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.
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!
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.
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
Mine is a spoon that is different from all the other… and it is specifically for cat food.
Mine is a butter knife. I had a poor quality and overpriced meal at a restaurant and stole it in revenge. When I got home and started using it I realised that every single thing about that restaurant would always be atrocious and nothing would ever make it OK to eat there.
My wife works in retail and a lot of employees in the service industry have main character syndrome and probably aren’t accommodating of people with autism and unusual needs.
I used to think it was insane that people were afraid of getting their food spat in for asking for no pickles but I get it now. My dad would always resist making special requests like that when my autistic sister was a boy because she had a consistency thing about pickles or any other changes in the consistency of food and our dad would always make excuses about it taking a long time. She worked in retail for a long time and there are absolutely employees who are petty enough to spit in food over simple requests like that because “it disrupts their system.”
Laughed, then saw the community… uh oh
This isn’t me with a specific utensil, but for things like soup/cereal bowls, cups, measuring cups, and pott and pans all go in a specific area for lack of space reasons. I hate a singular pot because we have a set that fits together nicely and then there’s the pot that can’t fit with the others but fits perfectly in the smallest pan we have. It’s not a big deal, but it’s the soul reason I hate it (besides when my dad puts away dishes and puts that pot with the others).
I’ve been using a lot of disposable items. I also require it from the neckbeards who live downstairs, because it never gets washed otherwise. I’ve had them throw tantrums about how wasteful it is, but I’ve been buying paper plates and compostable plastic utensils that can be thrown in a compost pile outside.
It’s usually a handle issue
Weight balance is important tho
We call ours “special fork”.
