Around 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.
He’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
My Sister sent me this photo and it was captioned “Silverware by Tim Burton, available at Macys”. But a little quick googling showed that it’s not Tim Burton but Isaïe Bloch who created this 3D printed flatware masterpiece. And you can buy a printed copy of each piece from his store for about 250 euros each.
According to an article by Beautiful Life:
“Belgian designer Isaïe Bloch explores the notion of decay/processing, ornamental and aesthetic excess as in former rococo and baroque times, moments of collapse/disequilibrium and a balance in between etiquette dining and torture tools. by subverting the logic of perfection and beauty, non-perfect images coming from controlled methodologies are generated.”
Check out his blog at http://eragatory.blogspot.be/
Our last post we talked about using a Spork for eating Ramen. And we talked about it in the context of instant Ramen, but if you are going to eat a proper bowl of Ramen noodles then you should use the proper cutlery. Wooden chopsticks are a given but what about the spoon? How about something other than the traditional plastic spoon?
From “Teako”, these Teak Wood soup spoons are high end flatware. Hand carved from natural sustainable teak wood, this is a environmentally friendly product. No harmful chemicals are used to treat the wood, it has a natural preservative but that means that is not dishwasher safe. But the look of these spoons hardwood deserves the extra care.
Set of 2 Teak Wood Noodle Soup Ramen Spoons Hard Wood Utensil Premium Quality
