Tableware products for sale online in Zambia

Tableware is the dishes or dishware used for setting a table, serving food and dining. It includes cutlery, glassware, serving dishes and other useful items for practical as well as decorative purposes. The quality, nature, variety and number of objects varies according to culture, religion, number of diners, cuisine and occasion. Tableware is categorised into four basic service types; serve ware, dinnerware, flatware or silverware and drinkware or glassware. Whether they are used for ordinary days or for special events, there are classes of tableware to suit every occasion. Explore this category for a variety of tableware available in Zambian stores.

Tableware, utensils used at the table for holding, serving, and handling food and drink. Tableware includes various types of containers (known as hollowware,), spoons and forks (flatware, ), knives (cutlery,), and a variety of dishes and accessories.

Tableware also known as dinnerware or crockery are the dishes or dishware used to set a table, serve and display food. It includes cutlery, glassware, serving dishes and other useful items for practical as well as decorative purposes. Tableware is used to set a table for eating a meal or for serving food.

While the root word "ware" indicates basically any number of objects made of the same material or used for the same purpose, the more specific category of tableware can be easily broken down into four main types: serveware, dinnerware, flatware, and drinkware.

While the root word "ware" indicates basically any number of objects made of the same material or used for the same purpose, the more specific category of tableware can be easily broken down into four main types: serveware, dinnerware, flatware, and drinkware.

Dinnerware is another term used to refer to tableware and crockery refers to ceramic tableware, today often porcelain or bone china. Sets of dishes are referred to as a table service, dinner service or service set.

Crockery Dishes — plates, bowls, and cups — are crockery. If you don't have a dishwasher, you'll have to wash all the crockery from your dinner party by hand.

The word flatware refers to the implements you use for eating or serving food. When you set the table with spoons, forks, and knives, you grab the flatware from the drawer. You can also call flatware silverware or cutlery.

Cutlery - the knives, forks, and spoons that you use for eating food. The usual American word is silverware

Classification of Crockery

• Bone china.
• Porcelain.
• Earthenware.
• Stoneware.
• Alumina.
• Melamine.
• Terracotta.

Crockery - cups, plates, bowls, etc., made of baked clay: The store sells gift items such as crockery and soaps.

Tableware can be made of ceramic, glass, earthenware, porcelain or stoneware and sometimes plastic. Glassware is used for drinking purpose. It is also known as drinkware and is made of mostly glass, steel or copper. The nature, variety of tableware or glassware varies from culture, religion and cuisine.

Why a dinner set is called a “Dinner Set” not a “Lunch Set" “Dinner” means the main meals of the day that we take thrice in a day- Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. That is why in general we call it a Dinner set because it consists of a large number of utensils like Full plates, bowls, spoons, cups/glasses, etc.