[Bryn-gwlad] Feast Gear

[tmcd@panix.com]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Sandy Straubhaar <orchzis at hotmail.com> wrote:
> and I still eat off of wooden plates and bowls.  I drink out of
> leather drinking jacks made by Morgan the Tanner of Calontir
> sometime in the eighties. ...  None of these things break, whereas
> glass and ceramic (that you love) might easily break.

Tradeoffs all around.

I used a wooden mug until the handle broke off.  I tried ceramic but
stopped before it broke.  I now use silvery goblets.  Their drawback:
they're now dented and noticably out of round, and I don't know how to
get them rerounded.  But I can use them still just as easily, when
they'd been subjected to forces that would break most ceramics.

I used to use a wooden plate.  Then I realized how long I was letting
my feast gear sit after coming back from an event before washing it,
and wondered how quickly I would die the next time I ate from it.
Then thought about my old wooden mug and shuddered.  I then got a
silvery plate.  I'm not worried now about bacteria lingering,
dishwasher safe ... worked great until I went to the Steppes Twelfth
Night at Fair Park, Dallas.  Fair Park was made for summertime fairs,
so there was no heating in that hall.  It was maybe 55 degrees inside.
The chicken hit my plate and I could almost see ice crystals forming.
Between courses, I took it into the men's room to hold it under the
hot-air hand dryer -- didn't heat very much.  The table candles didn't
help much either.

But that was just one very unusual occurrence: they've worked fine at
the other dozen or two feasts I've taken them too.  So, on the whole,
I prefer metal plates and goblets for durability, washability, and
safety.

Danielis Lindecolina
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Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com