What to Eat Off of and Eat With

As we are all getting our kit together and replacing items as we go to get to the persona we want to portray a group of items that isn’t thought of much is that of our eating utensils and plates and cups. The Captain and I decided to do a photo shoot of period correct items for this group.

You will see there are different materials used; pewter, wood, horn, ceramic. Each of these materials are good but not for everything. I learned from a talk with the Captain that a horn spoon is good to eat with but you can’t use it to cook in a boiling pot because the horn will bend. Likewise a wooden spoon is good to cook with but not eat with.

You’ll need both plate and bowl and neither has to be a large table size plate or bowl. My wooden plate is about the size of a salad plate and can handle a good heapin of rice and toppins. The Capn’s bowl is about as 5” round and about as deep. Perfect for stew or soup.

Probably the best thing going for a kit that will give you a ceramic and tin/cooper cup (good for drinking and cooking due to lid) is the trekking set from Westminster Forge. But, if you’re like me right now, that’ll come farther down the road and I’ll just stick to the basic stuff for now. Since the majority of ya’ll started in CW, guess what, it is perfectly ok to use a three tine fork and knife set so don’t sweat trying to get a two-tine.