Journal
Three long pieces about buying ceramics well, written by the people who make ours. Each is honest about the cases where a cheaper material or a different shape is the better answer.
How to choose a coffee mug you will still be using in a year
A cupboard usually holds eight mugs and a household uses two. This is about what makes those two the ones that get picked, and how to buy for it on purpose instead of by accident.
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Porcelain, stoneware and earthenware: what the difference does to your table
Three words get used as if they were interchangeable, and they are not. The difference is a temperature, and that temperature decides how strong a plate is, how heavy it feels and how it behaves in an oven.
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Laying a table for four without buying a forty-piece set
A boxed dinner service is the fastest way to own forty pieces and use eleven of them. Built one shelf at a time, the same money buys a table that fits how you eat.
Read itEverything the three pieces describe is on HASENSE mugs and bowls, shelf by shelf, with the sizes and the prices on the cards.
The reference pages
The rules a piece lives by once it is in your kitchen: dishwasher, microwave, oven limits, and where the figures on the cards come from.
Care and use
Dishwasher, microwave, oven and freezer shelf by shelf, plus what to do about the grey marks cutlery leaves on a white glaze.
Read itHow we update this site
What gets refreshed and how often, what a rating pool is, and why a piece we cannot price is off the site until it returns.
Read itA wide range of small things
Why the shelves are wide across mugs and butter dishes and narrow everywhere else, and where the glazes came from.
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