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Poll Question: is drink stirring direction related to left or right handedness?
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10 [37.04%]
5 [18.52%]
4 [14.81%]
7 [25.93%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [3.70%]
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    Posted: April 27 2016 at 11:28
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Geek If that went clockwise it would jam. I think you'll find that the whisks are contra-rotating Tongue
 
Indeed. Years of unfocused whisking had apparently dulled that portion of my brain devoted to this task. Thanks to your response, future cups of pancake mix will forever be an enlightening experience. Thumbs Up
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Damn, I chose the wrong option. It's left-handed/counter-clockwise.
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

I use this. It goes clockwise and I hold it in my right hand. When something else is in my right hand, I use my left hand. When both hands are occupied, I usually go in another room.
 
Geek If that went clockwise it would jam. I think you'll find that the whisks are contra-rotating Tongue
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I use this. It goes clockwise and I hold it in my right hand. When something else is in my right hand, I use my left hand. When both hands are occupied, I usually go in another room.
 
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Originally posted by DDPascalDD DDPascalDD wrote:

Interesting outcome of this poll (so far)- just a little few votes to draw a firm conclusion though.
I doubt any meaningful conclusion can be drawn because of the superstition element to it: stirring anything in an anti-clockwise direction is said to invoke the devil, and this includes stirring porridge and christmas pudding, and is possibly the origin of the idiom "to stir up trouble". 

While no one has mentioned this in their posts that's not to say those who stir clockwise haven't been influenced by it. We don't always know why we follow traditions and customs (even unspoken ones) there are many that persist long after their origin has been forgotten, such as why men's clothes have the buttons on the right, while women’s have them on the left; or why most men part their hair on the left... We pick-up these traditions and customs by copying our parents, who in turn copied their parents and so on, and even something as innocuous as stirring a drink is a learnt action.

So I suspected the "clockwise" direction would gain more votes regardless of the persons handedness, however one thing that has surprised me is that all left-handers voted clockwise. By way of experiment I used my left-hand to stir my tea and found that I have a natural bias I have towards anti-clockwise stirring with that hand too while using my left-hand didn't seem particularly unnatural or awkward.




I find the whole handedness thing fascinating because of my dyslexic left-right confusion and I still smile when someone says to me "No... the other left" after I've turned right instead of left when following directions (most jokes wear thin after a while but that one never does). The only mild frustration I have is not being able to tie shoelaces - I can master most rope-knots but tying a bow on a pair of shoes defeats me - how someone with "a brain the size of a planet" who can get by in practically every other dexterous skill cannot tie shoelaces simply does not sit well with my rational way of thinking... as a consequence I don't own any lace-up shoes at all (I've wanted a pair of Converse baseys since forever... and still do). Hey-ho.

In our family Mum was right-handed and Dad was left-handed while both my sister and I are not wholly right handed. [Oddly, Dad's left-handedness was not a natural preference - he was born with a broken right-arm so adapted to being left-handed at an early age but remained right-eyed, which made him look extremely awkward when firing a rifle or throwing darts - he was still a bloody good shot never-the-less]. While it is true that some of the things we learnt from Mum we do right-handed and some that we learn from Dad we do left-handed, there are some things were we have no left-right preference. One curious exception to this is when eating - both Mum and Dad held the knife in their right hand (i.e. the traditional British way - or the European-style as Wiki puts it), while my sister and I hold it in our left hands - (this isn't the American-style of "fork-switching" btw - the fork remains in our right hands for the duration of the meal) - as my sister once curtly pointed out after being told-off for wrongly laying out the cutlery, the only person who was "wrong" here was Mum as she was the only one of us who held the fork in their "wrong hand". 

[pointless anecdote #35624, regarding "fork-switching": We were travelling down to Newquay in Cornwall one summer and stopped off at a road-side café for some breakfast. By coincidence some college students we knew were travelling back from Newquay had also stopped there at the same time so we shared their table. The lad sat opposite me (who was very much the worse for wear following a heavy evening of drunken après-surf debauchery), was gazing groggily at his "Olympic Breakfast" watching the fat-laden fried fare congeal on his plate. I somewhat nervously shuffled in my chair, not sure whether he was going to throw-up or pass out. He sighed heavily and picked up his eating utensils and looked puzzled as he had a fork in each hand - he stared at them for a while then swap hands and stared at them again - as we all laughed at his confusion the girl beside him took one of the forks from his hand and replaced it with a knife and he then carried on eating as if nothing had happened. LOL]




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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

Left handed, clockwise.
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Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

, doing a pantomime stir with my right hand it feels wrong if I'm going counterclockwise.


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Interesting outcome of this poll (so far)- just a little few votes to draw a firm conclusion though.






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I've never paid attention to this, and while I'm not currently drinking anything, doing a pantomime stir with my right hand it feels wrong if I'm going counterclockwise. So I'm going to assume that, if I don't think about it, I'll naturally stir clockwise.
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Maybe ... not thought so enough lol. My whisky & soda should not be stirred so rigidly actually. Tongue
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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Right handed.  I sort of go in a quick back and forth motion, Dean.  Maybe once around clockwise and then I do the back and forth....and down the hatch.  Channeling Dad I guess, that's how he mixed his highballs.LOL


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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Clearly those righties are clueless, all us lefties are consistently clockwise.

Yes, but when I visited Australia last year, I noticed I was stirring counterclockwise. Wink
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Clearly those righties are clueless, all us lefties are consistently clockwise.
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I must say this is the most stirring drink poll I've ever participated in.  Downright inspirational.
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Right handed, but I do all sorts of stirring motions with coffee.  With tea I stir clockwise watching the swirl.  Final answer, RH with no preference.
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Right handed.  I sort of go in a quick back and forth motion, Dean.  Maybe once around clockwise and then I do the back and forth....and down the hatch.  Channeling Dad I guess, that's how he mixed his highballs.LOL
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thanks to this poll... I'll be sure to pay attention next time I stir something and definitely check back in.

seeing how I am right handed and going counter clock-wise is.. well.. counter intuitive and physically unnatural.. I'd suspect I  would be doing it clockwise.
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I am a creature of habit (and a tad OCD). When it comes to things that I do regularly I always do them the exact same way.
I use French Vanilla creamer in my coffee. I am right handed and I always  stir clockwise.
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If it's black tea, I might add a splash of milk to take the edge off if it's something like an english breakfast blend, but if it's something like a darjeeling or jin jun mei or lapsang souchong, I'll have it black. Never ever anything in other kinds of tea though.
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