Any feast, breakfast, lunch, dinner is not complete without bread. It is indispensable in any home, on every table. Like many other dishes, you need to be able to eat bread according to the rules of etiquette.
At the table, you need to take bread with your hand. From a common plate, take a few or one piece of bread and put it on a pie saucer next to you. The saucer should be placed to the left of the plate. Bread should be eaten by breaking off small pieces with your fingers.
For sandwiches use stale bread that does not crumble. Small sandwiches are allowed to be consumed by hand, while holding it with a napkin. Large sandwiches that have several layers should be placed on a plate and eaten with cutlery.
When are you going to smear butter for bread, put a slice of bread on the edge of a saucer with butter and use a knife to spread the butter on the bread.
It is also recommended to spread pâté, butter or other ingredients only on a slice that can be taken off immediately. Don't spread the whole piece of bread. If this has already happened, eat such a piece with cutlery.
In order to spread jam or honey on bread, cut the bread into oblong pieces. Spread it with jam or honey, eat immediately.
Sausage or cheese not accepted to put on bread. If you want to eat bread with sausage or cheese, do it separately using a fork and knife.
Pas the rules of etiquette, it is forbidden to bite off bread from a large piece. Also, it is not allowed to hold it in the palm of your hand in order to spread oil. Do not use the remaining pieces of bread to collect the remnants of the sauce or soak it in a plate. It is also considered bad manners to leave a bitten piece of bread on a plate.
Everyone knows that knowing the rules of conduct at the table and following them is extremely important, since ethical behavior at the table helps us feel confident and comfortable.
The inability to use a knife and fork should not deprive us of the pleasure of spending time in a fine restaurant. Here are some basic rules of conduct in restaurants and fine society in general.
In a restaurant: menu selection, ordering, tips
Near the mirror in front of the entrance to the restaurant hall, you can straighten your hair, but you can’t comb your hair or make up - this is done in the ladies’ room. A man enters the room first.
In the wardrobe, leave a coat, an umbrella, bags, a case with documents (if you are not having a business meeting), but not a handbag.
It is acceptable to arrange a meeting on the street if you do not like to go to a restaurant alone. But according to the rules, the one who invites comes earlier and waits at the table.
The man orders the dishes, he also chooses the wine. True, he can consult with you, ask about your wishes. A man communicates with the attendants - head waiter, waiter and sommelier.
If you invited a business partner to dinner, it is better to make and pay for the order in advance. They don't talk about business until the dishes and drinks are chosen.
The one who invited pays the bill, even if it's a business dinner and the invitee is a man.
If a large company dine, everyone pays for himself, while the husband always pays for his wife.
Taboo. Knocking with a spoon, calling the waiter, is unacceptable. You can not demand a bill when a partner or partner finishes their coffee - even if you are in a hurry. It is not polite.
NB! In the restaurant hall, do not move a chair yourself - wait until your companion or head waiter does it. Stand still without bending your legs or looking back.
If you are in a restaurant with a company and invited a friend to join, introduce him to everyone present.
In a restaurant, it is customary to leave a tip in the amount of 10% of the order value in excess of the amount indicated on the bill. In Ukraine (in all high-class restaurants) and in Germany, the cost of service is included in the bill, and you can limit yourself to the amount indicated in it.
There is an unspoken rule: tips are left in banknotes. The account can be checked for "errors". And if you are unhappy with the service, you can leave no tip.
Code of Conduct
You need to sit at the table at a comfortable distance - not too close, but not too far - the distance should not exceed the width of the palm.
In no case should you put your elbows on the table; you can only put your wrists on the table for a short time. However, women are allowed to lean slightly on the table if absolutely necessary.
When you use cutlery, your hands should not touch the table at all. When eating, if you have one hand free, do not keep it under the table - this is bad form.
Sitting on a chair should always be straight, you can only lean slightly over the plate while eating. You need to sit at the table straight, but at the same time loose, so as not to give the impression that you are uncomfortable or uncomfortable.
A personal linen napkin should be placed on your knees. She should not wipe her lips and hands while eating. To do this, there should be paper napkins on the table.
After you have finished eating, you can lightly touch your lips with a linen napkin and wipe your fingertips.
If women have painted lips, they should only use paper napkins.
Naturally, in no case should you use any napkins at the table as a handkerchief. At the end of the meal, just put the napkin on the table.
Even if you are very hungry, you need to eat slowly, silently. Chew with your mouth closed and never slurp or blow on food to cool it down.
Don't talk over food.
Do not insist on choosing dishes for table neighbors.
Even if the dish was very tasty, you can not wipe the bottom of the plate with a piece of bread.
At a large table, all common dishes should have their own utensils, such as special forks, spoons or tweezers. With these devices, and not personal ones, you need to take and put food from common dishes on your plate. In no case do not take individual dishes from a common dish.
If the desired dish or, say, a salt shaker are at a great distance from you, do not reach for them across the entire table. Ask a neighbor or waiter to serve them to you.
If you need to temporarily interrupt the meal, in this case, put the knife and fork on the plate as they were held: the knife with the handle to the right, the fork with the handle to the left.
If you have completely completed the meal, arrange the cutlery as follows: the knife and fork lie side by side, parallel to each other, and the handles of both items look to the right. This means that you have completed dinner (lunch, breakfast, lunch), and the plate can be taken away.
If you are full, it is not necessary to finish the meal to the end. This rule also applies to alcoholic beverages.
Table etiquette
Bread is eaten in pieces, which are broken off from a large piece taken. It is not customary to bite off directly from this piece.
By the way, bread is taken by hand. In the same way, they take cake, cookies and fruits. Sugar in cubes is also taken by hand or with special tongs if they lie nearby.
In case you want to butter the bread, gradually break off small pieces, press them against the plate with your fingers and butter them. By the way, they take butter, pate with common cutlery from common dishes and put it on their plate, and only after that they spread it on bread. Caviar can be immediately spread on bread.
Buttered bread cannot be cut with a knife.
If there is a small bread plate near you, then the bread must be transferred from the common plate to it. That is what it is intended for. Butter is also placed with a clean knife on the edge of the same plate. The same is done with caviar, but instead of a knife, a small spatula is used for caviar.
Sandwiches served before the feast are eaten with hands, and at the table - with a fork and knife.
Sometimes a buffet sandwich is multi-level and falls apart in the hands, does not fit in the mouth. Such a sandwich should be put on a plate and use a knife and fork (if there are no cutlery, use paper napkins).
Meat
Pork and lamb chops, fillets, steaks, liver and other similar dishes are eaten using a table knife with a fork: gradually cut off small pieces without cutting everything at once. In this case, the knife is in the right hand, and the fork is in the left. When cutting a dish, the fork must not be held perpendicular, but only at an angle to the plate.
Meatballs, cabbage rolls, omelettes, cutlets, and other soft dishes that do not involve the use of a knife are eaten with a fork, which is held with the right hand, helping oneself with a knife. But it is not customary to cut dishes with a knife.
Remove the shish kebab from the skewer with a fork or the blunt side of a knife.
The sauce is poured over the meat, not the side dish.
Pierce the Kiev cutlet at the bone so that the oil flows out, and cut into pieces. Attention: do not take it by the bone and papillot!
The bird is eaten with a knife and fork. In this case, it is not necessary to cut off all the bones completely. At home, you can afford to take a chicken leg in your hand.
Meat with vegetables. There are conflicting recommendations on how to eat such a dish. According to the first, the meat should be cut into small pieces and put the knife aside. According to the second - not for a minute should you let go of the knife from the right hand, from the left - the fork. The first rule is guided by the Americans. In the European sense, this method is far from elegant. Following the second recommendation, it will be correct to cut off a piece of meat, holding it with a fork. Mashed potatoes are placed on a cut piece of meat, pierced on a fork.
If meat is served with peas or other vegetables that are difficult to hold on a fork, then you can do this: holding the meat with a fork, cut off a piece, then turn the fork with this piece and put vegetables in it; vegetables can be put on cut pieces of meat, as much as can be held.
When the meat is over, holding the fork already in your right hand, eat the peas (at the same time, do not put the peas with a fork, but pick them up like on a shoulder blade).
If the potatoes are served whole, they should not be crushed on a plate.
Salad served with meat on a separate plate should be eaten from the same plate, picking up a little in order with what lies on the main plate.
Fish
Fish is eaten with a fish utensil or with a fork and knife. In the case when there are no special devices, fish can be eaten with two table forks.
If a spatula and a fork were served to the fish, then the spatula is held in the right hand and the pieces are held, and the fork is held in the left and the bones are separated.
If two forks are served with the fish, one is used for eating and the other for separating the bones.
If one fork was served to the fish, then they take it in the right hand, and in the left - a piece of bread.
If the fish is served whole (boiled or smoked), then first the upper part of the fillet is separated from the skeleton and eaten, then the spine and bones are separated. Set aside and proceed to the second part. After this dish is eaten, a fish skeleton should remain on the plate.
If a fish bone remains in the mouth, it must be quietly put with the tip of the tongue on the fork and set aside on the edge of the plate.
Fish cold dishes are eaten with snack utensils.
Boiled and hot smoked stellate sturgeon, sturgeon, beluga are eaten only with a fork.
A slice of lemon served with cold fish is applied to the lips after the fish has been eaten.
Oysters in restaurants are served already open. First, squeeze the lemon into the shell, then take the oyster in your left hand and separate the pulp with a fork. Eat it with a special device.
Crayfish are eaten with the hands. At the same time, there should be bowls of water at a moderate temperature on the table in order to wash hands after eating. Sliced lemons are usually present in such water, rose petals are less often used. Also, along with such vases, there must be clean napkins, cotton or paper, which should be removed immediately after the end of the meal.
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In a similar way, they also eat asparagus and tobacco chickens.
For lobsters / lobsters, a special set is used: tweezers, a special short fork and a spatula. The lobster shell is cut with tweezers, starting from the back. Claws are cut in the same way. Soft meat is removed with a special long fork with two prongs.
Shrimps are also eaten with the hands.
Snack
If you decide to try a snack, put it on a plate and eat it with a fork and knife.
Cheese, poultry, ham, sausage and other natural meat dishes are not cut into small pieces immediately. It is necessary to cut such dishes using a knife and fork, gradually.
An appetizer, for example, if it is ham, should not be placed on a piece of bread.
If the sausage is served unpeeled, then each piece is cleaned on a plate with a knife and fork. Dry sausage is eaten with the skin on.
A soft-boiled egg is placed in a special glass, then the edge of the spoon is hit on the top. If the top does not bounce, you can remove it with your fingers. Eat an egg with a spoon.
Scrambled eggs can be eaten with a spoon or fork, depending on the consistency.
Sausages and sausages in a thin skin can be eaten without removing it.
All types of cheese are served after meat dishes. Take cheese in portions.
Spaghetti or straw pasta is very difficult to eat in a way that looks pretty. There are three ways:
The first method involves the use of a fork and a spoon. The spoon should be held in the left hand. Lower the edge of the spoon into the plate, wind the pasta on the fork in the recess of the spoon. Wrap a little pasta on a fork, cut off this portion with a spoon.
The second way: hold the fork like a knife prepared for cutting. Dip a fork into the thick pasta and lift them up, separating a small portion. Then again lower the fork with pasta into the plate, wrap them around the fork and quickly put them in your mouth.
The third way: chop pasta on a fork, wrap a portion of pasta on it (while holding the fork vertically). The basic rule is to pick up no more than 2-3 threads of pasta on the fork.
Salad is eaten with a fork. A knife is used to cut large chunks or lettuce leaves.
Green salad, as far as possible, do not cut with a knife. If it is served so that the leaves are too large, then you need to cut them with a fork or carefully wrap the leaves around it, and eat, trying not to leave traces of sauce on the chin.
Pate can be taken with a knife, but as a rule, pate is eaten by separating small pieces with a fork. You can spread pate on bread only in the family circle.
Mustard and salt are taken in small spoons. Mustard is placed at the bottom of the plate on the right side.
Soups, broths
It is not customary to eat up soups without a trace; according to the rules, a small amount of soup remains on the plate. However, in the home circle, you can finish the soup by tilting the plate away from you.
Soups are eaten with a spoon, picking up from oneself and bringing a wide edge to the mouth.
A spoon is used if it is necessary to catch croutons floating in the soup, an egg, pieces of meat.
Also, a spoon is used if the soup is served in a cup with two handles.
If the soup is very hot, do not blow on it to cool it down, do not stir it with a spoon. It is better to wait a while until it cools down.
Soup in a spoon should be enough so that it does not overflow from it.
The soup spoon is not put on the table, but after eating it is left in the bowl.
The broth should be eaten with a dessert spoon, bringing it to the mouth with a sharp end, slightly obliquely.
Broths, soups, which are served in cups, should be drunk as they drink coffee or tea, without using a spoon.
When you eat the first dish, do not sip, eat silently.
If there are dumplings, noodles or potatoes in the soup, they are crushed with the edge of a spoon.
The chicken in the broth is both the first and the second, so first they eat the broth with a spoon from the plate, and then the chicken pieces - already with the help of a fork and knife.
Fruits
Fruits served on the table are not tested for strength and are not selected.
Bananas are served unpeeled and eaten with the hands.
Oranges are peeled and divided into slices. They eat them with their hands. The bones are placed on a plate.
It is recommended to peel as follows: cut the peel crosswise, remove it and divide the orange into slices. Neither oranges nor tangerines should be peeled in a spiral.
Grapefruit is served cut across, the middle is separated from the peel, but remains inside. It should be eaten with a spoon, you can sprinkle with powdered sugar.
It is customary to cut watermelons and melons into medium-sized slices, serve with a peel and eat with a fork and knife. Taking a piece from a common plate, it must be put on your plate with the skin down, after which a thin slice should be cut off with a fruit knife. and, freeing it from seeds, send it to your mouth on a fork.
Melon can be eaten with a spoon.
Mango should be cut in half on your own plate. It is eaten with a spoon, after removing the bone.
Pineapple must be peeled, cut across into thin slices and put on a plate. Pineapple is eaten with a fork and knife.
Bread must be taken by hand. It should not be pricked on a fork.
If there is a special pie plate next to you, then the bread for yourself is transferred from the common bread box to it.
A piece of bread taken from a bread box is not cut with a knife - small pieces are broken off from it.
Do not bite off a piece of bread. Bread is eaten in small pieces that can be eaten once or twice and which are broken off over your plate.
Do not crumble bread into soup, sauce or other dish. Also, the consumer should not roll balls from the bread crumb and leave bitten pieces.
Holding a piece of bread in your right hand, you can help yourself to put a piece of food from the plate to the fork.
It is not a whole piece of bread that is smeared with butter, but each successively broken off piece. At the same time, a piece of bread is placed on the edge of the plate and, holding it with the fingers of the left hand, butter is spread. Pieces with butter are not harvested for the future, but they are eaten right there. Only after eating one piece, you can spread the next one.
They also eat bread with caviar and pate. Caviar is applied to bread with a special spatula, pate - with a knife or fork.
At breakfast, you can spread butter on a whole piece of bread. The buttered piece is also not cut with a knife, but it can be bitten off.
If the bread is without butter, but with cheese or ham, then it is cut in its own plate, using a knife and fork.
If bread is eaten with honey, jam, jam, confiture, then it is first cut into strips. Next, holding the bread with the fingers of your left hand on a plate
take on a plate With lad and smear it.Kulebyaki, pies, pretzels, cakes are served sliced on the table. Their pieces are transferred to their plate with a spatula, tongs or a large fork and then eaten with a knife and fork.
Small pies, like bread, are taken by hand. Very greasy pies are allowed to be eaten with a knife and fork.
Drying and crackers can be dipped in tea or milk only at the family table.
Snacks
Small snack sandwiches are eaten by hand. Large snack sandwiches are eaten with a knife and fork, put on a plate or, in extreme cases, on a napkin.
When preparing a sandwich on your plate, they put bread and butter on it. Next, holding the bread with two fingers, spread it with butter. Sausage, ham, cheese, slices of meat are put on a sandwich with a fork.
Snacks don't have to be made into sandwiches. Pieces of sausage, ham, etc. It is best to eat with a knife and fork.
They usually start with fish snacks and continue with meat ones. If you don’t feel like fish, then you can immediately start with meat, but after it they don’t return to fish, because. there will already be a dulling of the sense of taste. In addition, such "throwing" between snacks can lead to a rapid loss of appetite and reluctance to eat the next, already main and special dishes.
Cold snacks are eaten by consumers with a fork and knife. If the dish does not need to be cut (for example, pate, soufflé, etc.), then you can get by with just one fork, which must be held in your right hand. You can help yourself with a piece of bread, holding it in your left hand.
Butter can be served in an individual butter bowl, which you need to put on your bread or dessert plate when using. If the oil is served in a large piece, then they take it and transfer it to their plate with a special knife. A figurine made of oil (ball, rosette, etc.) is allowed to be taken with your own knife.
Caviar is usually served on a slice of lemon with a piece of ice. You should put a portion of caviar on your plate, squeeze lemon juice on top and then eat with a fork. Toasted toast or fresh bread with butter is eaten with caviar.
Artichokes boiled in salted water are usually served with mayonnaise and vegetable oil. You should use your right hand to pick off easily separable individual leaves and dip them in melted butter or mayonnaise. The main part, the middle is separated with a fork.
Asparagus is eaten with both hands and special
and in ilks.Olives should be eaten with a coffee spoon, a special fork or a skewer. Seeds of olives are picked up with a spoon and put on a plate from it.
Warm appetizers (eggs, puddings, casseroles, vegetable appetizers) are soft enough to not require a knife. So they are eaten with a snack fork held in the right hand.
Hot appetizers from cocottes or chillies are eaten with a special cocotte fork or a teaspoon.
You should not lean too much on snacks, even if they are very tasty. After all, other dishes will follow.
Salads, vegetables, herbs
Salad and greens, which are served with meat on a separate plate, are eaten from it, alternating with what lies on the main plate. Green salad, if possible, do not cut with a knife. Very large arugula leaves, long sprigs of dill should either be cut with a fork, or carefully wrapped around it.
If the salad is a side dish to a hot dish and is served on the same plate as meat or poultry, then it can be handled using a knife and fork.
Salad served in a separate vase or salad bowl is put on a plate with appliances attached to the salad. From a common plate, vegetables and herbs are taken with common cutlery. They eat on their own plate with their own individual.
If fresh vegetables are served as a salad or vinaigrette (finely chopped and ready to eat), then they are eaten with a knife and fork. The same devices are used when eating cucumbers, sweet peppers, etc., served on a common plate in the form of "vegetable cuts": large pieces are cut, immediately sending a freshly cut piece into the mouth.
If a vegetable cut from large curly pieces is served, then various "rosettes" from radishes or "stars" from carrots, as well as celery, are taken by hand and, dipped in salt on their plate, bite off. The rest of the piece is placed on the edge of your plate (or in a small plate specially designed for this).
If evenly sliced vegetables or whole mini-tomatoes on skewers are served with sauces, they are usually dipped into the sauce and put in the mouth whole. If it is not possible to eat a piece at a time, then after biting off it is not dipped into a common gravy boat. After use, the skewer is laid on the edge of the plate.
No need to prick peas or corn kernels on the fork. They should be put on an inverted fork with a knife (as on a spoon). The procedure will be facilitated if you first press the peas or corn grains a little in a plate, and chop a small piece of the main dish on the fork.
At an informal table, it is allowed to take small fruits with your hands.
Soups
While eating the first course (soup, broth or consommé), you do not need to take a full spoon into the “board”: you can easily splash it.
The soup is slowly poured into your mouth. They don't "sip". They don’t blow on the soup either in a bowl or on a spoon, and they don’t interfere with it with a spoon, cooling it. If the first dish is too hot, you just need to wait until it cools down.
Scoop with a spoon from right to left or away from you, bringing it to your mouth with the left wide edge (the thumb lies on top of the handle). Soup is not eaten from the end of a spoon. The thick is eaten at the same time as the liquid.
If it is necessary to chop dumplings, noodles, meatballs, potatoes in the soup, then this is done with the edge of a spoon (not with a knife).
There are recommendations that if soup or broth is served in a cup with one eye, then it should be drunk like coffee or tea, without using a spoon. And if the soup is served in a cup with two ears, then a spoon is used. However, soup or broth is usually drunk like coffee or tea, both when the cup has one ear and when it has two. You can catch floating croutons, an egg, meatballs or pieces of meat just with a spoon. Chicken pieces from the broth are eaten with a fork and knife.
If the soup meat is served separately, then the consumer needs to take a piece, cut it with a knife and fork, and then put it in his bowl of soup.
When the first dish is eaten with a spoon, the handle of the cup is held with the left hand. The rest are drunk.
When finishing the first course, you do not need to tilt the plate towards yourself (you can stain your clothes) or away from yourself (you can stain the host's table), you just need to leave a small amount of soup in the bowl. At the home table, you can tilt the plate away from you.
A spoonful of soup is not placed on the table either during or after the meal – it is left in the bowl. If the soup is added, then the spoon still remains in the bowl.
The second portion of the soup is not asked.
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Dumplings
Dumplings are eaten with a fork. At the same time, they are poisoned in the mouth as a whole, so that juice does not flow out of them.
Pancakes
Pancakes are served hot, stacked and placed in the center of the table.
Pancakes are served with butter, sour cream, a wide variety of snacks, both salty (salmon, herring, caviar, etc.) and sweet (honey, jam, jam, etc.). Snacks should be fully cooked and free of bones.
Snacks are served both in common plates and in individual butter dishes, caviar bowls, sockets, etc.
For common dishes, common appliances are served, pancakes are eaten from their plate with individual appliances. Empty sockets or saucers with teaspoons for snacks are placed next to individual plates.
Stuffed pancakes with minced meat are served with hot broth poured into cups or bowls.
At the official table, pancakes are eaten with a knife and fork. The pancake is taken from the general serving by catching the edge of the upper pancake and then rotating the cutlery away from you, folding the hooked pancake into a tube. The pancake is then transferred to its own plate. It is deployed there. With the help of a knife spread a snack. Then they roll it up again into a tube, from which slices are cut for food. If the filling is liquid and is in an individual outlet, then the pancake is immediately crushed without unfolding and dipped in sour cream, butter, jam, etc.
At the home table, pancakes can be taken by hand: folded into a triangle, an envelope or rolled up. Also, in a family or friendly circle, without the help of a fork or knife, you can dip a pancake into an appetizer or wrap pieces of filling in it, just bite off.
Vegetables
Not raw, boiled, stewed, steamed chopped vegetables are eaten with a fork. Do not cut soft vegetables.
With a knife, they only help to put vegetables on a fork and hold them if necessary. So, for example, potatoes are cut into pieces with a fork in the left hand, with a knife in the right hand they only hold the potatoes.
However, the knife comes into play if the potatoes are cooked "in uniform". In this case, it is also held with a fork and cleaned with a knife. Potatoes "in uniform" can be eaten in another way: the tuber is cut into halves and then the flesh is removed from under the peel with a fork.
Whole potatoes are eaten by consumers in slices and not crushed on a plate.
Fried potatoes at the home and official table are eaten with a knife and fork. In fast food establishments - by hand.
Mashed potatoes are also eaten with a knife and fork: put on a fork, helping with a knife.
Asparagus is eaten with both hands and a special fork.
Sausage, ham
Sausages and ham are served on the table peeled, cut into slices. From a common dish, slices are taken and transferred to their plate with a common fork. If the sausage turned out to be unpeeled, then cut each slice on your plate with a knife, holding it with a fork.
The skins are not removed from the served hot sausages "spikachek" immediately, but gradually, as you eat, so that the dish does not cool down.
Also, the skin of liver sausage is gradually cut off, because. if this sausage is removed from the shell immediately, it will look very ugly. To clean the liver sausage, a piece of it is pressed with a fork to a plate, then an incision is made with a knife from the inside and then the skin is removed with a knife.
Dry sausage is eaten with the skin on. You can also eat without cleaning hunting sausages, thin-skinned sausages. But if the skin on sausages is thick, then it is still better to clean it so as not to have further problems with digestion.
Pate
At the formal table, pates are eaten with a fork, separating the pieces.
At the home table, it is allowed to spread pate on bread.
Eggs and scrambled eggs
Soft-boiled eggs (in a "pouch") are served in a special poached glass. First, the shell is slightly broken with a spoon and set aside in a saucer. Then carefully remove the top of the egg with a spoon, trying not to spill the yolk. The egg can be salted and flavored with butter. They eat such an egg with a spoon.
A hard-boiled egg is completely de-shelled. Then cut lengthwise into two halves and further divided into several pieces with a fork.
Fried eggs and scrambled eggs with pieces of ham are eaten with a fork. She is held in her right hand. Holding a piece of bread in the left hand
who can help pick up the scrambled eggs in the fork.Fried eggs are eaten with a spoon, fork and knife. A spoon is needed to eat the yolk. Protein is eaten with a knife and fork. If it is too thin, it can be folded in two layers to better hold on the fork.
Cheese
Usually a set of several types of cheese is served on the table. You can sample a few of them.
Hard cheeses are cut with a knife and eaten with a dessert fork.
Soft cheeses (including processed cheese) are spread with a knife on bread and butter.
Cheese served with syrup, fruit or yogurt is eaten with a spoon.
Sauce
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Mustard, salt, pepper
Mustard, as well as salt, is taken with special spoons.
Mustard is placed on the bottom of the plate on the right side, not on the edge.
Do not use salt and pepper before the dish is tasted
Dessert
Dessert dishes are eaten both with hands and with the help of special devices.
For example, hard almond and walnut cakes, dry cakes that crumble easily, gingerbread, gingerbread are eaten with a hand. Pretzels and pretzels are also eaten with the help of hands: they are broken off by hand in small pieces by hand. From a bun stuffed with cream, jam or jam, as well as from coffee buns, consumers bite off, holding them in their hand. Pieces are broken off from the cookies and put into the mouth with the same hand.
They take sweets with their hands, put them on their plate, unfold them and then send them to their mouths.
Biscuit cakes and cakes are eaten with a special fork or teaspoon.
If the cake is in a paper socket, then it is placed on a plate along with the socket and then eaten from it.
Sweet dough is eaten with a special fork or spoon.
Fatty cupcakes are eaten with a dessert fork.
Puddings, ice cream, creams, jellies, mousses are eaten with a dessert spoon. Served with crackers, cookies, puff pastries, etc. take by hand.
Hot omelettes, pancakes, casseroles, etc. are eaten with a dessert fork held in the right hand. For cereals, a dessert spoon is served.
Fruit dumplings are eaten with a knife and fork.
Desserts in glasses are served with a small fork or spoon.
A teaspoon is used only for stirring tea. After use, it is placed on a saucer (do not leave in a glass or cup).
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positive impression? It is unlikely that he will like a girl who starts eating a chicken leg with her hands, shrimp cut with a knife, and I have never heard of a finger rinse. Read this article and at the table you You will be like a fish in water!How to eat bread and sandwiches
It is better not to cut bread with a knife, but to break off small pieces from a piece taken from a bread box. More freely
According to the method of preparation, sandwiches are divided into three large groups:
open sandwiches are made from one slice of bread, spread with butter and put some seasoning on top.
Closed (sandwiches)
prepared from two slices of bread, between which various meat and vegetable products are placed. Own this type of sandwich got its name from the name of the Earl of Sandwich, who ate without leaving the card table, and therefore, for convenience, covered sandwiches were brought to him.puff sandwiches consist of several large slices of bread stacked together, each of which is put meat, chicken pieces, cheese, pâté, etc.
Sandwiches and sandwiches are taken by hand if they are served with drinks before the start of dinner. It is desirable that the size
sandwich or sandwich was small, then it can be eaten in 1-2 meals, which is certainly more convenient when eating standing. If the sandwich is large or you are offered a multi-story "club" puff sandwich, then it is more convenient eat sitting at the table with a diner fork and knife.How to eat soups
Broths and light soups can be served either in a single or double-handled bowl or in a soup bowl. broths from
If soup meat, previously cut into pieces, is served on a dish, then it must be transferred to your
plate, crush with a knife and fork, and then pour the soup.They eat this dish according to the rules of etiquette at the table like this: they scoop up a small portion with a tablespoon (from themselves, by
diagonally from right to left), after which, after touching the bottom of the spoon on the far edge of the plate, they bring to the mouth. To avoid unpleasant sounds while eating, it is necessary to raise the spoon to the level of the mouth, and not lean towards her.Is it possible, according to the rules of etiquette at the table, to finish the soup to the end? At ceremonial and official public feasts it's better not to. In a less formal setting, the soup can be eaten by tilting the plate for convenience, and in any side, and not just "on my own", as is commonly believed.
How to eat meat dishes
Meat dishes can be conditionally divided into two groups: minced meat dishes (cutlets, zrazy, etc.) and dishes
According to the classical method, meat dishes should be eaten without laying down the knife and fork for a minute, cutting off
large piece of meat piece by piece. This version of the table etiquette rule is considered more secular.Chicken dishes, many believe, you need to eat with your hands. Unfortunately, this is a fairly common misconception.
Etiquette strictly prescribes the use of a knife and fork for this, although in some cases you can help yourself. fingertips. If you need to eat a chicken foot. First, we clean the bone from the meat with a table knife. and forks: with a fork turned with the teeth down, hold the foot on the plate, and with a knife carefully cut the meat into thin in slices until it is as free from the bone as possible.Now let's think about the finger rinse. In the event that the rinsing bowl (small porcelain or
a glass bowl of water into which a slice of lemon is thrown) is served on the table, you can set aside the cutlery and, taking fingertips chicken bone with the remnants of meat, finish it. After that, you should lower your fingertips into rinse - water with lemon juice will quickly cleanse them of chicken fat and eliminate the specific smell. IN some restaurants serve wet wipes on a tray instead of rinses. In addition, on the ends of chicken papillots are often put on paper caps ("papilots"), which allows you not to get your fingers dirty when eating leftovers meat on the bone. If the above "devices" are not served, a bone with the remains of meat, which it is no longer possible to cut with a knife and fork, it is advisable to leave it on a plate according to the rules of etiquette at the table.
Sausage- it should be eaten according to the rules of etiquette at the table in the same way as lumpy meat - with a knife and fork
Pate, served as an independent dish, it is better to eat with a snack fork or a dessert spoon. Besides,
it is allowed to spread pate on toast (pieces of bread lightly dried in a toaster). For this, a small a portion of the pate is placed on the edge of the plate, after which it is spread with a personal snack knife on bread, which held by the fingers of the left hand on the plate, and not kept by weight. Toast with pate lying on a plate rules of etiquette at the table eat with a knife and fork.How to eat spaghetti
Italians only eat spaghetti with a fork. Foreigners sometimes resort to the help of a spoon held in their left hand,
Lasagna and cannelloni - Italian noodle dishes in the form of a wide ribbon, which are baked with cheese in the oven, it is better to eat with a fork and knife. Avocados are eaten with a coffee spoon. The fetus is held with the left hand for the peel, and the pulp is separated with a spoon in small portions. Sometimes the pulp is cut out, divided into small portions and placed again in a cleaned empty shell (peel). In this case, the pulp is also eaten with a coffee spoon. In the same way, avocados are eaten with different seasonings and toppings. This vegetable has a very bitter skin that trying not to hurt.
How to eat potatoes and other vegetables
Potato Dishes also eat differently. Potatoes are not cut with a knife. Boiled potatoes, according to the rules of etiquette at the table, cannot be cut into pieces with a knife and even more so crushed with a fork, turning into a puree (this is a completely different dish). Such potatoes are eaten by breaking off pieces with the edge of a fork.
Potatoes baked in aluminum foil are served on a small plate. Butter is served separately, sometimes sour cream or cottage cheese with spices. In this case, the device additionally served with a small spoon. Potatoes in foil can be eaten in two ways:either opening and freeing the potatoes from the foil (the foil folds like an accordion), cut or break in half, after cutting, spread the pulp on a plate with a fork and seasonings are added to it; either hold the potato in the left hand, without removing the foil, and scrape out the peeled one from the top with a spoon potato pulp, adding seasonings.
Potato fritters eat with two forks.
Fried potatoes and french fries, which are usually a side dish for hot meat dishes, it is convenient to eat with using a knife and fork (canteens, of course). With a fork, held with the prongs down, pierce the potato strips on a plate, and then with the help of a knife they plant it deeper, after which they bring it to the mouth.
Puree eat with a knife and fork. On a fork turned with the teeth up, a small portion of mashed potatoes is applied with a knife, then brought to the mouth.
polka dots 2-3 peas should be pricked on the fork, holding it in the left hand, then on the concave part of the fork dial a few more and try to send it all into your mouth. You can make it easier: on a fork, like on a spoon, pick up peas and bring it to your mouth, then return the fork to the correct position.
corn on the cob they take both ends with their hands and tear the grains from it with their teeth. Hard core in food use.
Olives (olives) are a side dish for many dishes, as well as an appetizer for a cocktail. In the first case, they can eat both with a fork and with your hand, the bones are removed from the mouth with your fingers, and then placed on the edge of the plate. When olives (olives) are strung on skewers and served with cocktails, then they are taken by hand, and empty skewers are put on plate.
mixed salads, that is, poured with sauces, eaten, as a rule, with a fork. Fragile green leaf lettuce served whole leaves on a separate plate and without sauce. It is allowed to eat with your hands, biting off a little.
asparagus can be taken by hand, holding the inedible end. If it is served with sauce, then to separate the tender part from the harder end of the stem, it is more convenient to use a fork, which can then be used to divide the asparagus into pieces and dip in the sauce.
radish eat with hands. It is dipped in salt, which is first poured onto the edge of their plate (or sprinkled salt from the salt shaker and bite off). It is strictly forbidden to lower the radish into the common salt shaker.
The rest of the vegetables, as a rule, are served already cut, so they need to be eaten in portions using cutlery.
How to eat seafood
Fish, served whole, is considered one of the most difficult dishes to eat. Marinated or lightly salted herring, hot or cold smoked fish, eel are quite hard foods and therefore require using a regular diner knife and fork. Stewed, boiled, fried fish is eaten with the help of a special fish tool.
According to the rules of etiquette at the table, a fish knife is not cut in the literal sense of the word, but the pieces are separated and pushed aside fillet. You can eat fish not with the help of special devices, but with two table forks: a fork that is held in with the right hand, they remove the fillet from the bones, and with a fork, which is held in the left, they bring it to the mouth. Small bones in the fillet can only be found in the mouth. According to the rules of etiquette at the table, they are taken out with a fork and stack on the far edge of the plate.
caviar served in glassware placed in a silver or cupronickel vase with crushed ice. In particular On solemn occasions, ice vases are frozen in molds and caviar is served in them. Croutons rely on caviar. Caviar is placed on croutons with a spatula or spoon and eat them, picking them up. More often caviar - granular or pressed - is eaten with butter. Therefore, they take both on a plate. Taking to the left hand a piece of bread, and a knife - in the right, spread a little butter on the bread with it, and caviar on it. Prepared a small sandwich with the left hand is sent to the mouth.
In Russian, caviar is eaten like this: together with seasonings, put on pancakes and eat with the help of a dessert appliance.
If you have oysters in front of you. To open the shell, put it on a plate, turning the convex part away from you, and open it with an oyster fork. Holding the shell with the thumb and forefinger of the left hand, the cutting part of the oyster fork is removed an oyster place that is inedible. Then they eat the oyster, sprinkling it with lemon juice. Juice formed in deepening the shell, drink or gently and silently suck the oyster out of the shell along with the juice. crackers, served with oysters, dipped in sauce, then taken with an oyster fork and eaten. Cold oysters are eaten with a dessert utensil, and hot (warm) oysters are eaten with a cutlery.
Shrimps served in broth are eaten whole if they are small. Large shrimps are separated with a fork, holding the plate with your left hand. The knife is not used. The shrimp cocktail is eaten by skewering a clam fork. Oriental fried shrimp are taken for the most the tip of the tail with chopsticks or hands and, dipped in sauce, bite off, and the tip of the tail is discarded. Unpeeled shrimp are taken by the head with the left hand and, having twisted the tail fin with the right hand, remove it with a fork meat. And in this case, bowls of warm water are also needed to rinse the fingers.
crayfish it is difficult to eat with a fork and knife, so it remains only to resort to the help of your own fingers. But take care of napkins in advance.
If you have mussels in front of you. In most cases, mussels are served marinated or smoked on cocktail sticks as an appetizer. WITH using sticks they are sent directly to the mouth. Mussels are also an ingredient in such dishes as paella. This dish is served with special tongs for opening shells and a small fork for oysters. With tweezers in the left hand, hold the mussel on plate, and with a fork they pick out the mollusk from the shell. It is much more convenient, and quite acceptable, to use sinks as small scoops.
Take shell with your right hand and, bringing it to your mouth, carefully draw in the mussel and sauce (without noise). empty shells can be left on the edge of the plate, on a plate for butter or a plate specially set for this purpose.
Bon appetit to you and let everything go like clockwork at dinner in the restaurant!
Do you hold a fork in your left hand and a knife in your right hand, skillfully cut a pineapple and gracefully eat apricots and peaches served at a buffet table? Do you know how eat bread right without which not a single feast can do, whether it be home gatherings or a business dinner?
Concerning of bread, it should be recalled that this is a very delicate product, one might even say that there is a “bread etiquette” of its own. For example, it is not customary to bite off a whole piece of bread. It is eaten in small pieces, which are broken off over their plate. It is also not customary to butter a whole piece of bread. This is best done by gradually breaking off pieces and buttering each of them.
If there is a pie plate next to you, which is specially designed for bread, then put it in it, shifting the bread from the common plate. Butter is also put into a pie plate with a clean knife, which is then spread on slices of bread.
They do the same with caviar, only for caviar there is a device - a special spatula. Pate can be taken either with a knife or a fork. Sandwiches are also taken by hand. If they are prepared for a snack, then they are eaten with a knife and fork.
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