When did Dinner plates become so big?!

Hi

I can totally relate to this post. Deciding to get a new dinner service ...only wanted plain white.... only wanted 10in plates .... Could I find them? Could I heck as like. Got fed up of looking on t'internet and then getting to the shop and seeing them close up only to find I didn't like the quzlity.

I ended up going to a shop that had recently opened called Nisbetts. They supply catering equipment to trade and public. Day we popped in they hadn't opened (DH had spotted it en route to work and thought they were open). Lovely man in there let us have a quick look around to see if they stocked what we wanted. He then told us to come back the following week when they were holding a promotion dY with 20% off. We got 12 of the 10in dinner plates and 10 side plates for about 50 pound with discount off. We also got a goodie bag that had an apron, tea towel, and good quality ice cream scoop in. They hzve washed so well. I'm well chuffed. Let's hope it's another 20 years before I need another set.

freyasmum wrote: »

I was ALWAYS told that I wasn't allowed to leave the table until I had finished my heaping plateful, and even as an adult I've had to ask for much reduced portions when visiting home. I also grew up overweight and had to teach myself as an adult what proper portions were. I still hate wasting food though, so sometimes I do still eat more than I need I am working on it though!

As a result, I hate serving portions for people and much prefer to have a pot from which they can help themselves, according to their appetite.

I despise heaping platefuls - they really put me off, and I don't know where to start!

I'm with you on heaving platefuls - I feel sick looking at one in front of me.

Food was my mother's passion. She was the best cook I've ever known and I've yet to find a restaurant that can serve food that was as imaginitive, fantastically well cooked, and beautifully presented. From a very, very young age we were told to help ourselves to what we wanted, and were expected to finish what we'd put on our plates. If we didn't - no pudding. It was very straightforward.

I still struggle when other people serve my food because only I know how hungry I am, or what I like and dislike, although I managed to force a liver casserole down the other day when it was plonked in front of me by someone who doesn't know me. As I guest on that particular occasion I felt I couldn't really say, 'Actually, the smell of this makes me heave.' For the first time ever I didn't salt my food and as a result it was so bland I could eat it. The plate was a big one, so yes, the hostess had made the food look generous and that made it even worse. I rather hope we're not invited back there.

The standard Denby dinner plate has grown over time. (Strong case for sticking to the older patterns!)

What made my eyes cross when when they brought out "gourmet" plates - the only justification I could see for which would be acting as a charger plate. (Apart from boosting their sales.)

Yet I was persuaded into buying two, "just to see". I saw them not fit into my cupboard & removed them quietly to storage.

Honey_Bear wrote: »

I still struggle when other people serve my food because only I know how hungry I am, or what I like and dislike, although I managed to force a liver casserole down the other day when it was plonked in front of me by someone who doesn't know me. As I guest on that particular occasion I felt I couldn't really say, 'Actually, the smell of this makes me heave.' For the first time ever I didn't salt my food and as a result it was so bland I could eat it. The plate was a big one, so yes, the hostess had made the food look generous and that made it even worse. I rather hope we're not invited back there.

Oh gods, HB, you are a true heroine! I'd have been physically sick, there and then! :eek::eek::eek:

honeythewitch wrote: »

Yes! Sorry to go off topic, but why are so many chairs and couches twice the size they used to be, when they often have to fit into rooms half the size?

I was going to say it's to accommodate fat a$$es resulting from eating the contents of piled-up large dinner plates, but Suki beat me to it.

My dinner service was actually a free gift from one of the catalogues, many years ago, when they were all competing for custom, and offering quite decent gifts with the first £25 order. I was trying to get fairly decent stuff for my house (having moved from a tiny flat) so it was easy to order £25 of things I actually needed, and I did several of those, and got a load of other much needed stuff for free! :money:
When I divorced the ex, I brought the (totally intact and in fact had never been used) dinner service with me; it has been used by myself and the lovely DH I have now for the last 14 years. The plates may be a tad larger than ideal, but I won't buy new til we actually need to.
ETA: I just went and measured the dinner plate that's sitting in the drying rack (DH ate lunch, I didn't) and they are nine and three quarters inches in diameter, with a three quarter inch rim, giving an eight and a quarter inch diameter "serving surface".