How cutlery adds beauty to your kitchen

Most people think cutleries are simply for hotels, not knowing that cutlery is now a must in every home kitchen.

Ahmed Nseera, a chef at Good Chefs Uganda limited defines cutlery as a set of tools used in preparing, serving and eating which include teaspoon, dessert fork, table knife, dinner fork, tablespoon, and soup spoon.

Nseera explains saying that if cutlery is visibly arranged on every serving table, they add beauty to that dinning.

Cutlery Etiquettes

When arranging cutlery, Robinah Nabukalu, a supervisor at Shanghai restaurant says a napkin is placed in the middle of the serving table to make it easier for one to use it to wipe them while eating.

Nabukalu adds that when arranging cutlery, the folk is placed on the left of the table to make it easier for one to use.

"The knife and soup spoon are placed on the right for cutting the hard foodstuff and soup spoon for serving liquid food staffs from the right-hand side. Yet while eating, the folk is placed on the left because one uses the left hand to hold the folk and the right hand to hold the knife," Nabukalu explains.

Nabukalu adds saying a desert folk and a desert knife are set on the upper side to make it easier for one to pick and use them for dessert with both hands after eating the main meal.

She, however, explains that different cultures have ways of setting up the table and cited an example of the Chinese who place a big bowl in the middle of the table to enable everyone to pick food.

"It is recommendable for one to arrange the cutlery according to the origin of guests. If they are from different backgrounds like the Chinese, then arrange the cutlery according to their culture," Nabukalu advises.

Maintenance

According to Phionah Byaira, a client relationship officer at Table Affairs, cutlery should be cleaned with water and soap using a cotton cloth.

Byaira warns against using rough material to wash the cutlery because it can scratch them.

Additionally, Nseera says squeeze lemon juice into hot water and drop all the cleaned cutlery in it and leave for 20minutes, this helps to remove all the slippery oil from them.

After washing, Nseera advises wiping the cutlery hard with a clean white cloth so that they shine.

"The more they are wiped hard, the more they sparkle which indicates that they are clean.

It is this sparkling that brings out the beauty of the cutlery when properly arranged on the table," Nseera explains.

 Storage

Nseera advises keeping the cutlery in a clean dry plastic container or tray with no access to dust and water.

He adds that one will be able to use them at all times because they will be clean.