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Important Tips in Handling Table Equipments |
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by Gloria Karlos, May 31, 2008 |
These will help you have an enjoyable and accident-free meal. |
- Place the napkin on your lap.
- Use the napkin, as needed, to touch your mouth lightly with a blotting motion.
- When cutting food, hold the knife and fork.
- When carrying food to your mouth, hold the fork properly.
- When not in use, keep the knife across the plate.
- Use a teaspoon for soft foods, holding it in the same manner as you do the fork.
- Cut salad foods with the fork whenever possible. Use a knife only when the food is difficult to cut with a fork.
- Place the soup spoon, beverage spoon, and desert spoon.
- Use the service tableware when you serve yourself from a serving dish-never use your own tableware.
- Pass food that is in a serving dish with a handle so that the handle id toward the person to whom the dish is passed.
- Never play with the tableware.
- When lifting a goblet, hold it at the base of the bowl.
- Lift a beverage cup by its handle with one hand. Never hold it in two hands when drinking.
- When passing plates, be careful not to put your thumb on the side of the plate or to touch any of the food on the plate.
- Leave used dishes in place at the end of the meal. Do not push them away from you, and don't stack them.
- When you are through eating, place the knife and fork in the center of the plate.
- At the end of the meal, lay the napkin on the table at the left of your plate, folded if at home, and unfold neatly if you are a guest.
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