It's A Match

The problem with having people over for dinner is that, before you make the invite, the only thing you consider is how nice it’ll be when you, your partner, and a few friends are sitting around the table.

You see the delicious spread in front of you. You think about the delightfully witty and insightful conversations that will occur. You can almost taste the delicious Slingshot Cabernet you’ve been saving for just such an occasion. You know, the one with the rad label, purchased at a very nice, accessible price from Casemates.

Wait, you didn’t buy some ultra-cool Slingshot Cabernet? Oh, right! Because they just put it on sale TODAY! Maybe go check it out.

Anyway, what were we saying? Oh, right: hosting a dinner party is so alluring because, when you think about it, you imagine the party part first. You don’t imagine the part where you get a whole bunch of groceries, or tidy up the house for hours. You don’t think about spending an entire day prepping and cooking while simultaneously cleaning the kitchen as you go. After all, a few pots and pans in the sink? That’s fine. But if it looks like a tornado blew through? Not super appetizing.

And even if you achieve all of this–even if you manage to grocery shop, thoroughly clean your house, and cook delicious food while maintaining some baseline of order in your kitchen–you still have to contend with the array of random bullshit you call your plates and silverware. Like, sure, when it’s just you and your family, it’s fine if everyone’s plate is a different size and everyone’s fork looks like it’s from a different century. But at a dinner party? You want to be classy and composed. And a bunch of mismatched dishes and flatware does not scream composure and class. It’s at best ‘quirky’ which is really just a polite way of saying, ‘a little disjointed and weird.’ Trust us, we should know. People call us quirky all the time.

Now, we can’t help with the plates, but we can offer this flatware set. Here’s what you get: 8 dinner forks, 8 salad forks, 8 dinner knives, 8 dinner spoons, 8 teaspoons, 2 serving spoons, 1 pierced spoon, and 1 serving fork. Moreover, you get some uniformity. Plus, they’re not too modern, not too bold, not too ornate, not too fancy, not too anything. They’re pretty generic and anonymous actually, which, for most things, would be a bug, but for flatware is a feature, as it means this stuff can go with just about anything.

So buy a flatware set and have matching cutlery next time you delude yourself into thinking that hosting a dinner party will be fun! (And don’t forget to check out the Slingshot Cab for sale over on Casemates.)