I wish I could give you a link to my new flatware; I love it so, so much but can’t find it online, and it’s so difficult to get a good photo of it. It’s by Cambridge and claims to be the Celeste pattern, but I couldn’t find it on the Cambridge site. (I bought it at HomeGoods.) Here it is tucked lovingly into its own separate tray:
And here are is the set of six small spoons (I give them to the kids for things like yogurt, when a big spoon would tip over the container), in a heap with their small-spoon-and-spatula-and-chopsticks-and-whatnot siblings; they’re a different brand but look very similar except with more of a matte look:
Here’s the best I could find for shopping links:
• Cambridge Logan, which is the same colorful kind of flatware but a different shape
• Cambridge Beacon, also rainbow but even less similar in shape
• Cambridge Cortney, again also rainbow but different shape
• set that looks exactly like mine but is suspiciously unbranded and inexpensive (the 20-piece set I bought was $39.99)
• Berglander, which is a different brand and a lower price than mine, but looks similar
• Kadina, which I’m all but certain was the brand of my set of six small spoons
• another insufficiently-branded set that looks just like mine; I wonder if the Cambridge packaging on mine was fake?
Also, I am almost certainly going to be taking a chance and ordering these suspiciously unbranded but darling tiny little flower coffee spoons:
(image from Amazon.com)
In the UK I’ve seen sets a lot like these in AS-DA, the supermarket. I’ve been wanting to get them but my partner and I just combined households and we have a lot of cutlery already so I can’t justify bringing more in. It makes me happy that you have it!
Here are some ice tea spoons. https://www.amazon.com/Clearance-DEESEE-TM-%F0%9F%8C%B8%F0%9F%8C%B8Colorful-Multicolor/dp/B07FP2HS57
I got these for Christmas! And now I eat everything with iced tea spoons! I really love them.
Those coffee spoons are adorable! Who wouldn’t take a chance on “STIANLESS STEEL SPOON” with “SMOOTH HANDFEELING”?
Also, I have that exact same pig spatula!
Here is one that looks like the Kadina set (ie a thicker handle portion) but at a lower price. https://www.amazon.com/Great-Spirit-Wares-Iridescent-Multicolor/dp/B01N5QP9AS
Amazon is all over the place in how this finish is listed. I found the ice tea spoons listed under Galaxy finish, and this set listed under Iridescent finish.
We were in Walmart last night looking for SoMethInG for my father-in-law’s birthday and saw a set that looked very similar to those. Both my husband and daughter oooh’d and ahh’d over them. We have more than enough silverware, but i just might go back and pick them up as a family Valentine’s day gift now that I have the virtual encouragement of all you lovely virtual strangers.
So pretty!! My daughter would love these so much…
I did not know I needed rainbow flatware until now. Considering the iced tea spoons & the steak knives!
Report back on the coffee spoons!
So pretty! I have also seen these sets at HomeGoods.
Piggybacking on the general kitchenware discussions: where is a good place to get open stock dishes? I’m going to IKEA tomorrow, anywhere else? Or experience with IKEA dishes.
Do you have kids? If so, Corelle is the best. Not the cutest ever, but you can’t break it if you try! It’s also super lightweight and stacks super thin. So it’s good even without kids, but with kids (I have 3 boys who break everything!) you can’t beat it. The website has a much better selection than stores and regularly has specials…even up to 50% off open stock.
Ooh, I do have kids, and I grew up with Corelle, so I know how durable it is. Unfortunately I may be committed to ceramic/stoneware because of a set of deep plates/soup bowls I fell in love with.
I regret to tell you that I grew up with both Corelle AND a tile floor and you can, in fact break it. But only if you have a tile floor!
The newer Corelle breaks on hardwoods too. However, they were awesome and sent me a replacement for free, no questions asked.
I bought my dishes from Crate and Barrel 16 years ago and they’re as pristine as the day I bought them. You can buy sets or you can buy pieces individually.
These look just like the straws my cousin bought my girls for Christmas. They sell flatware, too:
https://mermaidstraw.com/products/mermaid-stainless-steel-flatware-4-pk-3-styles
I love you and your writing, but these are the ugliest sets of cutlery I’ve ever seen! A prime example of how we all like different things and how that’s a good thing – as I often said/say to my children, ‘it’d be boring if we were all the same’ 🤷🏻♀️!!
I must admit that I am not a fan of these either. To each his/her own. I need more flatware. Mine is from Crate and Barrell from when we got married in ’96. I guess my kids have thrown a piece away here and there, because they are delightful that way. Hard to get thru the day on a limited number of spoons. Crate and Barrell doesn’t carry them anymore . . . bc I must be old. Officially.
Also not quite my thing in flatware (we use my grandparents’ silver which I grew up using for everyday so it’s kind of my platonic ideal of silverware), but I could see how it would be brilliant for using if you have a second limited set of for taking to work for example, because it would be very easy for children to sort it out into the silverware in the dining room to the silverware in the kitchen drawer. Also I suspect that these would would be subject to lower attrition rates than the scientific literature documented rates due to their distinctive nature: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1322240/
I do love this finish for other things!
And I think the teaspoons are adorable. I think it just needs to veer away from traditional flatware shapes because my ideas about traditional flatware have been made very boring by having used the same pattern for my entire life.
And I think the teaspoons are adorable. For me I think it just needs to veer away from traditional flatware shapes because my ideas about traditional flatware have been made very boring by having used the same pattern for my entire life.
That study is SO GOOD.
Easily the best scientific paper I have ever read.
That study is great, and helps explain why the replacement teaspoons for my (plain Oneida Souffle) pattern are $36 EACH when every other piece is $4-6.
My personal household disappearing spoons act is more because J does not check the disposal before running it and our teaspoons fit exactly inside the rubber lip without being seen. I had my flatware for 15 years before I met him and now I am down 5 mangled teaspoons in a couple years. (Despite *constant* reminders to put the spoon on the RIGHT side of the split sink so it won’t slip into the disposal before the dishwasher gets loaded.)
I think they’re pretty, but having not seen them in person they make me worried about whether the finish would flake off and you’d end up eating toxic chemicals. Do they seem painted, or have you noticed that the colors chip off?
The package says “titanium color plated stainless steel flatware.” So far the color is not chipping off and they don’t seem painted. From Wikipedia: “Because titanium is biocompatible (non-toxic and not rejected by the body), it has many medical uses, including surgical implements and implants, such as hip balls and sockets (joint replacement) and dental implants that can stay in place for up to 20 years.”
Cool. I honestly did not know they made silverware like this! I’m in Canada, so we don’t have Home Goods here.
Maybe everyone else knows this but I just learned you can shop HomeGoods online by searching the Home section of the TJMaxx website. I don’t see the flatware there but it could be helpful If you are trying to find a second pillow or matching lamp instead of driving all over town.
For some reason I didn’t know TJMaxx or Marshall’s or HomeGoods has websites.
Oooh, my child acquired a pocketknife with his camp allowance that has this finish throughout the blade and handle because it was irresistibly shiny and beautiful… unfortunately other design elements make it a bad choice for his age group because the darn knife does not stay closed (you can lock it in the open position but not closed). The silver-(or maybe iridescent-) lining means that when he eventually secured a more functional replacement, it was gifted to me, and now I have a pocketknife I was sharpening admiringly by the fire yesterday evening.
The moral is this finish is instantly capitvating to children, and also that you can get a titanium pocketknife to match if you want to be stylish in survivalist situations.
So, what age do children begin to realize the whole “larger spoons tip over yogurt containers”? My daughter is 5 and insists on using these stupid spoons we have with novelty ice cream things on the handles and they are so heavy and tippy. Maybe if I acquire some of these she would make the switch. In the meantime I put the stupid ice cream spoons in the dishwasher hoping to break them so I can throw them away (they are supposed to be hand washed).
I must admit that I am not a fan of these either. To each his/her own. I need more flatware. Mine is from Crate and Barrell from when we got married in ’96. I guess my kids have thrown a piece away here and there, because they are delightful that way. Hard to get thru the day on a limited number of spoons. Crate and Barrell doesn’t carry them anymore . . . bc I must be old. Officially.
One (of many) Swistle-ism that has stuck with me: Don’t Yuck someone else’s Yum.
My kids learned this phrase at school! I love that this maxim has survived for another generation. My grandfather very often said the same thing in latin (“de gustibus non est disputandum”, roughly “you can’t argue about matters of taste”). No matter which language, it’s a great idea to make into a catchphrase!
I can’t take credit for it: I absorbed it from the cultural air, along with “You get what you get and you don’t get upset” and “If you’re bored, I can find you some chores to do”!
This phrase has totally backfired on me. If I try to get my kids (ages 5 and 7) to try something they don’t like, they tell me, “Don’t yum my yuck.” Sigh.
I feel like yumming someone’s yuck is the lesser sin, though.