to secretly prefer cutlery with plastic handles.

[lingle]

that's it really. We still have our very studenty cutlery set with black plastic handles. We've tried replacing them with proper steels ones twice. One set of steel ones was too heavy (so you lay it in the soup bowl and it tips over), the other too light.

In the old days, you had mother of pearl handles I suppose......

Oh goodness, that's nothing, we've got plastic glasses and melamine plates - DH is very clumsy and I got fed up of replacing them everytime he did the washing up. I like to pass it off as 70's chic....

ooh yes, melamine - it's fab.....

glad someone else thinks plastic handles are a superior design.....

I'm with you I much prefer plastic handles too. I've got some metal coloured plastic ones to fool casual observers :)

I went right off my studenty plastic handled cutlery after using the dessert spoon to dig out some ice-cream and having it snap in half, resulting in the plastic bit left in my hand flying up in stabbing me on the forehead.

So, YABU

Well YANBU I suppose but YABABW (you are being a bit weird).

Plastic handles are much more comfortable to hold. The steel ones only come out on speccial occasions.

YANBU I really dislike crap cutlery, whether it is thin metal where the handles have sharp edges or cheapy plastic that snaps. I keep wanting to replace my sil's cutlery, but without her knowing it was me - she has decent cutlery, which only comes out at Christmas.

I do think it is possible to find good metal cutlery though I have plastic handled stuff (Habitat, good enough quality) and stuff from local shop which is rubbish and snaps easily.

yanbu

i cannot hold thin, metal handled cutlery, it seems to just slip out of my grip and food and cutlary go flying. it's very embarassing in restaurants.

i need a thick handle to grip me!

YANBU, i have a spare set of plastic handled stuff on one of those freestanding racks that gets used as much as our regular cutlery.

i also have a pvc tablecloth and plastic placemats. retro chic, i say.

I went off the ones with plastic handles when I read that bacteria can grow under the handle. Yuck. YABU.