Wait a minute. Do you use kitchen roll in your kitchen?"
"Yes, of course!"
"And how is it hung?"
<Embarassed silence.>
So the toilet paper was hung overhand from then on, and no argument.

[djm]

My tray has five compartments: three shorter ones on the left with a long one rightmost, and a transverse-oriented bitty compartment above the short three. From left - my left - to right, 1) knives (nothing sharp), 2) spoons, 3) forks, and 4) the big guns - like chef's knives

OMG! You've got the tray sitting backwards in the drawer. No wonder the rest of your life is in disarray!

djm

[Nanohedron]

My tray has five compartments: three shorter ones on the left with a long one rightmost, and a transverse-oriented bitty compartment above the short three. From left - my left - to right, 1) knives (nothing sharp), 2) spoons, 3) forks, and 4) the big guns - like chef's knives

OMG! You've got the tray sitting backwards in the drawer. No wonder the rest of your life is in disarray!

djm

It's not wrong. I simply have a different...um...orientation. So fork you.

[dwest]

[Nanohedron]

First of all hand washing dishes is just icky! And I'd rather spend my time dissecting owl pellets or mucking about looking for salamanders in stagnant ephemeral ponds. Plus my dishwasher uses less water.

Some of us haven't the privilege of a choice in the matter.

And anyway, I rinse dishes off when I'm done with 'em. How sensible, no? That way you can stack 'em up in the sink and they won't get all crusted and funkalicious and moldy and smelly while you're waiting to decide when to finally wash 'em. Which relaxed practice, I suggest, uses less water than a dishwashing machine.

Well, okay, if you use the dishwasher on a daily basis.

[djm]

So fork you.

I expect nothing less from someone in your confused state.



djm

[Flyingcursor]

My tray has five compartments: three shorter ones on the left with a long one rightmost, and a transverse-oriented bitty compartment above the short three. From left - my left - to right, 1) knives (nothing sharp), 2) spoons, 3) forks, and 4) the big guns - like chef's knives

OMG! You've got the tray sitting backwards in the drawer. No wonder the rest of your life is in disarray!

djm

That's the answer! International Law can take a flying leap.

this site offers some options in silverware storage:

http://www.stacksandstacks.com/kitchen/ ... rganizers/