Cutlery Cassettes

Cutlery is the most common term used for any hand implement used cooking, serving, and especially eating food. But today they hold much more important than what it was back in the day. Therefore, we can find a wide range of cutlery boxes (or cutlery cassettes) in the market today.

As known to historians, the very first cutlery production venture dates back to the 17th century. Since then, professional cutlers are bringing affordable cutlery to the masses. Today cutlery is also known as flatware or silverware. At a time when the term cutlery is specific to cutting instruments, the term silverware is used irrespective of the material composition of utensils. And the term tableware has come in use to avoid the implication that they are made of silver. The significant items of cutlery include spoons, forks, and knives. However, even these basic cutlery boxes have a lot of variety that we are going to discuss today.

List of essential items in a flatware chest

Also known as cutlery boxes, these chests contain a comprehensive range of spoons, forks and knives used for eating different types of food.  The cutlery cassettes or silverware chest can be smaller one ideal for a two to four-person household or big enough to serve dozens of guests at a party or in the restaurant. A smaller set can contain up to 4 items whereas more massive sets do come with 124 pieces or more. These sets hold great aesthetic values and easier to manage your cutlery. Aesthetically they allow you to harmonise every single item on your table while serving the guests or synchronizing with the interiors of your celebration.

Knives in a silver flatware storage chest

You will use them for fine dining and formal occasions. But the quality of a formal dining knife is much higher. Any table knife is generally a third larger and almost a third heavier than an average dinner knife. And this is what makes them a bit expensive to buy. Some basic types of knives that come in flatware boxes include butter knife (rounded and smooth for butter and jams); steal knife (long serrated used for cutting steak); table knife (main knife for main meal course and); a fish knife (used with a fish fork for delicately cutting fish and seafood); cheese knife (come with long prongs and used for cutting all types of cheese) and dessert knife (with smaller blade).

Forks in silverware case

There are many heavyweight and bigger forks in a silverware case as compared to the average fork. The forks work in pairs with the dinner knives. One can use a fork for fine dining and on a formal event. Hence it is a bit higher in price. Generally, a tableware set includes a table fork it is the largest fork for the main course and alongside the meal table knife. Other options are; pastry fork ( for desserts like cheesecake and flans that contain pastry); fish fork ( used with the fish knife for any seafood); salad forks ( smaller in size and delicate for eating sliced fruits or salads); and cocktail fork ( for eating small appetisers and feature three tines).

Spoons

Spoons are the most ancient and standard must-have on any dining table. There is a huge variety of sizes, and shapes of spoons used for eating different types of food items. A tableware set includes; teaspoons (smaller in size and used for measuring a small number of ingredients or stirring tea or coffee); Coffee spoons ( slightly smaller than a teaspoon and used alongside coffee); Sundae/ latte spoons (designed for stirring tall drinks and desserts like sundae); the dessert spoon ( a bit smaller than a tablespoon and used for eating desserts);  and soup spoons ( they are round spoons for scooping and eating soup). Besides the tablespoon is a standard item in any cutlery box.

Serving items in a cutlery box

There are different types of serving items in some advanced level cutlery boxes. These may include mustard spoons for serving smaller chunks of ingredients or straining spoons for draining vegetables or food from sauce just before serving. Whereas, a cake server is a flat head, ideal for sliding under the slice of cake and lifting quickly for serving. These sets may also contain sugar thongs which are smaller in size and used for picking sugar cubes. Whereas salad serve is a pair of spoons (sometimes with prongs). You should use it for picking salads.