Create a cozy atmosphere during each meal capable hostess. Serving - simple science is enough to know the basic rules of etiquette. Every dish seems tastier for elegantly decorated table.
Since ancient times, the celebration accompanied by a feast, and it was then that began to form the customs and rules of table appointments.
Content
- 1 Which requires tableware
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2 Types of cutlery
- 2.1 spoons
- 2.2 forks
- 2.3 knives
- 2.4 Forceps
- 2.5 Other cutlery
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3 Rules serving cutlery
- 3.1 The choice of the tablecloth on the table
- 3.2 Plate for serving
- 3.3 Location spoon, fork and knife
- 3.4 Where to put a napkin
- 3.5 Dishes for drinks
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4 Varieties of table
- 4.1 Table service for breakfast
- 4.2 Lunch and dinner
- 4.3 Proper table setting for dessert
- 4.4 Serving for the holiday
- 4.5 children's table
- 5 The importance of choosing the right color scheme table
- 6 Additional decoration for serving
- 7 VIDEO: How to properly and beautifully serve the table.
- 8 50 options for beautiful and unusual tableware:
Which requires tableware
For some reason, assumed that set the table correctly is necessary only in the restaurant. Nothing like this! Serving - a sign of respect for the guests, a sign of good taste of the house owners. Everyone will be useful to know how to put on the table cutlery. You must be able to create a festive atmosphere for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Many table setting featured in films and serials, or described in the books, it frightens its complexity.
By the way! Scientists have shown that the production of the hormone of joy in the process of eating improves metabolic processes in the body, promotes the assimilation of nutrients.
Types of cutlery
In the history of mankind had created a lot of devices for food. In the process of evolution they have undergone changes. Now in the arsenal of many housewives have sets of cutlery for the festive serving of stainless steel, nickel silver, silver.
The basic rule of etiquette is a table "from the edges toward the center."
spoons
Dining Room - the largest in size. Dessert at less than ¼. Tea is almost half the size of the dining room, but most of the coffee. Sour cream is easily recognizable by the rounded, puzatenky form. Sugar made in the form of scoops or elaborate figural handle to instantly recognize among the other spoons.
Instruments to serve the table may be many, but not all of them are there at once.
Important! There spoons fruit compotes, they elongate handle, instead of the usual blade kovshichek fruit recess. Externally, the fruit resembles a miniature spoon ladle. Another oddity - spoon with a long handle for preparing mixed drinks.
forks
Standard plugs with elongated teeth serves for snacks and second meat. At the fork for fish teeth at length, it was convenient to extract the seeds. Sometimes fish fork in the center makes the groove. Dessert vary in size, from kokotnoy only three teeth in only two of lemon.
Today, there are many different flatware, designed strictly for the type of dishes.
knives
For starters, main courses, dessert always come with a fork. Knife for meat should be sharp or with small notches, resembling a nail file. Fish more rounded, blunt. Cheese medium width with a forked tip, oil - wide and blunt. For the steak knife is shaped like a small kitchen, it has a crescent-shaped blade, a massive handle. Fruit knife small blade sharpened on both sides, more like a miniature shovel for a cake with a sharp tip.
Set of knives depends on what dishes will be served on the table.
Forceps
For serving the dessert table using tongs for baking, they are convenient to grab a cake, slice of cake. Serve cane sugar (it is always in the form of cubes) are usually small tweezers. They put in a sugar bowl on a tablecloth or nearby. There are still lobster pliers, snails, they split the shell.
The very name of these messes things tell the owners what tongs to put next to the salad bowl or in a bucket of ice.
By the way, for serving salads convenient to use tweezers, which on the one hand the spoon, the other fork. They are convenient to capture the desired portion of the green, stringing large pieces of vegetables or fruit.
Other cutlery
On the dessert table is appropriate for a cake spatula. For calves need a small flat spatula. For game need special scissors shaped like secateurs. Sticks are acceptable only on the table, decorated in oriental style, where guests are offered dishes of Chinese cuisine.
Serving sweet table implies the existence of these devices.
Rules serving cutlery
Immutable rules serving: cleanliness and neatness. Each cutlery made of nonferrous metals on the eve of celebrations to polish to a shine. Tablecloth bleached starches for rigidity, utyuzhat.
Classic and win-win situation - a snow-white tablecloth. She always looks elegant and solemn.
Dishes are arranged so that there is enough space for cutlery. How many meals as spoons and forks.
The minimum distance between them of 1 cm.
The choice of the tablecloth on the table
The ceremony is recommended to light a tablecloth made of natural fabrics: cotton or linen. The tablecloth should cover the whole table top, hang on the sides of 20-30 cm.
The tablecloth should be combined with curtains and upholstered furniture.
Important! Stains with fabric starched easier to remove, they are not absorbed into the fibers remain in the grains of starch, which are easily washed out of the web.
Plate for serving
Lower large plate is placed in the 5-7 from the edge, on top of set dishes for the main course, even higher - a snack. It is placed deep soup. Broth is supplied in special deep cups. Pie Shop plate is placed on the left at a distance from the edge, teacup and saucer - on the right, at a distance of 3 cm from the dessert knife. Plates on the table play a key role, is the basis for serving.
The duties of the mistress comes to the timely replacement of clean plates.
Location spoon, fork and knife
Knives are placed to the right of the plates, the blade to the edge of the fork to the left. Number of plugs must match the number of knives. Place soup spoon next to the most remote knife. Devices for the dishes served earlier placed closer to the edge of the plate, the other next to the food supply, taking into account priority. If extensive menu, which are assumed to fish and meat snacks or second, first put the knife for meat, then fish. Location tea and coffee spoons of the same, on a saucer, a butter knife or cutting pies - at Pirozhkov plate.
According to the rules of etiquette spoon and knife should be put on the right of the plate, and a fork - the left.
Where to put a napkin
Large decorative napkins laid out under a large plate. Woven wiping lip is set or expanded to the upper plate. If the cloth is twisted tube, framed in the ring, it is better to put next to the forks, closer to the plate.
Napkins may be any color, as long as they were nice and neatly stacked.
Dishes for drinks
Glasses, wine glasses, glasses for wine, juices and drinks, glasses put the right of the plates at a distance from the edge, put them in height, right to left.
They can be made from both glass and crystal.
Varieties of table
Each type of meal requires special atmosphere. Private dinner, of course, is different from a celebratory dinner. When only serves dessert, the table does not seem empty.
Descriptions of several classic versions set table will help to awaken the imagination.
Table service for breakfast
For each family member put the individual decorative napkin. In the center put a snackbar a plate, put utensils. Left space for Pirozhkova plates. Next - a glass of juice or water. Coffee or tea pair with a spoon is to the right.
According to the center of the table is usually placed a vase of flowers, napkins and devices with spices.
For general breakfast is acceptable to submit sliced bread in a pretty small breadbox, oil - in nipple. Cold cuts laid out in an elongated platter, cheese, usually do not cut, one piece served on a flat plate or a serving Boards, each cuts as needed for breakfast. Paper napkins put in a napkin near the set for spices.
Bread can be fed and a wicker basket and the oil is fed into nipple made of ceramics or porcelain.
Lunch and dinner
Lunch provides frequent change of dishes, the dishes are arranged in such a way that it was possible to approach each sitting at the table on the left side. After the layout of cutlery choose a place for a soup tureen, a number on a ceramic base put the ladle, to avoid stains on the tablecloth. Common hot dishes are laid out so that everyone can reach their own plates, usually in a common plate put 4 servings. Cutting, snacks count on 6 people or arranges each individually.
Serving dinner table is performed taking into account so that you can conveniently and quickly serve guests.
Proper table setting for dessert
The service will make the dessert table elegant and refined. Nicely, when the table is a teapot, candy, sugar bowl, sugar bowl with biscuits in the same style.
Before each put a plate of dessert, next to a pair of hot drink. Relevance:
- wine glasses for wine;
- glasses for juice;
- glasses of water.
An ideal variant is to use a special service.
Ice-cream bowls for jam, jam placed next to the dessert plate away from the right edge of the table. Wipes better to buy lace. Bags with tea leaves spread in baskets or saucer, put the coffee in the banks, the top lay a spoon with a long handle. Boiling water is best served in a porcelain teapot large. Lemon slices are laid on special trays.
Serving for the holiday
Festive table from lunch or dinner soundly different dishes, elegant salad. Allowable minimum distance of 50 cm between the chairs. If hot, double, putting additional instruments.
Serving banquet table helps create a festive mood.
children's table
For children's matinees acceptable bright colored tablecloth, it can not cover the whole table, it is often put on the diagonal, so that children are not moved the fabric at the corners. Limit the number of plates sufficient diner. Salads served at least, the emphasis is on a la carte dishes that should not be cut. They put in front of each individual in the ice-cream bowls or saucers.
The tablecloth should be light shades.
By the way, the fruit salad can be submitted in the orange halves, first removing the core.
The importance of choosing the right color scheme table
When choosing table setting tablecloth under the kind of event. For everyday life may be mottled or solid color fabric with acrylic coating, as long as it is combined with coloring utensils.
Shades of red stimulate appetite, cold blue tone pacify him. Yellow, orange create a good mood, green calming effect.
The principle arrangement of cutlery: a dish that is served first - a distant device.
A romantic dinner is better to issue in dark colors to advantageously looked candles. On the table does not need unnecessary details, preventing communication: vases with flowers, stacked palm fruits.
Solemn event requires moderate, muted tones, crystal glassware. Theme parties to remember if the cloth will contrast with the coloring utensils.
Serving holiday table - it is also an opportunity to show their creativity.
Additional decoration for serving
Decor should not strike the eye, it is in addition to serving dishes. misplaced:
- high composition;
- vases with huge bouquets, blocking your view;
- strong-smelling bouquets from their guests may be allergic.
Decorate napkins holders, candle holders. Original folded napkins made of fabric - perfect decoration ceremonial table. Flowers of fruits and vegetables, edible compositions appropriate at any dinner party, it will be a place on the dessert table.
Win-win situation the use of colors. They are usually put on the middle of the table - it could be a bouquet or composition.
Knowing the secrets of serving, you can convert a traditional meal in a wonderful meal, where everyone will have fun not only from food but also from the feast of contemplation. So just to give joy to someone you know! Make every family dinner, dinner special.
