When I'm Setting the Table, Which Utensils Go Where?

A five-piece place setting of flatware includes a dinner fork, salad fork, dinner knife, teaspoon and dinner/soup spoon.

Working outward from the dinner plate, on the left, place the dinner fork and then the salad fork. On the right, place the dinner knife, with the blade toward the plate, and then the teaspoon. If soup is being served, the dinner/soupspoon can be placed to the right of the teaspoon, or served with the soup.

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