How to Choose Your Utensils

Without them become meaningless all the everlasting rules of etiquette; impossible without them there is no meal, except, perhaps, Japan and China, where food is served to the sticks; without them, people just went back to the cave without potato peeler. They - it's cutlery, the same spoons and forks, which we use every day. Buy a set of cutlery in our time is not difficult. Much more difficult to navigate in the infinite ocean of forms, styles and prices. Cutlery made of plastic, wood, aluminum, stainless steel flatware sets, nickel silver or silver. Here is a comparison of cutlery made from these materials, we are going to do.

Wooden spoon - it's certainly smart, but as cutlery for each day is unlikely to fit. They are not very comfortable, have a tendency to absorb moisture, are short-lived. So for a trip out of town on the ear - please, and we will need in the kitchen cutlery from more durable material.

Aluminium utensils. These curiosities can now be found in the kitchen of her great-grandmother in the village. No hostess today does not dare to buy aluminum spoons. And it's not so much the fact that aluminum is harmful (which, incidentally, does refuted by many experts), and that the aluminum spoons and forks are not as strong as we would like, and also far from the concept of "aesthetics". They quickly lose their shape and color.

Finally, silver cutlery - a classic of the genre and subject the owners pride. From exclusive sets are made of silver cutlery. I must say that silver is not the best in terms of comfort material - Instruments of it quite heavy. But if you want to start your family tradition of transferring inherited the family silver, then this set is suitable as well as possible.