Category: Cutlery in the news

Heavy Cutlery means better taste?

Heavy cutlery
Heavy cutlery

There is a great new food site from the people at Vice called Munchies.Vice.com and they have an interesting article about heavy cutlery. The results of a study at Oxford University state that food seems to taste better if you use heavy forks and knives. An experiment showed that the people using  weighty knives and forks thought their food actually tasted better that those who were given lightweight cutlery.

The image above shows Exercise Cutlery from a previous post of ours.

So what do you think? Do you notice that the food doesn’t get the respect it deserves if it’s served with something like plastic cutlery? I think so. So how do chopsticks affect the situation? Questions and more questions about flatware…

Read the Article at Munchies.Vice.com

 

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Riccardo Randi Wood and Plastic Disposable Cutlery

riccardorandi-wood-plastic-cutleryRiccardo Randi is a material designer with some pretty good ideas. While working on the branding for a restaurant in Italy he went looking for nice disposable cutlery and couldn’t find anything he liked. He wanted wood but that left a bad taste in the mouth so he combined both wood and plastic in these hand made prototypes. They aren’t commercially available yet but certainly are a great idea for disposable cutlery with a better heft and use.

Our friends over at Design Boom have a nice article and a lot more pictures of this unique wood and plastic cutlery.

Read the article @ Design Boom

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What is it called? Cutlery, Flatware or Silverware?

flat flatwareAround here we prefer the term cutlery obviously but the discussion continues everyday about what we call those utensils that we use to put food in our mouths. What is it called? Cutlery, Flatware or Silverware? Isn’t Silverware supposed to be made of silver?

The above image is some flattened design flatware by Josef Hoffmann.

A great post at The Grammarphobia Blog talks about what is “flat” about Flatware and the history of the terms that we seem to use interchangeably.

Check out the article at Grammarphobia

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365 hand carved wooden spoons in one year

dailyspoonHe’s carving a unique custom wooden spoon every single day for an entire year. I’m not kidding! This is quite the creative undertaking.

From Staian Korntev Druud’s website:

“The past year I spent most of my time exploring the unique organic qualities of wood and how adding of a function can beautifully refine a piece of wood. The project will eventually consists of 365 unique hand carved spoons made from various types of wood.”

Check them out at Stiankorntvedruud.com/Daily-Spoon

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