Practical, safety-first buying and care advice for dinnerware and cookware, how to choose it and how to keep it food-safe over years of everyday use.
Turn over a piece of Apilco bakeware, and you’ll find a backstamp that’s older than it looks, and a brand story that’s more tangled than any retailer admits. Apilco bakeware shows up everywhere from Williams Sonoma to a Michelin kitchen’s…
Apilco porcelain France shows up everywhere from Williams Sonoma listings to a relative’s china cabinet, and the brand’s own history gets mangled almost every time someone tries to explain it. Founding dates jump between 1826, 1906, and 1935, depending on…
A widely shared article about Apilco cereal bowls says the Pillivuyt family started the brand in the 1920s, then a few paragraphs later calls Pillivuyt “another premium French porcelain brand,” as if the two have nothing to do with each…
You’re setting the table for Sunday dinner, and as you place that special crystal glass next to each plate, it catches the light from your dining room chandelier and sends tiny rainbows dancing across the wall. That magical sparkle? That’s…
Pillivuyt Porcelain France has been made in the same town — Mehun-sur-Yèvre, in the Berry region — since 1854. That’s not marketing copy; it’s a verifiable fact about one of the few porcelain manufacturers anywhere in the world that still…
Apilco pasta bowls show up in Parisian bistros, hotel restaurants across Europe, and home kitchens where people want porcelain that holds up to real use. They’re made in France, priced at $25–$40 per bowl, and marketed with words like “timeless”…
Can you put a plate in the oven? Sometimes, the material decides it, not the brand printed on the bottom. A stoneware dinner plate can usually take 450°F without complaint. A plain glass plate from a department store can crack…
Search for IKEA ramekins right now, and you’ll hit a wall: the VARDAGEN ramekin, the one most of those Pinterest boards and recipe blogs are pointing to, isn’t on IKEA’s site anymore. Replacements.com lists its production run as 2016 to…
Are Bamboo Plates Safe? The answer depends entirely on which type of bamboo plate you have, and the two types are not interchangeable. Pure bamboo plates, cut from actual bamboo stalks, are safe. Bamboo composite plates, the kind that dominate…
If you searched “types of crockery” from the US, the term probably threw you a little. Americans call this dinnerware. Crockery is the British, Australian, and Indian word for the same plates, bowls, and cups, and that’s not a small…
