Cookware and Tools
Coconut Wood Plates
Plates turned from the trunk of a felled coconut palm, dark grained and unusually hard.
- Turned from trees felled at the end of their bearing life
- Dark speckled grain unlike any other timber
- Harder and denser than most tropical woods
- Finished with food-safe oil, not lacquer
- Hand wash and oil, like any wooden board
Available to pre-orderSKU: CC-TOL-PLT
Size: Single plate
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Description
Plates turned from coconut palm timber, the wood taken from trees felled at the end of their productive life. The grain is dark, speckled and much harder than most tropical woods, and each plate is finished with food-safe oil rather than lacquer.
A coconut palm stops bearing usefully after sixty or seventy years, and then it comes down. The trunk used to be a disposal problem, because coconut timber is awkward to work and blunts tools quickly.
That hardness is what makes it good for plates. The wood is dense, the grain is dark and speckled in a way nothing else looks like, and it takes an oil finish beautifully.
Like the bowls, these are hand wash and oil. Wood plates that go through a dishwasher warp and split, and no finish prevents it.
How to Use
- Serve short eats and cutlets on the table
- Use as a board for cheese, fruit or bread
- Plate up a rice and curry for photographs
- Serve dry food rather than anything wet and hot
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From palms felled at the end of their bearing life, usually after sixty or seventy years. The trunk was long treated as a disposal problem because the timber is hard on tools, so turning it into plates puts a genuine waste stream to use.
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