Traditional vs. contemporary - crockery
By vanny
@vandana7 (99882)
India
June 22, 2024 7:44am CST
Traditionally, we Indians ate in leaves, whereas the more well off ate in metal plates. Soon everybody started using metal plates. At first it was silver, then bronze, then brass, then steel, and eventually aluminum. Depending upon financial abilities.
Somewhere in between crockery became the norm. It was affordable so steel plates were replaced by crockery. Even though crockery required frequent replacement. Melamine made a brief replacement but fear of plastics made us revert to crockery.
Now I think we were wrong to leave traditional ways. Steel plates can be used generations after generations. But crockery not.
Only thing is we cannot use steel plates in microwave.
But imagine how much we pollute with crockery?
How many cups and plates have you broken in your lifetime. I think my record is pretty bad. I am ashamed to admit it. I must have broken about 8 cups and 2 plates and 25 drinking glasses in about 50 years of my life. Come to think of it, we don't need to place drinking glass in the microwave, so why should we have breakable drinking glasses at all? For the sake of planet, I am stopping those from today.
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@wolfgirl569 (102054)
• Marion, Ohio
22 Jun
I use a glass. But I seldom break them
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@vandana7 (99882)
• India
22 Jun
@wolfgirl569 You make me feel ashamed and clumsy.
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@wolfgirl569 (102054)
• Marion, Ohio
22 Jun
@vandana7 Never counted but maybe 3 glasses. A couple of plates but I don't use those a lot. We use paper. Kept plastic when the boys were little to be safe.
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@LindaOHio (170715)
• United States
23 Jun
I can't remember ever breaking a glass or dish. I'm sure I did at one point. Have a good day.
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@zhangxueying (3329)
• China
22 Jun
We have been using ceramic tableware since I was born, and some large company canteens use stainless steel tableware.Ceramics have stability, while metals sometimes undergo chemical reactions
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@vandana7 (99882)
• India
22 Jun
You are young so you are not aware of the metal plates era. I think we pollute when we burn wood for making those potteries. In the process we maybe polluting. I am now using a steel glass for drinking water. For as long as I know these have been used by many people. Our neighbors use them regularly. I need to start too.
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