Yamazaki Cache Gold Accent Flatware

Yamazaki Cache Gold Accent FlatwareI must say that people are really interested in gold cutlery for a myriad of reasons from flavor to flair. The Yamazaki Cache Gold Accent set isn’t entirely gold but uses it as an accent, hence the name. They say a picture says a thousand words and I think the photo above really shows it’s more than just gold that makes this cutlery set an amazing design.

Made of dishwasher safe (but I wouldn’t trust gold to my dishwasher) 18/8 stainless steel this is a single 5 piece place setting that consists of a salad fork, dinner fork, knife, soup spoon, and teaspoon. A serving set is also available. Yamazaki provides a full lifetime warranty against defects, so if the gold does delaminate you can send it back.

Yamazaki Cache Gold Accent 5-piece Place Setting

FlyingColors Laguiole Style Flatware Set – Cutlery with Color!

flying colors cutleryTwo things I really like in cutlery are color and Laguiole (the specific handle style).  This set from from Flying Colors incorporates both into their design. This 24 piece set consists of six each of 9-inch knives, 9-inch dinner forks, 8.5-inch soup spoons, and 6-inch teaspoons.

They are made of stainless steel with ABS plastic handles. Now, let’s be clear that although they say they are dishwasher safe I would recommend you keep them separated in the dishwasher or you will see rust spots and the plastic on the handles will fade. I recommend hand washing which is made easier with this. Oh wow, the price is amazing!

FlyingColors® Flatware Set. Laguiole Style 24-Piece Flatware Set

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

 

Yamazaki Hafnia 20-Piece Flatware

Yamazaki Hafnia 20-Piece FlatwareRecently we’ve been looking at some of the work by Yamazaki. So after examining the more unique work, we’ve decided to look at something very contemporary.

The Hafnia 20-Piece flatware by Yamazaki is a graceful and simple design that is Scandinavian influenced (How? I don’t see it?). This is a cutlery setting for four that includes a dinner knife, dinner fork, salad fork; soup spoon and teaspoon. Made of dishwasher safe 18/8 stainless steel.

Yamazaki Hafnia 20-Piece Flatware Set, Service for 4