How do you deal with substandard cutlery when dining out?

I immediately walk out if it's not up the standard, stealing said quality cutlery is the only way I can afford to mitigate the cost of dining out.
 
Weird thread.

Surely the food is what matters? I've eaten in posh restaurants and I've eaten food from polystyrene off street vendors. The quality of the cutlery never once occurred to me.

The cleanliness, sure.
 
Squidward said:
So when ever I dine out at restaurants, I often find my self having to request alternate cutlery from the staff as the cutlery provided by default often feels poor quality (thin and tinny). It is quite odd that this occurs, as many of these places are very lush in every other aspect, but they seem to always skimp on cutlery. Anyhow does anyone else have the same issue? In some scenarios no alternate cutlery is available of course, but always worth asking.

And leading on from this, when dining at other peoples houses like friends or family how do you get around this issue? It feels rude to ask for alternate cutlery in that scenario.

Cheers guys
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Simple.. blame it on COVID-19 and take your own, no one would question it! At the end of the day why don't you just take your own and be honest, you have an irrational trait that prevents you enjoying the experience if the cutlery is not to a certain level of engineering construction?

I wouldn't care if you pitched up at mine and whipped out a sturdy fork for the main evening pot noodle..
 
Mushy Peas said:
... one of my friends is given a utility grade fork with bent tines and probably other peoples' saliva remnants on it,...
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Do you bring your own glass and plate too? How do you know that they weren't smeared in saliva too, perhaps before the busperson wiped it clean with his/her shirt?
 
jon86 said:
Do you bring your own glass and plate too? How do you know that they weren't smeared in saliva too, perhaps before the busperson wiped it clean with his/her shirt?
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Buddy, I'm up in the kitchen from the moment I arrive, cooking my own food with my own cookware, using my own ingredients. I serve the food to myself and bring my own booze and crockery.

Just lol if you're contracting covid because you didn't take adequate precautions to stay safe, protect the NHS and save lives.
 
413x said:
This is set I have. They are really nice to be fair.
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Handles too thin for me. I have very large and now somewhat knackered hands, so I prefer a flat, wide grip.

TheOracle said:
so what is a decent cutlery set?
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Tis manners that maketh man, not his dinner service nor the manner in which he useth it.

Mushy Peas said:
I have a knife, fork and spoon forged from the finest 1095 carbon steel by a master Japanese craftsman who has spent the last 60 years honing his skills and perfecting his craft....
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That's exactly what the sales blurb said on the QVC shopping channel...

Maccy said:
Nah I was hoping someone might get the reference ;)
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I got it. Luckily I didn't say anything about it, though!
 
My cutlery drawer contains a decent matching set of about 6 matching fork/knife/spoon etc sets. It also contains another 7 or 8 random forks, knives etc.

Some of the randoms are IKEA and I just cant bring myself to use them. For a kick off the forks have only 3 tines, every other fork we own has 4. The metal edges of the IKEA tackle also feels rough to me, like it's been poorly stamped out of car bonnet.

We can get to the point of having a half full dishwasher but low on cutlery in the drawer so rather than use ikea I'll pull dirty stuff from dishwasher and wash by hand. Missus thinks I'm mad.

It's abit like the knife block/sharp knives. I can't use the chopping knife for some reason and always for a donkeys old one I've had for years that sits in the drawer! It's just preference I suppose.
 
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