/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I bought most of my dishes from Goodwill after an apartment fire a few years ago. I like the plates a lot, but they're just clear and round. How fancy does one need to be at home?

N-no I use blue cups in your face h-ha ha stupid

>>6603057
>Expensive Dinnerware
Why?
If you need things to impress someone. You have nothing.
If someone is not impressed by who you are but what you have, stay away from that someone.

>>6603057
I bust out grandmas silver and bone china 4-5 times a year (New Years, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve/Day). I appreciate that I have it and I know this shit is absurdly expensive, but it's that double edged sword of having nice things, but not wanting to use them because you don't want to damage them. I also have this beautiful tea set, but I've only used it once and I felt gay as fuck doing so.

Generally I eat off generic black ceramic tableware and with hand-me-down silverware. Why anyone would eat off paper plates, I have no idea, unless it was for a huge party.

>6 dinner plates
>6 salad plates
>6 bowls
>$20
>IKEA

Just bought a 6 piece set of porcelain, around $80, also have some silver that I use a lot.

It's against my beliefs to value fancy things.

>>6603091
>ramblings of a poorfag

>>6603057

I have Fiestaware seconds... so they were affordable compared to the perfect Fiestaware. I like the thick-chunky feeling and especially the colors.

>>6603057
Between outlet malls and thrift stores, I don't see why anyone would be using some crap every day as long as it's dishwasher safe. Service for 4-16 can be as little as $50, and rather elegant for like $200 with completer pieces like serving bowls and such. I see amazingggg buys at thrift stores on old timey patterns if that doesn't bother you.
And, everyone should have something fun for the holidays! They're giving that stuff away after Christmas!

>>6603175
>They're giving that stuff away after Christmas!

>mfw I just remembered I have a giant stuffed Santa head I bought for $2 last January

>>6603175
This anon, knows what's up.

>>6603057
My mother collected stuff like in OP's pic specifically, so I actually have a shit ton of nice flow blue. Feels good.

I don't like to use the expensive dishes like at all because they'll get scratch marks

Seriously whats the point of them?

Just to impress a few folks?

When i moved out i bought a shitload of plates and other kitchen things from goodwill. You'd be fucking surprised what people give away. You can find shit some housewife bought from bloomingdales that would cost like $30 and you can just get them for a dollar.

>>6603499
Your taste in books is terrible.

>>6603499
I miss him :(

>>6603571
>1384816728258.jpg

Summer.

>>6603108
This

>>6603575
I miss knife guy's ranting over those threads more than anything.

I regularly drink out of a pewter stein, but only because
>funerary items
It still hurts.

>>6603575
I miss him too. I had this fantasy of who he might be, if some more personal information out of him ever was forthcoming, I was curious if I was right. There was this vague age I thought, maybe 45ish, couldn't tell if he was someone I could actually know, with that obvious sitting-down-to-snack kind of platters he'd make up for a good night on the computer. Those cracker and cheese plates were like for hours of WoW raid nights or something. What if he were in my guild trying to down our bosses?!? All ages played. Then, I got a little sense of older guy at home with older parents (to take care of), like maybe not that mean thing of "guy living in the basement at moms" but more like responsible kid with ailing parent. There was pricetags on some of the items, like antiques, or to hold the value. An owner would tear that shit off, never intending to sell, but to enjoy the crystal. So, I wondered if they belonged to OCD parent, or I wondered if he were an ebay business reseller. I gathered he was not in on the coast or in the deep South. The house construction wasn't CBS blocks, but less worthy building codes of wood (or maybe it was like a shed or garage he gamed in?). Mountain type shaded greenery out of window, not sub-tropical species though.

I always wondered if I was spot on. He teased us with the random assortment of movies on the evening's photo. ROFL, pretty sure I got the age right. He was a good ol' boy, I know that. Ethnicity was white. I'd worry about him, not just wonder, if I hadn't also cold turkey quit some online forums too (namely some old IRC). I can still go back to my old channels and it's like yesterday, same people, all like time stood still with just a few changes. I dumped WoW cold turkey too. What a time sink! Wonder if he found sharing his meals to that troll asshole that ranted was a time sink. I'll tell you what. He could bake bread for me anytime! He was a keeper, and liked fun american historical china too!

>>6603582
I mean seriously, the baby cast iron, using the cheese plane to slice a single continuous butter piece of the soda bread. And, that weird turkish carafe with a perfect little cocktail glass of wine, with the ancient tape deck (we all that those), and the juxtoposition of Red Dawn and Steel Magnolias and E.T.! Hellooooo1?!@

>>6603057
I'm afraid to have nice shit for knowing that it will be broken. I would love to have a set of red china plates though. I really should peruse some thrift shops and antiques stores.

>>6603725
>I'm afraid to have nice shit for knowing that it will be broken.
This is handled by buying patterns that are mainstream enough to be replaced as they break. Also, buy extra of the most used items. I have twice as many spoons as the rest of my cutlery. I don't like to ration them or run out. I also have extra bowls.

>>6603728
Depending on cost, that would be a good idea. Still, watching a plate break that you love is heart wrenching.

This is the only dinner wear that I own. I'm not poor or anything, it just never occurred to me to buy more.

I love the super wide bowls, very useful. Maxwell & Williams White Basics.

>>6603693
>>6603709
isn't he in /out/ in those gardening threads or something?

>>6603748

I do spend good money on glassware though

Tumblers from Williams Sonoma, I like how low profile they are. I also have a huge range of bar crystal.

>>6603752
https://www.youtube.com/user/bathingpoodle

Found this, which has all the tracks to the Country Nights cassette tape coupled with various photos of that guy's food. Just click the arrow to the right to go through them on the top row of uploads.

>>6603765
Hell there's 5 images I didn't have before. I wish I had the entire 80-pic set.

>>6603057
I do not like expensive fussy things that break easily. To this end I hit restaurant supply stores for years until I had a bunch of pretty indestructible diner style China. Pic related.

>>6603755
Is that that frosted glass that like, grates your teeth?

my mother incessantly buys this shit and gives me whatever she gets bored with / is overflowing so it's what i use. heavy as shit but sturdy. looks kinda gay but w/e

Old lady at heart here... lenox butterfly meadow is the cutest

Probably the Royal Albert tea set my grams got me a few Christmases back.

>>6603057
I have a nice set of plates and silverware that I never ever use. I am a paper plate and red cup user and I don't give a fuck. If I owned a dishwasher it would be a different story but I don't so the garbage it is.

Support your local potters.

Unless their shit looks like this.

Simon Levin

Doug Peltzman

Bill Wilkey

Gay Smith

Josh DeWeese

Kenyon Hansen

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>>6604188
Money can't buy good taste, can it ?

I have a complete 8 people Villeroy & Boch porcelain set + some bowls and big plates for serving. Just plain white, but the plates are heavy in a satisfying way and it's very good quality. Got some silver and chinese porcelain sets from greatgrandma and grandma, but I don't really like the design, it's kinda like this >>6603499.

>>6604195
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>>6604174
are these names supposed to mean something?

>>6603067
>they're just clear and round
Sounds beautiful anon

>>6603188
>tfw you notice cheap after-Christmas themed stuff isn't as dirt cheap as it used to be

>>6603582
What's that tool next to the cheese/butter? I see them at the thrift store all the time.

>>6604242
It's a girolle, a type of cheese knife used to make thin shavings, like what's left behind by a pencil sharpener. You can use a Y-shaped veg peeler, but they're not as sturdy.
In Southeast Asia, girolles come in shredding and non-shredding varieties and are used mostly for papaya.

>>6604242

>>6604300
Durr, je suis un idiot.
I don't know why I saw >>6603582
as cylindrical/conical when it's flat.

That's a cheese shaver/scraper/soft cheese knife. Girolles are very specific types of those.

How can I tell what glasses cups and mugs wont create that extremely unnerving grinding sensation against your teeth?

>>6604339
>>6604300
Does it work for Parmesan?

>>6604460
No... Parmesan is to hard/break to easily... Its mor for young Gouda, etc...

aww shit

that's some fine crockery

The top is Deruta. The bottom is bone. We maybe use each 5 times.

My wife and I have 7(!!!???) sets of plates. We bought two of them, and the rest were given to us as wedding gifts or from dead people. Some never see the light of day, but we haven't had the heart to get rid of them.

Deruta
Bone
Regular "china"
plastic/family/everyday
Harvard
Yale
St. Pauls

>>6603091
baka

Just got 8 of these place settings for wedding gifts, finally upgrading from shitty looking but somewhat durable wal mart specials that lasted me 8 years without ever breaking.

>>6604907
>btw they are fiestaware for non-american co/ck/s

>>6603057
I got some hand-painted plates from Denmark that are around 100 dollars per. I only use them two or three times a year.

Daily I use Pillivuyt Plissé plates and bowls.

I got some silver cutlery but I never use it. I always use stainless steel Georg Jensen Pyramid sets.

For glass I use Riedel Sommelier Burgundy for wine and Holmegaard Future for water.

>>6603072
My negro...

>>6603877
>grates your teeth?

What the hell are you doing with your teeth against the glass? Do you not have lips?

>>6605186
>meme-spoons

>>6604455
>>6603877

>>6604455
You should try not chewing on your glasses, cups and mugs.

>>6605326
>Do you not have lips?

LOL anon, that gave me a giggle because I literally though the exact same thing. Reading their post reminded me of being in preschool when I still chewed on cups and feral stuff like that.

I suppose i'll just inherit some.
Ancestors were hoteliers who went bankrupt but the cutlery/dinnerware remained and is still being passed down.

I have depression era, crinoline, and green oatmeal pieces that I eat from regularly

I buy expensive dinnerware but I only buy 1 of each thing I'm gonna use so 1 dinner plate, 1 soup plate, etc...

>>6603057

A 100 count pack of solo cups lasts.