Plated vs buffet dinner
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Comments (6)Depends on the size of your salad plate....and how you serve your dinner. If you serve the salad first and then remove that plate, then go for the layered look, if you are like our family, we set a salad plate to the left, which also doubles as a bread and butter plate and never do a layered look unless we are serving in courses and removing the plates in between. A 9 1/2 inch plate in my dishes is called a luncheon plate....and "dinner" fills it to overflowing. I have a set of Mason's Vista in pink....and it has a bazillion sizes of plates. There is a bread and butter which I think is 5 inches, a pie plate a salad plate a larger salad plate, a luncheon plate a 10 inch dinner plate and a 10 1/2 inch plate called a buffet plate. I think a smaller plate would be more versatile. Linda C...See MoreDinner plates too large
Comments (23)Just brought home new DW. Extremely disappointed. I contacted store to return it. Shocked when I realized dishes that will fit in this high-end, expensive DW, is basic Corelle, with 4 oz bowl, tiny coffee cups, with saucers! No way is this going to fit our needs. Hoping we can resolve this. I thought I had a handle on what to look for - needless to say, I'm pouring over websites that sell DW. Looking in specs to see what size plate they say will fit. Ironically, our 11" plates fit, heightwise, but I had to skip a space, using every other slot. Meanwhile, I'm washing dishes! Wish I had the old one....See MoreDo you own buffet plates (caterer's plates)?
Comments (6)I don't have buffet plates but I have enough blue and white Spode in different patterns (Blue Italian and Blue Room) to serve at least 40 people. I'd say pick something you like (not necessarily caterer's plates) that you can use other than for gatherings. That said, 20 some odd years ago I bought 50 clear glass salad plates at WM for $1 each. So my investment was $50. Over the past 20 years I have probably saved (or as my DH says -- not spent) $600 in cost of paper goods. And surprisingly, I've not broken any. When you have people over for appetizers, the guests are always impressed with the real plates and I take money to the bank (BIG GRIN)....See MoreBig dinners: family style or buffet line?
Comments (131)For many years I did a lot of entertaining: large business parties for my husbands colleagues (up to 80), our California family (15 t0 30), traditional family parties (15 - 18) and many weekend dinners for our friends of my sons friends. The large parties were served buffet style with seats indoors and out. Family traditional parties were part served and part buffet. Two weddings (200 and 100 each) were catered by my sister and her dear friends. Both are gourmet cooks and members of an international group and the dinners were a smash. They brought a 60 lb. fresh frozen king salmon and barbecued it right on the patio. Salad and sides were beautiful as well as delicious. The fish took up the entire grill! Our family and traditional meals were a group effort. The menu was - and still is - selected by the hostess and assignments are given depending on the skills of the contributing cooks. This gives the vegetarians and fussy eaters the opportunity to prepare and bring what suits their diets and others can try their selections as well. Some times we would have place markers for each guest and other times it would be much more casual. When the kids were small, we would decorate fall leaves and then write a name of one guest and place on the salad plate. We did these meals buffet style and of course helped anyone who could not navigate with a plate in hand. Adults migrated to one table, the teens at theirs and the kids would have a kids table to everyone had a great time. Everyone felt at home and helped serve, clean up, do dishes and put the tables away at the end of the evening. It was always a treat to have a family dinner and wake up in the morning to a tidy house!...See Moregellchom
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