So what Pots do you use as everyday items ?

Having read about Nigel Slater and his pots, it just got me wondering. What pots do you use in your everyday.  There are those who use their Walter Keeler Mugs, Phil Rogers Fruit Bowls, Ruthanne Tudball plates etc every day. We have not that courage!  Simply too ham handed. So these are the ones we use mostly all the time. Winchcombe and St Ives, with David Cleverly and a hugely useful  Michael Skipwith flower vase at the back.

My milk jug is salt glazed stoneware by Liz Gale

I use my Derek Davis lamp every night and marvel at the beauty every time I switch it on, I just love it!

As you would expect, I eat off Denby (Reflex)!

Just a few things in situ in the kitchen that are in constant use: -


The teabag jar on the left is by Nic Collins, the garlic container is by Anne Mette Hjortshøj, the coffee jar on the right is by John Butler and the dish at the front that is used for used teabags is by Michelle Maloney.

denbydump wrote:As you would expect, I eat off Denby (Reflex)!

me too but Westbury

Strangle I like to put some of mine in the oven and whack them up to 140 with a stew in it.

I only use pyrex plates now. They last forever, very hard to chip and they bounce in you drop them on a tiled floor.

PYREX...............
Where's the joy and beauty in that?

Utilitarian. All the handmade plates I used to use have multiple chips. Pyrex is fine. Honestly you can drop them on the tiled floor and then don't smash.

22 Crawford St. wrote:Utilitarian. All the handmade plates I used to use have multiple chips. Pyrex is fine. Honestly you can drop them on the tiled floor and then don't smash.

but life should be enjoyed and not just coped with, if you can afford it.

This is the pottery I use every day.

First some black and white Denby - some vintage Eclipse (teapot, jugs, bowls, sideplates, serving dish), recent Everyday plates, and current (well, just discontinued) Denby Jet black and white mugs.



And then some more crafty stuff - all bought directly in the potteries:

* A breakfast bowl from Crail
* A Crich pottery jug
* A small mug by Jenny Mackenzie Reed at North Shore pottery
* a salt pig - bespoke made for me! - by George Young at St Andrew's pottery



And the marks, in case anyone is interested:

Crail bowl:



Crich Jug



North Shore mug



St. Andrew's salt pig



And we shovel and cut things with this cutlery - designed by Arne Jacobsen and used on the spacecraft Discovery in 2001 A Space Odyssey, and on the Starships Enterprise and Voyager.

carolalev wrote:This is the pottery I use every day.

First some black and white Denby - some vintage Eclipse (teapot, jugs, bowls, sideplates, serving dish), recent Everyday plates, and current (well, just discontinued) Denby Jet black and white mugs.

All so familiar. The Eclipse serving dish is actually for celery, quite rare!


The cutlery I use is Viners "Chelsea" Designed by Gerald Benney in the 1950s. So well desighned and made.

Thanks Denby! I have 8 of those serving dishes - picked up from 2 mixed lots at my local auction house. They are really handy! We often put a square white dish in the middle for hummus and then the dipping stuff round the edge.