/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Doesn't everyone hold their fork like this?

>be American
>raised with American style fork-and-knife technique
>this means fork with left hand, vertically down into meat, cut meat in front of fork, put knife down, move fork to right hand, fork the dissection, bring fork to mouth with prongs facing up
>realize I'm wasting way too much energy doing this, also being too loud with the clanging of my silverware on the plate
>learn that British people do everything backwards but have some good ideas, so I try to eat like them
>angle fork into food with left hand, cut with knife behind fork, so now food is already on fork, this makes sense
>bring food to mouth with prongs facing down, yes this is better
>suddenly try to eat a rice dish, have put food on back of fork and use knife to hold it down, willing to squish it if necessary
>this sucks
>turn fork over to take advantage of the scoop in the fork
>lack of left hand coordination means I can barely get food on the fork, let alone bring it to my mouth

Is the solution to just keep the fork always in the RIGHT hand, and learn how to cut with a knife with the LEFT?

How do Britfags eat food that doesn't have to be cut up? Do you hold spoons in your left hand too? What about soup? Why not just cut with your weaker hand, so your dominant hand can be the hand that actually guides the fork to your mouth? What about cake? Spaghetti? Why bother using the left so much?