Cheap or Expensive Cutlery?

[Barriehie]

I have my two favorite pairs of titanium chopsticks!

Like the sound of those!

Pure Titanium Chopsticks

 

[Z-Cook]

Pure Titanium Chopsticks

Bargain too!

 

[SoCalZone10]

I don’t want fancy chopsticks, they maybe hard to control. I prefer the ones I get free from the restaurants.

 

[Barriehie]

I don’t want fancy chopsticks, they maybe hard to control. I prfer the ones I get free from the restaurants.

I got titanium ones so I could sterilize them. Quick blast from the oxy-acetylene torch and you still have chopsticks. The ones from the restaurants someone else has had their hands on...

 

[SoCalZone10]

I got titanium ones so I could sterilize them. Quick blast from the oxy-acetylene torch and you still have chopsticks. The ones from the restaurants someone else has had their hands on...

No, the ones I’m thinking of are covered in paper, I don't like the used ones either.

 

[Barriehie]

No, the ones I’m thinking of are covered in paper, I don't like the used ones either.

Never saw paper ones that didn't have the handle part, where you break it, covered. They were always sticking out.

 

[Barriehie]

I've got these.

 

[SoCalZone10]

Never saw paper ones that didn't have the handle part, where you break it, covered. They were always sticking out.

The ones I’m referring to are sealed, not fused inside, very convenient.

 

[Gone Hiking]

Our daily silverware is off the shelf stuff, nothing fancy, but with peen hammered handles and is of good weight. I like them. Mrs. GH also bought an expensive set that I don't like. It's lightweight and looks and feels cheap to me, regardless of the price. We also have a more fancy set of stag-handled silverware that we only break out for special occasions, like Thanksgiving and Christmas, or if I'm taking a proper "dinner pic" on one of the gun forums I'm on, which believe it or not, has a lot of food threads, but has standards for such things, so you'd better bring your game or get criticized, lol, all in good fun.

 

[badjak]

The ones I’m referring to are sealed, not fused inside, very convenient.

My latest fancy set of chop sticks

(They came with my Vietnamese springrolls. And yes, they are still using plastic here)

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

My OH bought me these as a stocking filler.


Only he didn't look at the back until he wrapped them!

Spoiler

 

[badjak]

I quite like them.
I use chopsticks for stirring liquids and other things

 

[Barriehie]

I'm glad mine aren't single-use.

 

[karadekoolaid]

I only use chopsticks with (a) sushi (b) Chinese food, sometimes, so I'm quite happy with thre discardable versions.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

One karadekoolaid and fellow Brits will recognise.
My curry cutlery (I use it for other things), this is the cutlery you most commonly see in a standard British curry house.
It’s called ‘Kings’ it’s been about since 1820
It was a pattern you could buy (along with others like ‘Bead’) so it became widespread and there are a lot of iterations varying from cheap as chips tin foil to solid silver.
No, mines definitely not silver but I did managed to go to 18/10 stainless steel with a 50 year guarantee

Because I first encountered it in a Curry House I always assumed the pattern was Indian. I only discovered while typing this and having a look to see what it’s origins are it’s got nothing to do with India

Apparently “..heavily influenced by the ornate designs and ornamentation of the French 18th-century style and the British Regency era, reflecting the extravagant tastes of the period.”

Tbh I think I would have rather continued believing it was Indian. I always thought the bottom flourish was very Raj like. Got that wrong ay!!