now I have anxiety because I know for a fact that if somebody switched to them I’d be annoyed but I have no idea what order they’re in so I have to go look

I am the exact opposite of you, mainly because my utensil organizer has the largest compartments on the left, so that’s where butter knives and chopsticks go. Also forks are in the middle because I use them less frequently than spoons.

I bought a drawer organizer and then put the utensils in the slots they fit best in.

Useing a dividing tray:

Chopsticks - Table Spoon - Tea Spoon - Butterknives - other

We have it the same as you. I never really gave it any thought.

You guys organize your utensils?

(/s btw:-P)

I got half my spoons, forks, and knifes in a separator. Everything else goes into the overflow/non conforming heap.

My psychopath ex-wife took out the separator and just dumped them all in at random. Only one of the reasons she’s my ex.

Well, since I have a prefab divided organizer, I use what it came with: knives, forks, teaspoons, tablespoons, smaller forks. Now, in our case, we have table and salad forks, though the salad forks we have lack the dedicated “cutting” edge.

There’s also two other sections that aren’t shaped for specific utensils. One is on the left of the table knives, and is used for our steak knives and a couple of paring and utility knives. The other is smaller and is under the forks & spoons. That’s used for crap like corn cob holders and such that is rarely used.

Now, I’m used to that layout because we’ve had that organizer since I was a kid, so I wouldn’t change now. But, ideally, I would have the two types of forks next to each other, effectively swapping the teaspoons and salad forks in placement.

And that drawer doesn’t contain the “fancy” utensils like dedicated fish forks and such, we keep those in a bag in another drawer because the truth is that they’re never more useful than a regular fork for casual home dining. They serve a purpose when you’re having a fairly narrow range of dishes that you just aren’t going to fuck with often.

This was one of the earliest discussions I had when I moved in with my partner. She had the utensils spoon - fork - knife and I had knife-fork-spoon. (She won btw)

they have the spoons separating the knives and forks

That’s complete anarchy; I hope you corrected it!

You grab a knife, knife and fork, a fork, a fork and spoon or a just spoon, you never grab a knife and spoon.

I place them in the same order the table should be made (clockwise order): forks, spoons, knives.

Moving the spoons one step sounds reasonable I guess but I’d never switch places of the forks and the knives. If the order was knives, forks I’d have to switch hands to grab them and that thought bothers me more than I thought it would. TIL this is a pet peeve of mine

Little spoons, big spoons, forks, knives. And yes they are insane :p

I checked the dsm and cutlery drawer organization is not a criteria for sanity. Deep breath and enjoy your holiday.

Your knife goes on the right on your place setting next to your spoon. Your fork goes on the left. If you want to set a place settling with all 3, it’s easiest to put spoons in the middle.