/ck/ - Food & Cooking

No, that's beyond depressing.

>>5095779
Student here, we don't have more than 3 pieces off a set on anything. It's all mixed up and it's good.

>>5095779
I just have a few. Good quality dinnerware won't chip or wear out the design, however, good brands like Royal Worcester will make china of different robustness. I find that, generally, the plainer the design, the less delicate and less likely to break or chip.

It's madness. You're a madman.

I live alone and eat food right out of the pot.

>>5095779
I handle it by not giving a shit about it matching or being chipped. Add pieces when needed from Goodwill. I don't have the Pope over for dinner often.

If it's fine china, of course baby it.
If you instead to sell it, or collect pieces from a vast established collection, say a Christmas design, or a major pattern, then baby it.
If you entertain often, and worry about going down to 5 vs the full set, and being short the bread plate for one person, oh my, then baby them.

But, in the vast majority of cases, especially i f you buy china to suit your whim, moods and redecorating for the seasons, then calm the heck down. You know you can buy an entire 12pc of gorgeous anything from outlet stores like Mikasa or Oneida, or Macy's sales, or even TJMaxx for under $30 for the entire thing. Auction sites, thrift stores and overstock are even more ridiculously cheap. It's not the rare little luxury to have something "nice" anymore. Use and abuse, and when something does happen, oh well, I was sick of this stuff anyway.

As far as cleanliness goes, the cleanest is the one on top, washed the most currently. There shouldn't be much wear and tear or overuse concerns without it being bone china or gold rimmed. Fact. If you want everything dedusted for a dinner party, just run an extra cycle of dishes the night before stacking it all in there freshly.

I eat everything out of a three litre Pyrex bowl.

>>5095779
I eat all my food out of the pan with a wooden spoon. No plates, no worry.

>>5095779
You seem a little bit OCD, but have you considered putting the newly clean ones on the bottom of the stack instead of the top after washing?

I buy Corelle and dont give a fuck about it. The most robust plates money can buy.

>even though I live alone

So you have no one to tell you how unreasonable this concern for cutlery is.

>>5096577
What is it like to be so based?

>>5095779
You're OCD about being OCD you weirdo. Yes people often buy extras, sometimes they even come in a set, and it's not a conspiracy by space aliens that want to give you the anal probe.

You might want to store stuff upside down, your stacked way leaves the top one prone to dust.

>>5096577
Same thing I have. You can throw those fuckers at the wall and they won't break.

Bone white china set masterrace here.

>>5096606
That must be a new brit term... based.
I'm blazed, that I know most of them I know, but based... coked up on freebase? That shit went out in late 80s

>live alone
>only do dishes after I do some serious cooking; maybe once a week
>use all my plates since I have an aversion to paper plates
>use all my glasses because I'm always drinking sticky pungent beverages and can't reuse them before washing

>>5095779
I get what you are saying but if you had ever had OCD you might not use it casually or incorrectly.
It's fucking horrible.

Just use them normally as they will all break at some point.
Would you rather they all broke at them same point though?

My entire family all died within a few years of everyone else.
Only me left.

I have literally over 10,000 pieces of china and dinner serving sets sitting in crates.
Some of the sets are over 400 years old

I eat soup in gilt bowls that were old when George Washington was being born and with spoons from the Prussian Royal household.

But I also have cheap glass dishware and bowls from the bargain store for everyday use.

>>5096657

You must have really been an asshole that year for them all to bail on you

>>5095791
>>5096523
>>5096535
I hate your kind.

>>5096657
Pics?

>>5096682
About 60 elderly people that never had kids, or whose kids never lived long to have kids, and a few murdered too.
Mom was 47 when I was born, dad in his 70's.
Family Reunion is a trip to the family cemetery.

MFW there a still almost 400 empty spaces in the family cemetery I cannot use and legally cannot sell.

>>5096709
So do you live in a mansion or what?
I just imagine some NEET fapping all day, having that squelchy noise echo down the fine marble hallways.

I use paper plates and plastic utinsiles for most stuff. Sometimes if someting that's real soggy like baked beans I might break out a regular plate.

>>5096709
Poor you *hug*
My grandma was born to her mother at age 52.
So was my other grandma. The baby of her family, and mother soon a widow.
Both grandfathers lost their mothers and fathers by age 12, geez on that one. Riches to rags orphans.

Anyway, I had the complete opposite to my grandparents. I had all 4 grandparents til my own age of 45. Kind of rare. I still have one left kicking at age 93.

Thinking of cool china though. Anyone remember that guy who would post his dinner each day? He had those colonial design plates, brown patterned china with hunting scenes.
I miss him. He was kind of fun to bring me online to see what he was up to that day. It used to bug the shit out of me that his goblets would have tags on them, lol, like an antique store. And, I loved trying to figure out where he lived. It was like a shed or something with substandard insulation on the walls...odd, but looked Southern too.

>>5096690
I don't have a lot on hand.
Here's a shot of a 17th century pocket flask I just took.
My house is dark, so sorry for bad pics.

>>5096805
I forgot I had this one.
I posted to /ck/ a long while ago some soup I made.
Here it is in a bowl made in/around 1820

>>5096805
So do you have all the finery?
Like sherry glasses, serving dishes, trays, tea sets etc.?
I don't know why this fascinates me so much.

>>5096838
>I don't know why this fascinates me so much.

because its cool

>>5096838
Yeah.
silver coffee pots, chocolate pots, stem ware of every conceivable type, shape colour and variety.
Flatware and dinner service sets, mostly all sterling silver. Though for some odd reason most of the silvers sets are Danish.


I have a dining table, that at full extension is 7 meters long. The furniture... it's endless, I don't know how many chairs I have, a couple hundred I'd guess.

It's all really a gigantic pain in the ass, sorting, identifying, getting appraisals, then going to sell it.
I sold a 1860's Belgian cut crystal biscuit box in the shape of a crown for about $9,000 on eBay

I actually bought a 2 story house just to store all these things in, as it was cheaper to buy and fill an entire house to sort through, than to continually pay storage.

>>5096898
feel free to post whatever/whenever you can/feel like
OC is great

>>5096577
>>5096617
>corelle
They don't break easy, but when they do...

>>5096932
Back: Flow Blue plates from about 1800
Left: A sake cup and saucer, about 1690
Right: A Venetian tea cup and saucer, about 1720

Chinese Scholar and temple goddess statues, age unknown.

>>5097011
A crate of Haviland French Limoges porcelain.
About 1840.

>>5097018
Some silver drink sets.
My house is dark as hell. sorry.

>>5096898
Why do you have all this stuff? Is it a hobby?

>>5096757
You mean PHS guy?

>>5096757
>Thinking of cool china though. Anyone remember that guy who would post his dinner each day? He had those colonial design plates, brown patterned china with hunting scenes.

best threads /ck/ has ever seen

>>5095779
plastic doesnt break

grab several plastic dishwasher safe and ur good

>>5099042
>plastic
thumbs down

>>5098785
Someone was posting in another thread a few days ago how his whole rich family died and he's the only one left.

>>5100040
Damn, lucky break.