The way you set your table is important, because it influences three things: It indicates the tone/feeling that people have about being together. It lets people know that you think they are important enough to put in extra effort for them. It influences the appearance of the food served. This video really gives us lots of ideas about setting a table.
Thanks TED for the collaboration of great educators and animators to create this lesson that is so worth sharing like how could I even imagine passing out of high school without this!! Thank you so much! You saved my life and I owe you one!! Keep making amazing videos like this and I wish you the best of luck! :)
i never learned any of these when i was younger and im so glad someone on the internet teaches this for free. i hope modern people nowadays learn back the old ways like this. its more interesting 😊
@@mikeoxmaul45 Ah, for me, both hands are all useful: I eat and drink with my left, and write (and use a mouse) with right. Everything works out, right...?
When I once learned to set the table, I always took out so many knives and forks, and because my family is Chinese, they would always be like 'Put it back, we're Chinese, and we eat with chopsticks.'
Excellent. I've made countless dinners for people and have only winged it. Finally, I watch your video and it's all clear. Btw, I never knew that it's either a table cloth or place mat but never both. I'd been making that mistake for years.
That makes sense! I was wondering why it would just be assumed that you'd use your off hand for your fork. I would only want my knifes on the right personally, even though if I'm doing knife work I use my left hand. Next time I eat a fancy meal I'm going to "fix" the layout, lol
Its all because the pitches who have money can’t remember anything so you make it as easy as you can for them to not messed it up big time by using the wrong cutlery for the wrong meal
If you get your hands on a full "fancy" silverware set, say, at a really fancy restaurant or as an heirloom or something, the salad forks tend to be smaller than the dinner forks. Anyway, you eat your salad with the "salad" silverware, whether it's actually smaller or not, then leave it on the plate. The butler or waiter or whoever's handling changing courses takes your plate, silverware and all, back to the kitchen and brings out the main course (or sometimes the soup), so you're going to want that second fork, whether it looks the same to you or not.
The Bread plate goes next to the forks and the napkin goes on the plate or middle of the setting, and you place or hold wine glasses by the stem... she put fingerprints on the glasses. The water glass goes first because that's the first thing you drink. unless wine is a priority, then you put a white wine glass first because that goes with the first course, and a red wine glass next that goes with the main course... (I worked in restaurants for years) I'm not a snob that's just how it's done. :)
l am a home health nurse and work with some wealthy patients. They are very sweet old money type and like teaching youngins like me. One of them was teaching how to set up a table and mentioned how this simple skill can elevate you as home health nurse in that area. l agree!! l never thought of that!! its the little things that matter.
The knife's position is related to handedness, as historically one used their personal day-to-day knife when eating, so the fork's position on the table is related to your off-hand. Nowadays it could be related to "taught" but those who are sinister or left-hand-preference ambidextrous will "invert" the layout to suit what is more natural to them. I was "taught" right-hand-knife, but always swapped to left-hand-knife even if "corrected", it drove some folks nuts.
Pretty sure that's a dessert spoon and not a soup spoon ( soup spoon is rounded ) and the little one is a tea spoon used for sugaring your t and stirring ...
toni hall yes, you're correct .. and the salad fork is usually smaller and a bit wider than the main fork.. and only one knife unless one is a steak knife.. there is no such thing as a salad knife either.. ask Emily!
the appetizer fork and knife are traditionally smaller than the dinner fork and knife. Also, if there is no dinner plate set already, the bread plate goes left of the forks.
I'm pretty sure the setting stays the same, but this video presumes everyone eats continental style (the fork staying in the left hand). However, some of us eat American style and switch back and forth with the fork, so, "because that's the hand you use the utensil with" isn't a hard and fast guideline. ;)
Indeed. In Germany and Italy is not uncommon to eat soup after the main dish, especially if it is a cold soup or a cream soup. That would make the arrangement slightly different.
Why not? Those from Asian countries like me are not quite familiar with European table etiquette and this sure is very helpful. And it's good to be educated in such matters.
I was hoping this was going to be an explanation of how this crazy complicated table setting etiquette evolved. Give us some history, ya know? Plus, what right handed person eats from a fork with their left hand? The only time I've ever eaten with my left hand was when my right wrist was shattered & I about put my eye out. I know the video maker didn't make that silly rule but it's still silly.
I've seen guys like that at the job site, car full of fast food bags and garbage, but not the majority for sure. I bring my lunch and when I get home, we sit at a table and eat food, but the talking slows us down. I think it helps digestion too. All my friends hate (with a passion) fast food, they have kids too. And they eat at those table things, with chairs. I think this plating is for dinner parties, with guests. Usually 1 fork, knife, glass and a spoon comes out with dessert. Yes, in the US.
One major problem I have with the "default" layout - you gotta flip the damn layout yourself if you're left-handed (or ambidextrous, with left-hand preference) as folks don't think to ask if you're left-handed or right-handed with utensils like knifes, and just assume everyone is gonna be right-handed. (yes, I ~AM~ sinister, or left-handed, TYVM!)
Here is one thing some restaurants forget: the table is set perfectly. ... But there are finger marks everywhere and the cutlery still has bits of food attached. Or the table has not been wiped properly.
I understand. I think a lot of people were mad because this video is not what they expect out of TED. I'm guessing much of their audience doesn't and never will eat like this.
A soup spoon is round, not the dessert spoon shown here. the entree fork and knife and usually smaller as well and the butter knife is the same as the entree knife.
i like the video. but it really based on the cultural. Asia, we use also chopstick or hand or maybe just spoon and fork... here some suggestion: You could add on the title like "European style"
Then, clearly, commenting on this video shouldn't be a priority either? Hogs are free to keep slurping at the trough - the video was aimed at those interested in learning a few basic pointers - no judgement, no force... and really, these are very basic things - it doesn't cost anything, not even an effort.
When i think about the working efficiency of CPU, i think the cost (salary to pay processor for help us) we pay to buy CPU (especially the processor) is not enough... i mean the salary we given to cpu is very small... because it work multiple jobs very hard simultaneously...
In your car?? Well than the lack of eating culture in America was worse than I thought. I'm from europe and for us it's still normal to sit down with your family for every meal. Only lunch is sometimes on the go. So it doesn't really have to with modern age or anything. And yeah like you said in Japan it's even still more so where they even still wait for everyone to finish before leaving the table. Add to that that eating with chopsticks makes eating so much slower! xD
Here is an easy guide for how to set the table: 1. Place one plate on the table for every quest. 2. Place one fork on the plate (side doesn't matter, they can move it themselves). 3. Place one knife on the plate. 4. If serving a dessert, provide a spoon or fork with the dessert bowl/plate. 5. If someone wants additional equipment, tell them to get it their damn selves.
I don't know what restaurant you all eat at, but any place that has a separate fork and knife for SALAD is way above my pay grade. 1950 called they want their place settings back.
well, there's a correct side for the majority of people, though. i usually have to switch sides as well, but most don't have to, so there's some sense in doing so.
The way you set your table is important, because it influences three things: It indicates the tone/feeling that people have about being together. It lets people know that you think they are important enough to put in extra effort for them. It influences the appearance of the food served. This video really gives us lots of ideas about setting a table.
"Have you ever helped set a table and found yourself wondering where to place the forks?"
No.
haha
@@ThePinoyDrinker Can you guess where I'm from?
@@ThePinoyDrinker yes!
@@ThePinoyDrinker good guesser
Thanks TED for the collaboration of great educators and animators to create this lesson that is so worth sharing like how could I even imagine passing out of high school without this!! Thank you so much! You saved my life and I owe you one!! Keep making amazing videos like this and I wish you the best of luck! :)
So true.
Useful! Many don't know this and it's always a nice refresher for those who do know.
Yeah!
Another great way to remember placement of the utensils: FORK is LEFT (four letters), KNIFE/SPOON is RIGHT (five letters).
Wow very useful, thanks
Extra points if you accommodate the left handed guest and switch it all around.
i never learned any of these when i was younger and im so glad someone on the internet teaches this for free. i hope modern people nowadays learn back the old ways like this. its more interesting 😊
Great and very useful! It was amazing help for my school project on setting the table
😊😊
My school project is memorize it this video doesn t help me with that
Me: as a left-handed
Guess I'll stave
You can do it! Practice using your right hand. In a few months you'll be a fine ambidextrous lefty like me
Had to look at it opposite lol
@@mikeoxmaul45 Ah, for me, both hands are all useful:
I eat and drink with my left, and write (and use a mouse) with right. Everything works out, right...?
When I once learned to set the table, I always took out so many knives and forks, and because my family is Chinese, they would always be like 'Put it back, we're Chinese, and we eat with chopsticks.'
As soon as you walk into a house and the table is set like that you know you’re about to have a “relaxing” and “comfortable” dinner experience 😂
Excellent. I've made countless dinners for people and have only winged it. Finally, I watch your video and it's all clear. Btw, I never knew that it's either a table cloth or place mat but never both. I'd been making that mistake for years.
I love the intro so much better then the new ones
Thank you I don’t usually set a complete table but It’s nice to once in a while do it
I had this played in class recently. Didn't expect this channel, somehow.
The utensils can be doubled or tripled depending on which food or meal you will need. The most important thing is about its place arrangements.
Etiquette and the study of social interactions during mealtime can actually be very very interesting material
Thanks, that's pretty cool.
The more you know.
I would have no clue where to find a fork when eating without this video
That makes sense! I was wondering why it would just be assumed that you'd use your off hand for your fork. I would only want my knifes on the right personally, even though if I'm doing knife work I use my left hand. Next time I eat a fancy meal I'm going to "fix" the layout, lol
Setting the table used to be a simple American tradition in families every night. Thanks for posting this.
Thank you! So helpful for thanksgiving dinner
wait wait wait wait hold up..... Salad knife?
LOL
lol
NSDP some women (specially older ones) cut their lettuce
lol!
NSDP I know
Tq for this video.
It was a great helpful for my interview.
This was very informative and interesting thank you.
Thanks for the video, but i'm Indonesian, we are eating with hands.
😂😂
Not with gravy food right
I'm a pilipino and I'm also using hand while eating.. pft..
In India also
Irfan Prabowo ;---;
I hoped there would be some mathematical reasoing behind it.
Ya me too
Its all because the pitches who have money can’t remember anything so you make it as easy as you can for them to not messed it up big time by using the wrong cutlery for the wrong meal
Very education, thank you Anna Post
I have watched this in e right tym of me planning to start up a restaurant thnx for sharing
You're the best💯
You teach and explain very well❤
Tysm ❤ this really helped me i had to learn this you made it so easy ty😢😊
Very simple and nice
It's a little sad that we need videos like this. lol
Dinner forks AND salad forks? THEY LOOK THE SAME!!!!!!!
I REPEAT, THEY LOOK THE SAME!!!!!!!!!
IKR!!!
If you get your hands on a full "fancy" silverware set, say, at a really fancy restaurant or as an heirloom or something, the salad forks tend to be smaller than the dinner forks. Anyway, you eat your salad with the "salad" silverware, whether it's actually smaller or not, then leave it on the plate. The butler or waiter or whoever's handling changing courses takes your plate, silverware and all, back to the kitchen and brings out the main course (or sometimes the soup), so you're going to want that second fork, whether it looks the same to you or not.
What a funny comment, you say it like something is on fire. Lol
😂😂
They look the same but they are use in different. Be open minded!
very insightful! thank you very much!
+imthatghost this has helped me so much in my times of need
+ANiKAN2014 unlike candles im LIT ALL DA TIME
+imthatghost awww yiis, preach it
+ANiKAN2014 I love the intimacy between the dessert spoon and its user
+imthatghost I completely agree, i also love the use of the placemat or tablecloth to keep the dishes from touching the table directly.
all I need are my hands, a banana leaf to eat anything.. plus a glass of water
The Bread plate goes next to the forks and the napkin goes on the plate or middle of the setting, and you place or hold wine glasses by the stem... she put fingerprints on the glasses. The water glass goes first because that's the first thing you drink. unless wine is a priority, then you put a white wine glass first because that goes with the first course, and a red wine glass next that goes with the main course... (I worked in restaurants for years) I'm not a snob that's just how it's done. :)
Thanks for the video.
Awesome! Great Refresher!👍
l am a home health nurse and work with some wealthy patients. They are very sweet old money type and like teaching youngins like me. One of them was teaching how to set up a table and mentioned how this simple skill can elevate you as home health nurse in that area. l agree!! l never thought of that!! its the little things that matter.
Very helpful. Thanks
really helpful for my practical :)
Thankyou for sharing i need this video to pass my F&B test thanks :)
The knife's position is related to handedness, as historically one used their personal day-to-day knife when eating, so the fork's position on the table is related to your off-hand.
Nowadays it could be related to "taught" but those who are sinister or left-hand-preference ambidextrous will "invert" the layout to suit what is more natural to them.
I was "taught" right-hand-knife, but always swapped to left-hand-knife even if "corrected", it drove some folks nuts.
I feel so fancy!
It helped me a lot
Great explanation☺👏👏👌
The right hander bias is this video is craaazzzyy hahahaah
Pretty sure that's a dessert spoon and not a soup spoon ( soup spoon is rounded ) and the little one is a tea spoon used for sugaring your t and stirring ...
toni hall yes, you're correct .. and the salad fork is usually smaller and a bit wider than the main fork.. and only one knife unless one is a steak knife.. there is no such thing as a salad knife either.. ask Emily!
now we eat the cloth?
*can you confirm production?*
+Danillo Rodrigues im crying
Danillo Rodrigues yes
I remember doing this a lot as a kid
0:33 who would set a table like that?! Other than that weird Clip, very informative! :-)
Me before watching the video? ; )
the appetizer fork and knife are traditionally smaller than the dinner fork and knife. Also, if there is no dinner plate set already, the bread plate goes left of the forks.
I'm pretty sure the setting stays the same, but this video presumes everyone eats continental style (the fork staying in the left hand). However, some of us eat American style and switch back and forth with the fork, so, "because that's the hand you use the utensil with" isn't a hard and fast guideline. ;)
Wow that’s beautiful I like it
Indeed.
In Germany and Italy is not uncommon to eat soup after the main dish, especially if it is a cold soup or a cream soup.
That would make the arrangement slightly different.
My teacher asked me to remember this for the exam.
lovely video :)
no its not
lmao
Yes, very simple, informative and to the point.
I learned to set the table this way from my mother
Good job
This was nice
Can you do a: how to eat with hands video... Feeling left out☹️
Why not? Those from Asian countries like me are not quite familiar with European table etiquette and this sure is very helpful. And it's good to be educated in such matters.
Thank you
I was hoping this was going to be an explanation of how this crazy complicated table setting etiquette evolved. Give us some history, ya know?
Plus, what right handed person eats from a fork with their left hand? The only time I've ever eaten with my left hand was when my right wrist was shattered & I about put my eye out. I know the video maker didn't make that silly rule but it's still silly.
Im here for my project 😭😂
Same
I've seen guys like that at the job site, car full of fast food bags and garbage, but not the majority for sure. I bring my lunch and when I get home, we sit at a table and eat food, but the talking slows us down. I think it helps digestion too. All my friends hate (with a passion) fast food, they have kids too. And they eat at those table things, with chairs. I think this plating is for dinner parties, with guests. Usually 1 fork, knife, glass and a spoon comes out with dessert. Yes, in the US.
One major problem I have with the "default" layout - you gotta flip the damn layout yourself if you're left-handed (or ambidextrous, with left-hand preference) as folks don't think to ask if you're left-handed or right-handed with utensils like knifes, and just assume everyone is gonna be right-handed. (yes, I ~AM~ sinister, or left-handed, TYVM!)
Wow. I always use a fork/spoon and occasionally my hand when I can, even in a fancy dinner like this. I never use a knife while eating.
Wtf
Filipino?
Here is one thing some restaurants forget: the table is set perfectly.
...
But there are finger marks everywhere and the cutlery still has bits of food attached. Or the table has not been wiped properly.
SALUTE LANG AKO SA TAO NG KUWAIT PURO KAMAY SILA KONG KUMAIN WOW TALAGA
Lovely!💖
I understand. I think a lot of people were mad because this video is not what they expect out of TED. I'm guessing much of their audience doesn't and never will eat like this.
watched this before i set the table in lunch
1) take your food (if you have any)
2) put it on the table (if you have any)
3) eat
A soup spoon is round, not the dessert spoon shown here. the entree fork and knife and usually smaller as well and the butter knife is the same as the entree knife.
Instructions unclear, I ate the napkin.
Thank you!
i like the video. but it really based on the cultural. Asia, we use also chopstick or hand or maybe just spoon and fork... here some suggestion: You could add on the title like "European style"
Then, clearly, commenting on this video shouldn't be a priority either? Hogs are free to keep slurping at the trough - the video was aimed at those interested in learning a few basic pointers - no judgement, no force... and really, these are very basic things - it doesn't cost anything, not even an effort.
i just use my hands
+melnibone oeo I just use my face
you will make a mess...
+melnibone oeo Also do that... and i'm portuguese...
It's faster! and the food tastes better (at least for me...)
+Alex Stefanov (umnikos) you wouldn't make a mess if you know how to eat with hands
Thank you!!
Do you realize that if I was the only one setting a table like this, I'd be diagnosed with OCD and medicated?
*thanks* 🙂
I’m liking this video
I eat all my meals in front of my computer.
You forgot the charger, red wine glass and champagne flute.
cool info
When i think about the working efficiency of CPU, i think the cost (salary to pay processor for help us) we pay to buy CPU (especially the processor) is not enough... i mean the salary we given to cpu is very small... because it work multiple jobs very hard simultaneously...
I eat off a paper plate with a titanium spork.
In your car?? Well than the lack of eating culture in America was worse than I thought. I'm from europe and for us it's still normal to sit down with your family for every meal. Only lunch is sometimes on the go. So it doesn't really have to with modern age or anything. And yeah like you said in Japan it's even still more so where they even still wait for everyone to finish before leaving the table. Add to that that eating with chopsticks makes eating so much slower! xD
Here is an easy guide for how to set the table:
1. Place one plate on the table for every quest.
2. Place one fork on the plate (side doesn't matter, they can move it themselves).
3. Place one knife on the plate.
4. If serving a dessert, provide a spoon or fork with the dessert bowl/plate.
5. If someone wants additional equipment, tell them to get it their damn selves.
That butter knife is not gonna cut through a chicken nugget
I like using mnemonics. Thanks for pointing out B-M-W and A-I.
Help! A salad knife!
I don't know what restaurant you all eat at, but any place that has a separate fork and knife for SALAD is way above my pay grade. 1950 called they want their place settings back.
What about the different wine glasses? First to the right? Port glass against the water glass?
Perfect vid
well, there's a correct side for the majority of people, though.
i usually have to switch sides as well, but most don't have to, so there's some sense in doing so.
Thanks
Good