I explicitly purchased identical cutlery and gave away all my old mismatched cutlery.
I tried to buy another identical set of cutlery because we needed more and the two version while looking identical on the package and being from the same maker are dramatically different in reality and it makes me crazy.
I also only use rounded handles. For some reason flat ones drive my crazy! 😅
Yes, one of my most adult-feeling purchases was a full cutlery set for 12, and basically a cabinet full of different types of plates and bowls, all in sets for 8 ppl, from the same design series. I love this stuff way more than I ever imagined.
How many times did you use it though?
Quite a lot by now. I cook for 3-5 friends semi regularly.
Got a butter knife that looks the same but weighs nothing. Drives me nuts.
My favorite spoon is made of really low quality aluminum and weighs nothing!
we had an aluminum teaspoon once, don’t know where it went but it’s on the top 10 of my favourite objects.
weighed almost literally nothing and always catched me off guard. i love it.
Trivia. Aluminum was once the most expensive, and thus prestigious metals on the planet. The king of France would dine with aluminum cutlery as a show of opulence.
You (everyone) will hate this entire comment, but my aforementioned favorite aluminum spoon comes from a Czech army surplus cutlery set. I hate the other utensils, but just think how fucking amazing it is that this is a set which belongs together:
Why is the spoon so ornamental and aluminum? Why is the knife steel with a plain plastic handle? Why is the fork so fucking weird with a different ornamentation (aluminum too, btw)? This is a set for soldiers. Fancy is good and all but why is it so mismatched? So many questions.
This specific picture isn’t mine by the way. I’d never allow a fork that horribly misshapen to live in my house.
Damn you guys are making me doubt my sanity way too much with these posts…
Taking this post as a platform to rally against cutlery that isn’t fashioned from a single piece of metal but has a useless metal or plastic handle. When you take them out of the dishwasher, a pool of warm, stagnant , vaguely soap-smelling water will pour out onto your wrist and wet your sleeve and my week is ruined.
For the record, I haven’t experienced this in years but I carry the trauma.
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All of mine are literally the same as each other lol.
yeah, mine too. if i lose one, im either going to have to throw one of each the other utensils away to keep them even, or get a whole new set.
Lol I’m not quite that extreme but I get it
Lol I’m not quite that extreme but I get it
It fucking sucks I don’t even know why I just hate it with a passion
Obviously the only sane option here is to keep it in your pocket when you visit a friend, and sneak it into their silverware drawer when they go to the toilet
I bought us a nice, thick , chromatic set.
kids lost a spoon here and there and now… we have this hodge podge of shit silverware.
when grabbing for me, I reach for the chromatic set every time.
the other ones are mostly too sharp around the edges, too heavy, or just too flimsy.
I’ve disowned that plate. Its only duty is to support the hot plates that come out of the microwave. It’s become the Cinderella of my kitchen.
my forks are okay but ive got some dodgy spoons
I’ve got some great spoons, but there’s that one spoon that just sucks.
oh yeah there totally are good spoons and bad spoons
For the longest time I had a spoon which literally had sharp edges. I don’t know why I didn’t throw it away. No idea where it is now.
I have a fork that I can’t stand. The prongs are completely flat, but it still has the bend between the handle and prongs. I hate holding it
my parent’s wedding cutlery in the form of like 10 knives are these, the fancy curved grips piss me off.
if there are only wedding knives left, i’d rather clean a dirty regular knife. the rectangular grips are way better.
That is an ugly fucking fork.
Mine is a spoon that is different from all the other… and it is specifically for cat food.
I have a whole set that I HATE. I put them in backward so I don’t pick one up by accident.
That bastard right there!
