The contents of the drawer are ample and respectably organized. The drawer itself, however, is missing its pull handle and is badly suffering from decades of moisture damage with the bottom threatening to fall out any day now.
I still have a silverware drawer that might be a disaster. But I decided for routine daily silverware it was a waste to sort into trays since I don’t “set tables” for just me and maybe one other person. So you grab a fork or spoon or whatever you need from an IKEA stainless steel canister that is on the counter. That is right, they are not all sorted and lined up! Just forks and knives living together (I do have good steak knives kept separately)
/youtube bill murray dogs and cats
I don’t have any special stuff for guests, but I’m not my mom. Besides that, I’ve got a nicely organized drawer with our regular daily silverware, and another couple drawers with random pieces inside.
To accommodate the preferences of our often-visiting family member from two blocks away, I recently removed the superfluous “salad forks” from the organizer, shifted the iced tea spoons into that slot, and used the longest one for the chopsticks that our visitor prefers to use. I think this probably makes our tableware drawer a bit unusual.
Big-spoon, little-spoon, little-fork, big-fork. Maybe invert that? Chopsticks always clean and separate. And if you get to a point where you bring a woman chopsticks and and a noodle cup? Forgettaboutit
That being said, as a bachelor I currently live like that autistic guy from The Accountant, but I have a few of each utensil and I’m too stupid to use chopsticks
Sometimes, there’s an abundance of silverware, then sometimes there is no silverware to be found anywhere as it magically disappears and not one child knows where they magically disappear to. Then more silverware is bought, and the cycle repeats.
@Jubhah_Leone Try the yard, sandbox, other people’s houses (I keep returning silverware that wasn’t mine that shows up here). That’s where mine ended up when she was younger.
I also lost a bunch to the high school as she didn’t want to eat with plastic silverware the two days a week I allowed her to buy lunch. I only found out when she forgot her backpack, I looked through it to decide if she really needed it or not (eg do I take it or not) and saw the silverware.
So I put really cheap crap plastic in the drawer for a while and locked up the good stuff. I used the good stuff, washed it and immediately locked it up. She was stuck with the crap and bitched her head off. I told her there were consequences to choices. If she didn’t like the consequence of the choice she made, figure out the choice that gives her the consequence she liked.
The solution she dreamed up was to buy a spoon, fork and knife that she picked out, she’d wash it at school and keep it in her backpack.
My ideal set of cutlery
6 butter knifes
6 steak knives
12 forks all the same size, dinner forks
6 larger spoons, regular or soup
6 long handled spoons, aka ice tea spoons. Hard to get unless you buy them separate or get from a fancy site now a days where you buy the pieces separate
My current drool not worth the expense since mine are still fine (bought eons ago from Spegal i think)
My household has the everyday tableware with the mismatched cheap cafeteria style pieces. Then there’s the good 80/10 stainless complete set with ice tea spoons. Used for a sit down table set meal, like thanksgiving.Then there’s my grandmother’s real silverware! Only used on very special occasions! A wedding brunch or baptism. But my everyday personal choice is a stainless steel SPORK! I found at Crate & Barrel 5.95 each! Can seem to upload a pic, it’s on the CB website if you want to look.
We started when we were married with a full set of everyday cutlery for 12, with one extra set that stayed in its little box until we raided it for spares years later. Good stuff, high quality, comfortable, great design; we still like our flatware better than any flatware we’ve seen since (including this deal, totally meh). But … we raised a family, life happens. Over a quarter century plus, utensils … travel.
So of the original set for 13, what remains in the silverware organizer are 11 soup spoons, 6 regular spoons, 11 dinner forks, 6 salad forks, and 11 knives. We seldom use soup spoons or dinner forks, except for cooking/food prep. There’s a separate bin for chopsticks, of which there are maybe three dozen sets, so you can never find a matched pair even though you KNOW it’s in there.
Fun fact: we recovered one knife from the compost bin, where it had been buried for many years. A quick wash and it was back in service.
@eagle80 Stainless chopsticks (which can live a long time) or wooden? If you have difficulty with chopsticks I’d start with the cheapest thick wooden kind. The fine stainless ones can be quite a challenge.
@eagle80 for My father (long ago) we would sometimes find a fork or something in the garbage bag. He didn’t mind it being mentioned. For me and my mother it was “so that’s where they all went?”
Cutlery
25-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY: Lenox promises to repair or replace applicable cutlery items found defective in material or workmanship under normal household use and following provided care instructions for 25 years from the date of purchase. Minor imperfections and slight color variations are normal. Warranty excludes damage incurred from misuse or abuse, such as improper cleaning, overheating, neglect, accident, fire, or theft and does not apply to scratches, stains, and discolorations. This warranty also excludes incidental or consequential damages.
@user73825076 I wonder if normal household use includes landing in the garbage disposal and then the disposal being turned on. That was pretty normal when I was growing up and with my kid when we had a garbage disposal.
A lot better than the one in the header for this thread - which is disturbing in oh-so-many ways. It looks like it went through a Star Trek transporter that was badly in need of recalibration.
My wife and I purchased the Towle Living Hartford 101-Piece Flatware Set from Meh about five years ago. My wife noticed a single minor defect in a fork soon after and never mentioned it to me. It took me over four years to find it.
So my dad flew for TWA (remember them?) back in the day. I grew up eating with TWA silverware they used on the planes (remember that, real dishes and silverware). Dad was just a young broke co-pilot then. When he passed away and my brothers and i were cleaning up, we ran across that silverware in a drawer. Now we each have a set of antique silverware. What memories…
Florida.
The contents of the drawer are ample and respectably organized. The drawer itself, however, is missing its pull handle and is badly suffering from decades of moisture damage with the bottom threatening to fall out any day now.
I still have a silverware drawer that might be a disaster. But I decided for routine daily silverware it was a waste to sort into trays since I don’t “set tables” for just me and maybe one other person. So you grab a fork or spoon or whatever you need from an IKEA stainless steel canister that is on the counter. That is right, they are not all sorted and lined up! Just forks and knives living together (I do have good steak knives kept separately)
/youtube bill murray dogs and cats
I don’t have any special stuff for guests, but I’m not my mom. Besides that, I’ve got a nicely organized drawer with our regular daily silverware, and another couple drawers with random pieces inside.
To accommodate the preferences of our often-visiting family member from two blocks away, I recently removed the superfluous “salad forks” from the organizer, shifted the iced tea spoons into that slot, and used the longest one for the chopsticks that our visitor prefers to use. I think this probably makes our tableware drawer a bit unusual.
Everything is organized and of good quality.
The default state of my adult silverware life?
Big-spoon, little-spoon, little-fork, big-fork. Maybe invert that? Chopsticks always clean and separate. And if you get to a point where you bring a woman chopsticks and and a noodle cup? Forgettaboutit
That being said, as a bachelor I currently live like that autistic guy from The Accountant, but I have a few of each utensil and I’m too stupid to use chopsticks
Looks like I found an image of my system.
Still only $4, how is that even possible?
Mine are at least 15 years old and have held up fine.
There is silverware in it.
@Kidsandliz
Fancy!
Sometimes, there’s an abundance of silverware, then sometimes there is no silverware to be found anywhere as it magically disappears and not one child knows where they magically disappear to. Then more silverware is bought, and the cycle repeats.
@Jubhah_Leone Try the yard, sandbox, other people’s houses (I keep returning silverware that wasn’t mine that shows up here). That’s where mine ended up when she was younger.
I also lost a bunch to the high school as she didn’t want to eat with plastic silverware the two days a week I allowed her to buy lunch. I only found out when she forgot her backpack, I looked through it to decide if she really needed it or not (eg do I take it or not) and saw the silverware.
So I put really cheap crap plastic in the drawer for a while and locked up the good stuff. I used the good stuff, washed it and immediately locked it up. She was stuck with the crap and bitched her head off. I told her there were consequences to choices. If she didn’t like the consequence of the choice she made, figure out the choice that gives her the consequence she liked.
The solution she dreamed up was to buy a spoon, fork and knife that she picked out, she’d wash it at school and keep it in her backpack.
/showme cats & dogs using silverware at a kitchen table.
@mediocrebot very cute, scary, and hungry?
The top tier especially looks angry and some have knives.
@mediocrebot
@pmarin Cats always look angry (or maybe just disappointed).
My ideal set of cutlery
6 butter knifes
6 steak knives
12 forks all the same size, dinner forks
6 larger spoons, regular or soup
6 long handled spoons, aka ice tea spoons. Hard to get unless you buy them separate or get from a fancy site now a days where you buy the pieces separate
My current drool not worth the expense since mine are still fine (bought eons ago from Spegal i think)
My household has the everyday tableware with the mismatched cheap cafeteria style pieces. Then there’s the good 80/10 stainless complete set with ice tea spoons. Used for a sit down table set meal, like thanksgiving.Then there’s my grandmother’s real silverware! Only used on very special occasions! A wedding brunch or baptism. But my everyday personal choice is a stainless steel SPORK! I found at Crate & Barrel 5.95 each! Can seem to upload a pic, it’s on the CB website if you want to look.
My silverware drawer is waiting for the flatware set I bought during the Mehrathon.
We started when we were married with a full set of everyday cutlery for 12, with one extra set that stayed in its little box until we raided it for spares years later. Good stuff, high quality, comfortable, great design; we still like our flatware better than any flatware we’ve seen since (including this deal, totally meh). But … we raised a family, life happens. Over a quarter century plus, utensils … travel.
So of the original set for 13, what remains in the silverware organizer are 11 soup spoons, 6 regular spoons, 11 dinner forks, 6 salad forks, and 11 knives. We seldom use soup spoons or dinner forks, except for cooking/food prep. There’s a separate bin for chopsticks, of which there are maybe three dozen sets, so you can never find a matched pair even though you KNOW it’s in there.
Fun fact: we recovered one knife from the compost bin, where it had been buried for many years. A quick wash and it was back in service.
@eagle80 Stainless chopsticks (which can live a long time) or wooden? If you have difficulty with chopsticks I’d start with the cheapest thick wooden kind. The fine stainless ones can be quite a challenge.
@eagle80 for My father (long ago) we would sometimes find a fork or something in the garbage bag. He didn’t mind it being mentioned. For me and my mother it was “so that’s where they all went?”
What DOES the warranty cover then!?
Cutlery
25-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY: Lenox promises to repair or replace applicable cutlery items found defective in material or workmanship under normal household use and following provided care instructions for 25 years from the date of purchase. Minor imperfections and slight color variations are normal. Warranty excludes damage incurred from misuse or abuse, such as improper cleaning, overheating, neglect, accident, fire, or theft and does not apply to scratches, stains, and discolorations. This warranty also excludes incidental or consequential damages.
@user73825076 I wonder if normal household use includes landing in the garbage disposal and then the disposal being turned on. That was pretty normal when I was growing up and with my kid when we had a garbage disposal.
A lot better than the one in the header for this thread - which is disturbing in oh-so-many ways. It looks like it went through a Star Trek transporter that was badly in need of recalibration.
My wife and I purchased the Towle Living Hartford 101-Piece Flatware Set from Meh about five years ago. My wife noticed a single minor defect in a fork soon after and never mentioned it to me. It took me over four years to find it.
We went from “It’s a disaster” to “It’s fine.”
For years we blamed the kids for the missing silverware. But the kids moved out and there was still missing silverware!
@pooflady So - you thought the silverware hid because it was afraid of the kids, and you expected it to come back when they left?
@rockblossom We figured the silverware went in the trash, evidently both the kids and us.
So my dad flew for TWA (remember them?) back in the day. I grew up eating with TWA silverware they used on the planes (remember that, real dishes and silverware). Dad was just a young broke co-pilot then. When he passed away and my brothers and i were cleaning up, we ran across that silverware in a drawer. Now we each have a set of antique silverware. What memories…