How to arrange the cutlery on the dining table?

Variety of cutlery can be surprising. Learn how to place cutlery, and you can avoid uncomfortable situations, even during a very formal meeting.

Nothing pleases the eye and stimulates the appetite, as beautifully laid table.

Is it pleasant for you to sit at a table with the mess, scattered plates, napkins and cutlery? No one likes.

How to serve the table?

Put big plates of 27 cm in diameter for each guest. They put each successive plate. The saucer for butter is placed from the left side, sometimes it may be used for cheese. Above this a plate of medium size for salad is placed.

The arrangement of the cutlery

1. butter knife

2. butter plate

3. soup spoon

4. fork for seafood (cold appetizers)

5. knife for seafood (cold appetizers)

6. fork for the meat, salad ( main course)

7. table-knife

8. main course plate

9. soup plate

10. dessert spoon

11. dessert fork

12. water glass

13. champagne glass

14. red wine glass

15. white wine glass

Remember that the fork is always located on the left of the plates, knives and spoons – on the right. Dessert spoon and fork is placed over the top of the table plates.

As you know, for every dish is served with different cutlery. You need to put them oin a simple logic circuit. Near plates there is the cutlery for the main course, then the knife and the fork for the fish, then snack knives and forks.

If the menu is a soup, the soup spoon should be putt he last on the right, next to the forks. The distance between all cutlery should be no more than 1 cm.

The knife for dessert or fruit knife must be placed over the dessert plate on the top.

You can put napkins to the right from the spoon , but very often beautiful napkins are folded and put on the dining plates.

Pay attention! the cutlery is placed with concave side down. Putting them on the contrary is a full moveton.