Oversized Decorative Cutlery – It’s a really big spoon!

Sometimes your spoon can be too big like this poor guy. And sometimes you’d like a large set of cutlery for your kitchen or dining room. To be honest, my kitchen has no room for something like this, I think it’s best for a restaurant. But if you want a really big set of oversized decorative cutlery then this is probably right up your alley. This fork, knife and spoon metal silverware set are 23 inches long and ready for mounting on the wall.

23″ Oversized Aluminum Silver Fork, Knife & Spoon Wall Decor Set

Gary Hovey Flatware Silverware Sculptures

As usual we try to find something fun to post on Mondays and this week we barely made it (see the pun I made there? It’s horrible). Check out this amazing collection of cutlery sculptures by Gary Hovey. From his bio: “Since 2004 Gary Hovey has been sculpting stainless steel forks, knives, and spoons into realistic forms. Favorite subjects are wildlife such as herons, bears, and game fish.”

His Dad searches flea markets for the flatware for his sculptures. That must be boxes and boxes of cutlery!

Check out his gallery of work

Jean Dubost Laguiole 5-Piece Stainless Steel Flatware

OK, first thing to point out is that this is a single setting for one person consisting of five pieces: 8-1/2′ Dinner Fork, 9′ Knife, 6-1/2′ Salad Fork, 8′ Soup Spoon, and a 6′ French Teaspoon. All are made of dishwasher safe 18/8 stainless steel.

The next thing to point out is that this is France’s genuine 19th century Laguiole with the ‘bee’ symbol and everything. More famously known for their wine and cheese knife their line of knives and cutlery hold their name and quality dearly much like “Champagne” does (and I would love to start a Champage blog if I had more hours in the day). The weighted hand hold feel of this set is delightful and takes a fine dining meal one step higher up the ladder. Beautiful work.

Jean Dubost Laguiole 5-Piece Flatware Set -Stainless Steel

Help the Red Cross with dining Cutlery signs

The Polish Red Cross has come up with an ingenious idea. They have realized that charitable donations seem to only happen once a year and have not become a regular part of our lives. To this end they have come up with a “dining cutlery code” in partnership with various restaurants.

They use placemats that showed customers, as in the image above, by arranging their cutlery into a cross on their finished plate they could add 1.5 euro to their bill which would be donated to the Polish Red Cross. That’s just over $2 US and not much to add to your bill that goes right to people who need it. If you can afford the nice meal, you can afford to help.

I’m posting this to encourage the North American Red Cross and restaurants to work together to the same affect.