From the amazing YouTube channel “Today I Found Out” is a great video about who invented cutlery. He digs into where various flatware like the spoon, fork and knife came from.
It is very interesting to say the least! Check out the video above.
Salvador Dali – Ménagère – An Almost Sorta Look a Like
One of our top ten posts is about the cutlery set designed by Salvador Dali called the Ménagère.
We haven’t found them for sale anywhere but we have found an almost sorta kinda look a like set available.
There are 5 spoons in different pattern and 1 fork in a set and they are made of zinc alloy material. I would not put these in the dishwasher.
Are they the same set? No. Are they close? Yup. I believe they have that same sort of look and feel. It’s your call. The name of this set is rather long and complicated so just check out the link below.
Ménagère – An Almost Sorta Look a Like from Amazon
Photographing Cutlery
Trying to take a nicely lit photo of cutlery can be amazingly hard. That flatware with it’s shiny chrome surface reflects light in all the ways you don’t want for a good image. It is incredibly hard, we know, we’ve tried.
But here is some help from Dustin Dolby with workphlo. This is a great video tutorial on taking a great photo of that dish running away with the spoon. And he even gets into using Photoshop to add more light and clean it up.
Thanks Dustin!
Bring Your Own Cutlery (BYOC)
Here at the Cutlery Review we had been promoting what we call the Everyday Carry Cutlery or ECC. But our friends over at Treehugger.com are suggesting Bring Your Own Cutlery or BYOC. Either way it’s a great idea as what’s called “Normal” has changed all around us.
Bringing in your own cutlery reduces waste, helps the environment and on top of all that, you know where it’s been. You handle the cleaning, handling and sterilizing. Any extra little extra thing we can control in these changing times helps.
So we have embraced the term Bring Your Own Cutlery and will do our best to source and promote flatware that we feel can help.