Wooden platters

Don`t know about the hygiene aspect of them but I like a plate with my meals. Slates, twee metal buckets, wooden slabs and numerous other things don`t enhance my `eating experience.`

We Want Plates are onto it! wewantplates.com

I dislike non-plate eatingware. I mortified my DD once when I sent back a soft drink in a jam jar and requested it be served in a proper glass.

I was in an expensive restaurant recently and the small pats of butter were on pebbles! Looked like they were beach ones.

Would have done the same Sue

One of my photos made it onto wewantplates.com and got a huge response! I was quite amused...

Wood is naturally antibacterial

It doesn't worry me as I have no faith in anything (crockery, cutlery, glasses etc.) being very clean in restaurants anyway. Isn't wood naturally germ-resistant though?

I'm not so concerned about whether they're hygienic, although wood does need to be properly hand-washed, as the sheer usefulness and aesthetics of it. Food on a white plate looks so appetising, plus gravy tends to run off a platter!

The last meal I took my Dad out for on his 85 th birthday was served on a wooden platter. It was salmon, new pots and veg. Would have been so much better on a plate. Surely just seeing an elderly man the waitress should have realised. It makes me sad to recall it. He died a few months later, bless him

We have a stainless steel utensil in the kitchen. It is quite great to have food in the alloy.