How to set the table - Anna Post
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Can't remember where your soup spoon ought to go? What about your salad fork? Knowing how to set a traditional table can seem like antiquated etiquette -- but it can come in handy! Anna Post, great-great-granddaughter of etiquette expert Emily Post, shows how to set a table with a plate full of tips and tricks to boot (even your grandmother will be impressed).
Lesson by Anna Post, animation by TED-Ed.
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.
Useful! Many don't know this and it's always a nice refresher for those who do know.
Yeah!
"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.
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.
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.'
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...?
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.
Thanks, that's pretty cool.
The more you know.
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.
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 love the intro so much better then the new ones
Very simple and nice
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
Etiquette and the study of social interactions during mealtime can actually be very very interesting material
Tq for this video.
It was a great helpful for my interview.
Thank you I don’t usually set a complete table but It’s nice to once in a while do it
Thank you! So helpful for thanksgiving dinner
Very helpful. Thanks
Thanks for the video.
This was very informative and interesting thank you.
Very education, thank you Anna Post
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
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.
I have watched this in e right tym of me planning to start up a restaurant thnx for sharing
Thank you
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. :)
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!
Can you do a: how to eat with hands video... Feeling left out☹️
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.
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.
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 had this played in class recently. Didn't expect this channel, somehow.
now we eat the cloth?
*can you confirm production?*
+Danillo Rodrigues im crying
Danillo Rodrigues yes
Awesome! Great Refresher!👍
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.
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...
Setting the table used to be a simple American tradition in families every night. Thanks for posting this.
all I need are my hands, a banana leaf to eat anything.. plus a glass of water
really helpful for my practical :)
You're the best💯
You teach and explain very well❤
I would have no clue where to find a fork when eating without this video
It's a little sad that we need videos like this. lol
Tysm ❤ this really helped me i had to learn this you made it so easy ty😢😊
Thanks
I feel so fancy!
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.
wait wait wait wait hold up..... Salad knife?
LOL
lol
NSDP some women (specially older ones) cut their lettuce
lol!
NSDP I know
Here is one thing some restaurants forget: the table is set perfectly.
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But there are finger marks everywhere and the cutlery still has bits of food attached. Or the table has not been wiped properly.
*thanks* 🙂
Wow that’s beautiful I like it
It helped me a lot
Great explanation☺👏👏👌
What about the different wine glasses? First to the right? Port glass against the water glass?
Lovely!💖
This was nice
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 remember doing this a lot as a kid
Thank you!
0:33 who would set a table like that?! Other than that weird Clip, very informative! :-)
Me before watching the video? ; )
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!
Thankyou for sharing i need this video to pass my F&B test thanks :)
Thank you!!
Good job
Thanks expert Emily Post .That's absolutely important in reality and for a complete education.
Good.
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. ;)
lovely video :)
no its not
lmao
Yes, very simple, informative and to the point.
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.
cool info
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.
The right hander bias is this video is craaazzzyy hahahaah
Would it be backwards for lefties? Like, the knifes would be on the other side?
yes
No, there is one style for all. European and American, lefties or righties.
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?
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.
I don't think handedness has much to do with what hand you use utensils in. It seems to just be taught. Apparently you are supposed to use forks with your off hand and I had no clue (I use my main hand). All this stuff in this video about which hand to use seems random.
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!)
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.
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?
SALUTE LANG AKO SA TAO NG KUWAIT PURO KAMAY SILA KONG KUMAIN WOW TALAGA
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.
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
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.
Why so many dislikes? The top comment is "first world problems"? This is whats wrong with my generation, there is nothing wrong with good manners. Somehow this simple helpful information is below you?
1) take your food (if you have any)
2) put it on the table (if you have any)
3) eat
i wouldnt even say it was a problem. its just posh people have nothing to worry about so they make things up such as cutlery arrangements
Im here for my project 😭😂
Same
No one:
My English teacher: "k, write a 3 minute essay that resembles this video on how to do something. Oh, btw, you need to memorize it. And I'll give you 5 class periods to finish 😁"
Me at 11:00pm the night before it's due: fufufufufufu-
wow really necessity
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.
i dont think that the way you arranged the glass is right since we need to pour the water to the glass which has less height by crossing the wine glass with height. when doing so there is often chance that the water may spill. if we place the water glass first which has less height we can easly pour wine to the glass crossing the water glass which dosn't couse any obstacle. thank you
How do you set the table for a left-hander?
+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
i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good
How far apart is the minimum space required between one place setting and the next to your left .
Why thank you
thnq so much
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.
I learned to set the table this way from my mother