You put your knife and fork side by side across the plate.
In some social gatherings or in high end restaurants the butter knife goes to the right and then the regular knife. On the left outer side the small salad fork and then the regular fork for eating your dinner. Remember: Work from the outside in towards your plate.
The knives are always on the right of the plate, blade in, the forks on the left.
Because the Knife was created before the Fork.
Fork and knife
Left. While this is correct, it's counter -intuitive , as most people are right-handed. This persists as an affectation of superior social graces, and feel this out-moded custom is overdue for retirement.
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Cross your knife and fork on the center of your dinner plate to signal you are finished with that course.
In a most basic setting, on the left, between the napkin and the plate would ordinarily be the fork. In a broader setting, still referred to as a 'basic' setting, there may be a salad fork to the left of the luncheon fork or dinner fork. So, as a simple setting to visualise from right to left would be: Spoon, Knife (with blade facing the plate), Plate, Fork, Napkin. Above the spoon and knife would be a water glass and above the napkin and fork might be a butter plate, with butter knife, (handle facing towards the plate, and blade facing downward).
A typical table setting for one person includes a dinner plate in the center, with a fork on the left and a knife and spoon on the right. A water glass is placed above the knife, and a napkin is usually folded or placed to the left of the fork.
* It is far better to use your knife to direct the peas to your fork. Scooping food up (even gravy) with bread or a bun when out at a person's house for dinner or at a restaurant is poor etiquette.
In a standard Western or European setting the knife goes to the immediate right of the plate with the cutting side of the blade facing toward the plate, and the fork (or forks) go to the left of the plate; with the dinner fork closest to the plate and forks for other course to the left in such wise as the fork for the first course is on the outside, Hence the rule of thumb, when unsure of which fork to use, start at the outside and work in.