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
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.
Black flatware is an elusive beast. It’s hard to find, OK it is not hard to find, but it’s hard to find at a reasonable quality and price. Looking at black flatware online points out one of the common misleading things in cutlery advertising, the “5-Piece Place Setting”. At first read it looks just fine and you think it will fill your requirements. But no it won’t, well actually it will. I keep contradicting myself here don’t I? A “5-Piece Place Setting” is five pieces of cutlery (two forks, two spoons and one knife) for just one person. One place setting for one person. Suddenly the price is 4 times what you thought.
Which brings us back to the black cutlery. This stuff is pricey because of the enameling or annealing process. The black coating has to be sturdy to stand up to the dishwasher and people’s teeth. And for that you pay a little more. The “Rocco Black” set from Herdmar is a reasonable price and I recommend buying it just for two people for those special evenings.
Herdmar “Rocco Black” 18/10 Stainless Steel 5-Piece Place Setting
I came across this unique piece of cutlery by accident, I was looking for a children stainless steel flatware set that was all smooth corners and safe for little hands and little mouths. Instead I stumbled across this, the Ultimate Cookie Spoon!
This BPA free cookie cradle comes in five possible colors and allows you to safely and securely dip your favorite cookie (probably Oreo) into your milk without wet fingers or broken or lost cookie bits.
An interesting quote from the creator: “My favorite snack as a kid was Oreos and milk, but they would always break and fall into the milk if I dunked them for too long! As an adult, I still had the same problem so I set out to solve the issue and created the Dipr. Now, all ages can enjoy the dunking experience without losing their cookies!”
Yes, this is a one use piece of kitchen cutlery, but it’s for cookies! Think about the cookies!
The Dipr the Ultimate Cookie Spoon
