![]() I did get two sets of sterling silverware from my mother, but it's a pattern that I don't especially like, and I wish I could trade them in for one set of an Art Deco pattern, like the dessert forks and spoons that I bought at an antique shop on La Brea for cheap. ![]() My mother had white Wedgewood dishes that we always used on Sundays and holidays, but my niece has them now. This means that I have to wash the dishes very often, but I also do not have enough cupboard space to store more dishes, unless I decided to store fewer food items. ![]() I have also bought small plates and bowls at the Japanese $1.49 store (It used to be a 98ยข store, but.) and I still have just barely enough to use. Since I never got married, I never received wedding china, and so I've always been somewhat 'china poor.' I have bought odds and ends at thrift stores that I liked, even though I never got more than a couple of matching pieces at a time. But, it's enough that I wouldn't feed kids with old glazed ceramic dishes. It's probably not enough to hurt you if you use them every once in a while. The old lead glazed ceramics are in this category. Some ceramic and stoneware glazes may be damaged by contact with a weak acid like oxalic acid. Long term, oxalic acid, aka Barkeeper's friend, should not damage porcelain with a brief cleaning. The rougher the dish, the more chance it has of sandpapering metal. Smooth porcelain doesn't offer as may 'nubs' to receive the microscopic metal shavings of abraded metal. stoneware also have different micro-surfaces. The better quality 18/10 is harder, and less likely to leave marks on any surface. Flatware comes in 18/0, 18/8, and 18/10 proportions of chromium to nickel. Chromium (chrome) adds the element of non tarnishing, and the nickel adds some as well, but also the hardness. Stainless steel is chromium and nickel added to steel. Softer silverware, as in true silver, abrades rather easily on a hard porcelain surface. One of the silverware, and one of the dishes. The abrasion of one to the next leaves metal behind when they meet in a death match. Just like what happens with a cast iron porcelain sink. Found this, very informative info from 'The Cook's Kitchen' on another Houzz thread: Grey marks on dishes occur because the dishes are harder than the metal.
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