Farberware Chipotle Sand Flatware – Always buy two sets of cutlery.

This is a gorgeous and reasonably priced 20 piece flatware set by Farberware with service for four. Including a salad fork, dinner fork, dinner knife, soup spoon and teaspoon. Made of the standard 18/0 stainless steel with a brushed finish. It is dishwasher safe with a 25 year limited warranty.

There is a lesson to be learned here. It’s a nice set but I heartily recommend you buy two sets of this cutlery. A service for four is never enough and going back to find and buy a second set is a constant mistake I see. There are websites out there the specialize in helping people find sets to match existing ones because of this very common mistake. Remember, always buy at least a service for eight, whether it is for serving guests, cutting down on dishwasher cycles or to have extras for lost cutlery…

Farberware Chipotle Sand 20-Piece Flatware Set

Breaking Spoons – Cutlery gone wrong

As always we try to have a little bit of fun on Mondays around here. This image showed up on the infamous Reddit website which is a known source for my local morning TV news and yet they never give credit. I can’t find the original post this image came from but it was Reddit none the less.

This picture certainly conveys the old adage that you should use the right tool for the right job. We’ve recommended the OXO ice cream scoop for situations like this. It’s a funny and in real life very frustrating situation but it does speak to what we are trying to do with this blog. We want to research cutlery and inform our readers on what we find are the right tools and why the perform the job well…

Magnetic Knife Bar

A magnetic knife bar means handy access to your knives and a great way to store them. Throwing knives into a drawer to bump and grind up against each other means blades nicks and dulling.

This 18 inch aluminum knife bar from Norpro will hold any metal objects, not just knives. And it’s not just for cutlery in the kitchen, it can be useful for tools in the garage as well. It mounts with screws but I’ve installed one on a glass tile back splash with a glue gun and it held nicely for years.

Norpro 18 Inch Aluminum Magnetic Knife Bar

FYI: a by-product of storing cutlery using magnetism is the following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhqW3FSiAjA&feature=youtu.be

Cooking Chopstick – “Taste N Cook” by Joyce Chen

Cooking chopsticks are something that once you use them you aren’t sure how you got along with out them in the past. Now I have to warn you up front, you should be already proficient with regular chopsticks before stepping up to the stove with a pair of these. But if you can pull it off it will be worth it.

From Joyce Chen comes the “Taste N Cook” 13-Inch burnished bamboo chopsticks. These aren’t exactly dishwasher safe but will last a very long time with the occasional food oil treatment to keep them from drying out. The tiny fork and spoon ends re-enforce the old adage that you need to taste your food while cooking. They are a little short for working with large pot meals but are perfect for frying and smaller dishes. Really good for Shabu Shabu and other soups of that style.

Joyce Chen – Taste N Cook Bamboo Chopsticks