When referring to knives, forks and spoons, what terms do you use most often?

Silverware

Utensils

Cutlery

All of that kitchenary crap.

You know, I completely forgot about that one.

Cutlery.

I'm from Sheffield - we know a thing or two about cutlery.

Silverware

I either use their individual names or call it cutlery. I've never said any of the four listed.

Mostly 'silverware', it naturally rolls of the tongue and through the lips before I can really think aobut it. Sometimes I am able to control myself and refer to them as they truly are... "eating utensils".

minus a cookie for forgetting 'cutlery' so far...that does not roll off the tongue as easily.

Each by actual name but I call it flatware to myself.

Silverware. I don't think I've ever used any of the others. Maybe I say cutlery on occasion, too, although I don't know if that really includes forks and spoons.

Silverware

I refer to each by it's actual name.... fork, knife, spoon.... Dressing up common words irritates me..

I normally use the actual name, but sometimes I use silverware, and if it is plastic utensils (Plastic Spoons, forks, and knives) I call it plasticware

You have cookies & you didn't tell me?

Cutlery.

Depends, I have both silverware and flatware. I dont use the silverware very often.Its been in my family a long time.

ate 'em....without the use of fork and spoon thank you very much...

> Silverware. I don't think I've ever used any of
> the others. Maybe I say cutlery on occasion, too,
> although I don't know if that really includes
> forks and spoons.

That would be called "Sporks"

Cutlery.

I only use silverware for stuff that is actually silver. I am not very familiar with terms tableware and flatware.

I feel like I'm bad at talking, like i stumble with words a lot, though maybe just because I only notice my own mistakes.. well a word like Silverware would be avoided because it's easy to mess up, so something like fork is a lot easier.

Other "Cutlery"

I didn't realize spork could be a collective term. I thought it was limited to a specific type of hybrid flatware indigenous to elementary-school cafeterias.

I have, however, added spork to the SC dictionary.

Cutlery.

I throw them away when they end up in my kitchen. Dictionary is the best place for them.

> I didn't realize spork could be a collective term.
> I thought it was limited to a specific type of
> hybrid flatware indigenous to elementary-school
> cafeterias.
Oh...why they hell not, eh!?

You get spork infestations in your kitchen?! Eeek!

Yes! I thought I was perfectly clear when I held one up proclaiming "Didest thou not sayeth thee are not welcome here thouest spawn of satan, I cast you and the demons from my humble home so thatest thou are not welcome heretowith!" And with a mighty toss into the trash can...I don't know, they keep showing up in the silverware drawer.

I hear they're as prolific as wire coat-hangers at reproducing.

yyyeeeeaaaahhhhh......... how the fudge does that happen?

Rabbit DNA, I think.

fudging rabbits....
AND NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!!!!!!!!!!!

[full] Yes, Mommie dearest!

Uhh...cutlery.

"Silverware" only refers to the kind that is made out of silver. I don't own any. My mother uses it for holiday dinners.
"Eating utensils" sounds a bit silly. The meaning is obvious, but it just seems a bit wordy. I didn't know people actually said that.
"Flatware" is a word that I have heard before, but I'm not sure I even knew what it meant exactly until now. It does sound like something you would have around the house. I guess it must be an American thing.
"Tableware" is another word that I've heard before. Probably another American thing. I would have thought it included anything that you would put on a table; the dishes, candlesticks, place mats...

When I read the question, the first thing that popped into my head was "What do you call the plastic doohickey that holds that stuff in the kitchen drawer?" "A cutlery tray!"

...actually, I'd call it the "cutlery drawer" too!

So what do you call the plastic doohickey and the drawer that holds it?

Silverware tray.

No no no no no. Silverware is kept in a special box in the china cabinet. It's all satin and mahogany. You don't put silverware in one of those plastic things!

What you call cutlery, I call silverware. Granted, it's made of steel, but that's what I was raised to call it. In fact, everyone in my family calls it silverware. BTW-my silverware tray is made of metal with an white enamel coating & is extra deep since I have so much silverware.

That's just so wrong!

I know!

Silverware

Silverware, unless I just want one or the other.

Fork, Spoon, and Spreader, I use the term "Knife" only for a cutting implement. Knife makes one think of something with an edge for cutting, unlike the spreader that lays next to the spoon. Collectively I call them "Eating Irons."

Silverware or the actual name.

Those things besides your fingers that you use to eat that stuff.