Eating utensil etiquette the right side, the tines nested in the bowl of a spoon. Setting the knife and fork handles in a 5 and 7 o'clock position with the fork tines turned downwards on the plate is used to indicate to the server or host that the diner has not yet finished with the meal, while placing them together, with the fork tines turned up and the blade of the knife facing inwards, is used to indicate that the diner has finished. Eating utensil etiquette Eating utensil etiquette covers the prescriptive systems of rules, etiquette, in various cultures for using eating utensils.
Kitchen utensil instruments for cooking must, in a great degree, bear a striking resemblance to one another". Archaeologists and historians have studied the kitchen utensils used in centuries past. For example: In the Middle Eastern villages and towns of the middle first millennium AD, historical and archaeological sources record that Jewish households generally had stone measuring cups, a "meyḥam" (a wide-necked vessel for heating water), a "kederah" (an unlidded pot-bellied cooking pot), a "ilpas" (a lidded stewpot/casserole pot type of vessel used for stewing and steaming), "yorah" and "kumkum" (pots for heating water), two types of "teganon" (frying pan) for deep and