"tableware" news and stories

There is absolutely nothing un-chic about the packaging for a pint of Haagen Dazs (Ben & Jerry's, though might be a little much), but if you want to bring the pint to the table and scoop right in front of your guests, these little ice cream serving containers are perfect. They come in either silver plating or mango wood and fit a standard pint size container for ice cream or sorbet.

The containers are available from Vivre for $95.

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Pop Ink is a design company that has created this adorable set of "Fashion Plate" dinnerware. Each set has four different saturated color designs and are molded into heavy-duty 10" Melamine plastic plates. The plates are dishwasher safe, though not microwavable. In addition to the fashion plates, Pop Ink has sets called Lovesick and Wallpaper.

The set of four is $40 and is available from Elsewares. 

That broad, thin slice of New York-style pizza is always flopping all over the place, and on the plate, well, it's so big that it hangs off the sides. What to do? Use the Slice plate!

Right. It's a pretty cool plate, though I doubt that you'd ever really use it at home, for who bakes giant New York-style pies in their home kitchen? And when you order delivery, do you really ever break out dishes you have to wash? It might be cute to use as a serving dish for miniature pizzas, maybe.

Visiting the site, Atypyk, where this plate is available, I didn't find any further description of this plate shaped like a slice of pizza, other than it costs $8.03USD (Euro=9.00).

I don't know if there is anything in the grocer's freezer actually called a "TV dinner" anymore, but basically every weeknight for me is a tv dinner, whether I've cooked it myself, had it delivered from the local Indian restaurant, or *ahem* heated something up in the microwave oven. I'm always plopping down on the couch in front of the TV.

This serving tray is perfect for making a TV dinner, well, a TV dinner. The tray is made of veneer and the plates and small sauce dishes are porcelain. It comes with chopsticks, so I guess Chinese take-out is considered the new "TV dinner."

The tray is designed by Soop-Group, and the products are available from a list of "Stockists" in England and France on their website.

I'm not exactly sure how this porcelain butter container does it, but it allows you to keep butter at room temperature safely for a month. That means you can wake up every morning and easily spread fresh butter on your muffins.

The bowl side holds up to one tick of butter, and with a small amount of water in the bottom of the other "basin" side, it creates an airtight seal when you insert the top. After you're all done, it's dishwasher safe.

The butter keeper is $10.95 from the Vermont Country Store.