How to Set Table (52 Essential Life Skills series)

Hi everyone! Today I'm going to teach you how to set the table, so you can impress your guests with your fancy table etiquette. First, make sure your hands are clean. Start with a clean placemat. Set the main course plate down in the center. Let's pick out our utensils. These are our soup spoons, dessert spoons, forks for dessert and salad, main course forks, knives for main course, serving spoons, steak knives. These are the main course utensils. The fork goes on the left, and the knife goes on the right. And make sure the knife is facing the plate. Here's a tip, we eat from the outside in. If you're having salad, you can put the fork on the outside, and same goes for the knife. You can lay the small salad plate on top of the main course plate. Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. If you're having soup, well, soup usually comes out first, so this soup spoon goes outside of the salad knife. If you're also going to have dessert, maybe some ice cream, then set the small dessert spoon on the top. Make sure the spoon is facing left. Only set the utensils that you'll need, because who wants to wash more dishes? Here's a fancy napkin. The napkin can go on the left of the fork, or on top of the plate. I'm going to put it on top of the plate, but before I do, I'm going to hook it on to this fancy napkin ring. Glasses and cups go on top of the knives and the spoon, to the right of the plate. Setting the table is like a secret code that only sophisticated people know. It can feel intimidating, but you, my friend, are now fluent in the table setting language.