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What are the utensils for Western food?

Common Western utensils:

Knives: Types of knives include butter knives, fish knives, dessert knives, table knives and steak knives.

Forks: Forks are divided into pastry forks, seafood forks, dessert forks and dinner forks.

Spoons: There are many types of spoons, the common ones are ice teaspoons, serving spoons, dessert spoons, clear spoons, coffee/teaspoons and small cup coffee spoons.

Special tableware: set according to the dishes, common ones include lobster skewers, lobster forks, snail forks, oyster forks, and snail tongs.

Commonly used utensils for Western food: standing warm plates, oval warm plates, large soup bowls, food basins, wine baskets, bread baskets, and gravy boat basins.

Western tableware: coffee pot/tea cup and saucer, small coffee cup and saucer, milk jug, sugar bowl, ashtray, coffee pot, teapot, vase, coffee/tea filter, main course Plate, fish plate, soup plate, soup cup, candle holder, pepper shaker, salt shaker.

Commonly used serving utensils for Western food: sugar tongs, ice tongs, macaroni tongs, pastry tongs, serving spoons (with slots), serving forks, cake knives, cake serving spoons, table brushes, meat cutting forks, Carving knives and boning steel knives.

What types of Western wine glasses are there:

Whiskey small glasses and short glasses: relatively small glass glasses with a capacity of 40 ml.

Hippo cup: a medium-high round glass with a capacity of about 140-240 ml.

Collins cup: a tall round glass with a capacity of about 300-350 ml, usually frozen before use.

Classic cup: a wide-mouthed short cup with a capacity of about 180 ml.

Cocktail glass: Capacity is about 120ml, funnel-shaped stemware.

Sour wine glass: A slender tulip flower-shaped wine glass with a capacity of about 120 ml.

Brandy glass: a large balloon-shaped wine glass with a capacity of about 240 ml and a short base.

Lijiu wine glass: a slender tulip-shaped wine glass with a capacity of about 30 ml and feet.

The correct way to use knives and forks:

When using knives and forks, you should hold the knife in your right hand and the fork in your left hand. Cut the food into small pieces and then put it into your mouth with the knife and fork.

When eating, the plate is in the middle, so the knife and spoon are placed on the right side of the plate, and the fork is placed on the left.

When placing knives and forks on the table, there should generally be no more than three pairs at most. For set meals of more than three courses, new knives and forks must be placed after the dishes are served.

Knives and forks are used in order from the outside to the inside.

When eating, the left and right hands usually cooperate with each other, that is, a knife and a fork are used in pairs.

Knives and forks have different specifications, and their sizes are also different according to different uses:

When eating meat, regardless of whether you want to use a knife to cut it, you must use a large knife .

Use a medium knife when eating salads, desserts, or hors d'oeuvres.

The fork or spoon generally varies with the size of the knife. When drinking soup, use a large spoon, and when drinking coffee and eating ice cream, use a small spoon.

Do not pierce food into the mouth with a fork, but shovel the food into the mouth.

If you don’t need a knife to eat a certain dish, you can also hold a fork in your right hand, such as pasta. If there are no large pieces of meat to cut, and only vegetables and non-staple food that do not need to be cut, it stands to reason that you can eat with the fork in your right hand.

When speaking or talking, it is etiquette to place the knife and fork on the plate. It’s also a sign of respect for the person next to you.

Note

If the plate is empty, if you still want to continue eating, spread your knife and fork apart, roughly in a triangle shape, then the waiter will not take your plate away.

When you have finished eating, you can place the knife and fork parallel to each other on the same side of the plate.

If the plate is empty but you still want to eat, spread your knife and fork apart in an approximately figure-eight shape, and the waiter will add more food to you. But this only applies at banquets where additional food is permitted or when eating the dish to which it may be added.

When eating Western food, it is taboo to use your own tableware to serve others.

Never point fingers while holding a knife and fork in your hand.

Forks and spoons can be put into the mouth, but knives cannot be put into the mouth, regardless of whether there is food on it. In addition to the etiquette requirements, the entrance of a knife is also dangerous.