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.

@TV-zv5he

4 жыл бұрын

haha

@TV-zv5he

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThePinoyDrinker Can you guess where I'm from?

@TV-zv5he

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThePinoyDrinker yes!

@TV-zv5he

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThePinoyDrinker good guesser

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.'

Useful! Many don't know this and it's always a nice refresher for those who do know.

@pann7175

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah!

Another great way to remember placement of the utensils: FORK is LEFT (four letters), KNIFE/SPOON is RIGHT (five letters).

@SirinaX

Жыл бұрын

Wow very useful, thanks

Me: as a left-handed Guess I'll stave

@mikeoxmaul45

4 жыл бұрын

You can do it! Practice using your right hand. In a few months you'll be a fine ambidextrous lefty like me

@JasmineMelbourne

4 жыл бұрын

Had to look at it opposite lol

@SleepyPanda-co3iy

3 жыл бұрын

@@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...?

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! :)

@sharonmatheka4164

Жыл бұрын

So true.

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 😂

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 😊

Tq for this video. It was a great helpful for my interview.

Great and very useful! It was amazing help for my school project on setting the table

@nikitaromi6147

7 жыл бұрын

😊😊

@yagzbakr5554

2 жыл бұрын

My school project is memorize it this video doesn t help me with that

This was very informative and interesting thank you.

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.

Thank you! So helpful for thanksgiving dinner

You're the best💯 You teach and explain very well❤

Thanks, that's pretty cool. The more you know.

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.

I hoped there would be some mathematical reasoing behind it.

@briannab4037

7 жыл бұрын

Ya me too

@Yusufsanad

6 жыл бұрын

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

Thank you I don’t usually set a complete table but It’s nice to once in a while do it

all I need are my hands, a banana leaf to eat anything.. plus a glass of water

Very education, thank you Anna Post

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

Awesome! Great Refresher!👍

Etiquette and the study of social interactions during mealtime can actually be very very interesting material

I love the intro so much better then the new ones

very insightful! thank you very much!

@ANiKAN2014

8 жыл бұрын

+imthatghost this has helped me so much in my times of need

@Imthatghost9000

8 жыл бұрын

+ANiKAN2014 unlike candles im LIT ALL DA TIME

@ANiKAN2014

8 жыл бұрын

+imthatghost awww yiis, preach it

@Imthatghost9000

8 жыл бұрын

+ANiKAN2014 I love the intimacy between the dessert spoon and its user

@ANiKAN2014

8 жыл бұрын

+imthatghost I completely agree, i also love the use of the placemat or tablecloth to keep the dishes from touching the table directly.

really helpful for my practical :)

Thanks for the video, but i'm Indonesian, we are eating with hands.

@Ivycassey

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@emwepw6373

5 жыл бұрын

Not with gravy food right

@uttosameraa.1610

5 жыл бұрын

I'm a pilipino and I'm also using hand while eating.. pft..

@rajeshsahani6851

4 жыл бұрын

In India also

@Linqfae.

4 жыл бұрын

Irfan Prabowo ;---;

I have watched this in e right tym of me planning to start up a restaurant thnx for sharing

Thank you!

wait wait wait wait hold up..... Salad knife?

@umnikos

8 жыл бұрын

LOL

@ppapggwp1545

7 жыл бұрын

lol

@jackylnhyde

6 жыл бұрын

NSDP some women (specially older ones) cut their lettuce

@thedaphneythomas6468

6 жыл бұрын

lol!

@emmalinevlogs6352

6 жыл бұрын

NSDP I know

Thank you!!

Great explanation☺👏👏👌

Thanks for the video.

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 ...

@danielsmith8171

9 жыл бұрын

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!

Very helpful. Thanks

It helped me a lot

Tysm ❤ this really helped me i had to learn this you made it so easy ty😢😊

now we eat the cloth? *can you confirm production?*

@lt9026

8 жыл бұрын

+Danillo Rodrigues im crying

@rushikeshkolapkar2239

6 жыл бұрын

Danillo Rodrigues yes

lovely video :)

@switazu5461

3 жыл бұрын

no its not lmao

@paxsmile

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, very simple, informative and to the point.

Thank you

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.

Good job

The right hander bias is this video is craaazzzyy hahahaah

I remember doing this a lot as a kid

Can you do a: how to eat with hands video... Feeling left out☹️

thank u that help me :)

I had this played in class recently. Didn't expect this channel, somehow.

I would have no clue where to find a fork when eating without this video

My teacher asked me to remember this for the exam.

Thankyou for sharing i need this video to pass my F&B test thanks :)

Lovely!💖

I learned to set the table this way from my mother

*thanks* 🙂

This was nice

I feel so fancy!

Dinner forks AND salad forks? THEY LOOK THE SAME!!!!!!! I REPEAT, THEY LOOK THE SAME!!!!!!!!!

@briannab4037

7 жыл бұрын

IKR!!!

@Anastas1786

7 жыл бұрын

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.

@atrudokht

6 жыл бұрын

What a funny comment, you say it like something is on fire. Lol

@Ivycassey

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@appleorquita569

5 жыл бұрын

They look the same but they are use in different. Be open minded!

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.

cool info

Thanks

Thanks expert Emily Post .That's absolutely important in reality and for a complete education.

I want to know what's name this napkin which one has used on the plate please tell me anyone

would the left handed people or vice versa have to have each their own hand set up. so with this set up you would change the utensils for each person if they are left or right handed - would that work, or do they just change it themselves

@CobaltHanna

7 жыл бұрын

I actually said the exact same thing in reply to another comment on this video but my father is left-handed and he holds his cutlery the same way round as most right-handed people. Other left-handed people probably don't, though.

Setting the table used to be a simple American tradition in families every night. Thanks for posting this.

How do you set the table for a left-hander?

@overmangaming4253

8 жыл бұрын

+amateurmodder1 do every thing on the opposite side. Forks on the right knifes on the left soup spoon on the left dessert fork/spoon handle towards the left water/wine glasses to the left bread plate to the right and there a four course meal for leftys

How far apart is the minimum space required between one place setting and the next to your left .

what do you use to toss the salad?

Wow that’s beautiful I like it

Perfect vid

i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

Plz breakfast table setting with tea share Kare. Thks.

0:33 who would set a table like that?! Other than that weird Clip, very informative! :-)

@SleepyPanda-co3iy

3 жыл бұрын

Me before watching the video? ; )

It's a little sad that we need videos like this. lol

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. :)

Would it be backwards for lefties? Like, the knifes would be on the other side?

@alwinpriven2400

7 жыл бұрын

yes

@Annie-cy6pi

6 жыл бұрын

No, there is one style for all. European and American, lefties or righties.

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.

Good.

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.

@dimitriosglous4156

4 жыл бұрын

Wtf

@1517the_year

Жыл бұрын

Filipino?

Tell me the size of this cover plz....

Is this dinner, breakfast, or lunch table setting?

wow really necessity

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...

thnq so much

thank you we gkt first place in cooking in my class we where 96% and i was asigned to do the table so this helped alot and second place had 95% that was a close call! and third place had 86% wich is low tho and after i setted the table i actually just sat down lol!😂 p.s. thank you so much!😀 p.s.swe made a life supply of our food XD

Instructions unclear, I ate the napkin.

Me who’s eaten all of my food already and this dude is still setting his table :/

What about the different wine glasses? First to the right? Port glass against the water glass?

I eat all my meals in front of my computer.

How do you set the table for a left handed diner?

Good

I'm dyslexic and have enough trouble keeping my right and left straight. So even If I do manage to remember that the fork goes on the left, I'll still put it on the wrong side.

Im here for my project 😭😂

@siomaurice

3 жыл бұрын

Same

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.

Do you realize that if I was the only one setting a table like this, I'd be diagnosed with OCD and medicated?

I am already familiar with table setting placement but I would like to ask why is it not acceptable to use placemats on top of a tablecloth?

What if I'm just eating bread straight from the bag...?

Why If u bundle it won't last for long at all So why is it a mistake or that's all

how to download this video?

Why thank you