Aimie Botelho is a Artist and Blacksmith who came up with an interesting spoon design.
“The smiling spoon, and some process photos. I really, really enjoy how the little arms appear out of nowhere, formed by forging 2 dimples into the top of the bar and forcing the material downwards – no cutting involved. Steel is so. damn. neat.”
Check out more photos of this spoon and it’s creation on her Facebook page here
Fall is upon us and that means cooler weather, a yard full of leave and ghosts and goblins. There’s nothing like a fancy scary Halloween dinner for close friends and undead. And you really need the right flatware to set the frightening tone.
Boneware brings us the Skeleton Plastic Silverware Set. Let’s be clear, this is NOT disposable plastic cutlery. This is BPA & phthalate toxin free, FDA Compliant reusable cutlery.
“BoneWare Cutlery is 3x heavier and Underwriters Laboratory tested to be 6x strong than regular plasticware. The injection molds were hand polished so no sharp edges around the spoon or fork. However, one can actually stab salad with the fork instead of chasing it around the bowl, cut steak with the knife and scoop ice cream or peanut butter with the spoon! Long term tested to be dishwasher safe, lower rack. However, intense heat (steam) will melt the utensils. Lifetime Free Replacement Guarantee if not abused. The BoneWare prototypes were hand-sculpted referencing medical drawings to ensure accurate anatomy. Can be used as an educational tool while eating!”
They are serious about the strength of this cutlery, check it out:
This is an investment in Halloween cutlery that can be used for years to come. And not just Halloween, maybe horror movie theme nights?
Knife, fork and spoon. That’s the three basic categories of cutlery. But you can crossbreed and mix and match, as seen here:
Today we are going to talk about the “Knork” which is the love child of the Fork and Knife. In short, you get a fork that you can use to cut your food before stabbing it and getting it into your gob. Now look at the photo of that old time knork up top. That’s a scary looking rusty blade attached that’s just looking to slice open the corner of your mouth isn’t it? I’m not going there.
But if you only had one arm like Horatio Nelson then this might be your only option. Horatio Nelson was a British naval admiral who went to war with Napoleon in 1798. And it cost him his ark which was amputated aboard a ship. So for his arm and efforts the British Army gave him a golden Knork which was thereon referred to as “Nelson’s Fork”.
The modern day Knork is a lot more practical. Back in 2015 Oprah Winfrey even a knork set on her list of favorites.
And that was a historical cutlery lesson for you.
cutlery
[ kuht-luh-ree ]
noun
cutting instruments collectively, especially knives for cutting food.
utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons, used at the table for serving and eating food.
the trade or business of a cutler.
What is the plural of cutlery? Is ‘cutlery’ an uncountable noun? Is it cutleries? Or is it just cutlery? In Canada we say multiple beer are beers but multiples moose are not mooses.
Pluralisation is a grammatical conundrum. Can flatware be flatwares? Can silverware be silvewares? They all seems to be cursed. Spoon is spoons, fork is forks, knife is knives but cutlery and flatware just don’t seem to enjoy being pluralized.
Over at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cutlery they say “cutlery (countable and uncountable, plural cutleries)”. This isn’t helping. And someone else says “Cutlery is an uncountable noun. We cannot say a cutlery, but we can say, the cutlery, some cutlery or much cutlery.”
In an interesting article at Punchng.com Akeem Lasisi dives into this unusual cutlery writing problem. It’s something that has plagued us for years and we find it interesting. You might not, but we do, and sometimes we do post for us 🙂
