The decoration of the festive table will be crystal glasses. Manufacturers surprising assortment, variety of shapes, colors. Every company tries to stand out with something special: cut, decoration. Dishes converted into real masterpieces, pleasing to the eye.
Tableware and decorative items made of crystal very few people leave indifferent, because these products look really elegant.
Advantages of crystal glasses:
- Elegant dishes never goes out of fashion.
- Crystal differs from the glass transparency is never dull.
- Glasses are cut by hand, cutting a pattern diamond wheel. Sharp edges well refract light, fill the container with bright sparks.
- The main feature of the glass with a high lead content - a characteristic pleasant chime, due to the high density of the amorphous mass.
Crystal is made difficult, because the production of such material requires a huge investment of time and effort.
Content
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1 What drinks are served in glasses made of cut glass
- 1.1 Tea
- 1.2 Whiskey
- 1.3 Water
- 1.4 Beer
- 2 What to look for when choosing a steep crystal glass
- 3 Recommendations regarding the care of crystal glasses
- 4 Well-known manufacturers of crystal glasses
- 5 VIDEO: Glasses water of colored crystal.
What drinks are served in glasses made of cut glass
For the crystal there are no restrictions, sparkling vessels filled with juices, fruit drinks, wine, cocktails, tonics, all kinds of alcoholic and carbonated beverages. For each drink developed a specific design of dishes, based on the cultural characteristics of the country - the drink manufacturer.
Valuable crystal lends itself to peer review during which checks for defects such as curvature, bubbles, cracks and more.
Tea
Holders again at the peak of popularity. They are made of silver, copper alloys according to original designs. From everyday accessory, they have become a luxury item. Utensils should fit over of status.
Crystal - the best option.
Production of crystal glasses for the cup holders involved many Russian manufacturers. They are perfect to let out cup holders.
Trading firms complement the gift sets, which often includes teaspoons.
Important! Hot tea into the vessel with thin walls poured slowly directing a jet of boiling water by a spoon, so that the water gradually warming wall. From a sharp temperature contrast tableware able to burst or disintegrate into smaller pieces.
Whiskey
Noble English drink drink:
- in pure form;
- with ice;
- mixing with the soda water.
Any sort of crystal is considered safe because the lead, reacts with the oxide loses its dangerous to human properties.
Whiskey crystal produces several types of crystal glasses.
- Shot-glass is medium to large in size. Drink from a container in big gulps to immediately assess the fortress, endurance drink Scottish hunters.
Crystal glasses for Shot Glass whiskey.
- Tumbler -stakan beverage classical form. The vessel is characterized by thick-walled massive stable bottom. Allowed rounded (bochonochnaya) and the faceted shape of the walls is discharged from the vessel 6 or 8 sides.
Each manufacturer develops design individually.
- Rocks - tall vessel with a thick bottom, expanding upward. Designed for whiskey and soda, plenty of ice. Thick bottom of a slowly warming, the ice melts slowly.
The pleasure of drinking whiskey stretched.
Water
Crystal glasses under water are thick and thin walls. The extruded drinks stay cool longer.
Products from crystal, especially if it is a luxury material, characterized by the high cost, in particular when it comes to crystal handmade.
- Collins - capacity of the average height of the cylindrical shape;
- Highball wide, narrowed at the bottom of the vessel;
- Old-fashion - a small glass, for drinks and water, with a cylindrical or rounded at the bottoms of the walls.
Luxury crystal produced in countries such as the Czech Republic, Russia and Germany.
By the way, dishes under the water is considered to be universal, it is poured into other non-alcoholic beverages, cocktails, tonics.
To buy a real crystal, and not the counterfeit, preference is given to large specialty stores.
Beer
Glasses which help reveal taste characteristics of beer, hops or feel ether aromatics fermented malt. For beer dishes produced by the established canons of years.
Usually the product of crystal decorated with engraving, cutting, carving, sanding.
- Conical pint - a vessel with bevelled walls, flared at the top, thin-walled, blow.
- Irish pint or pint-tulip recognized by the smooth elegant contours resembling a flower bud drop. The range of many branded manufacturers find such glasses. They usually offer a set of 6 pieces.
- German pint or Willy Becher - the most popular form of beer containers. Narrower at the bottom of a vessel expands the top, then narrows slightly. Glass is easy to handle, while beer remains cool, the bulk of it is at the top.
- Tumbler - wide glass with thick walls, made by pressing, heavy.
- Stange - tall cylindrical vessel with a thick bottomed, thin walls.
Crystal in Russia has always valued and loved. A few generations he remained a measure of luxury and a very profitable investment.
What to look for when choosing a steep crystal glass
The purity of crystal determined by the content of lead oxide. The Americans called crystal glass with low content of Plumbum.
Crystal actually never lost any popularity or price.
Instead of dyes in the production of metal oxides are added:
- ruby red color is obtained with the addition of gold or copper (Cu ruby lighter);
- blue tone gives cobalt;
- Pink and purple color - Selenium;
- violet - nickel;
- green, brownish - chrome, all depends on the concentration of the substance in the mixture.
To create a colored crystal using various additives.
At the low thermal conductivity of crystal, glass will not be heated for a long time in hand. The walls of the well miss the sound, even with little impact there, "Crystal Bells".
When the table setting is often used utensils made of crystal.
The cut should be sharp, well-decomposed light from the spectral hues., Fused appear when tackle technology, when the dishes are too long polished in a mixture of sulfuric and hydrochloric acid.
Outwardly spectacular, having a high aesthetic qualities, this cookware can become an integral part of interior decoration.
Important! Before buying you need to inspect the dishes carefully, in the walls, bottom should be pebbles, distinct grains, bubbles.
Recommendations regarding the care of crystal glasses
Crystal is valued for the play of light on the faces. They accumulate dirt, drink a drop. Crockery fades, loses its former luster. Regain its former shine will help cut the lemon juice or vinegar.
For special occasions - receptions, banquets - usually used crystal ware.
Wash hands crystal in a solution of dry mustard and detergent without odor. Better to take a new sponge without a trace of fat. The hard foam places a brush or spatula is directed. Pure crystal upset on the cloth, then wiped squeaky.
Crystal tableware has a high transparency, a play of reflected light at the edges, and ringing.
Incidentally, the dishes with the dried wine stains, traces potozhirovymi soaked for 4 hours in warm soapy-soda solution. After that, the crystal is sufficient to rinse.
Well-known manufacturers of crystal glasses
Bakhmetyevskaya Artel (Russia) produces:
- tea glasses with the standard diamond cut and reduced (low), and transparent with gold edges. Products equipped with "Kolchuginsky" coasters;
- with high net flips to cut, mojito, Long Island, layered drink.
Crystal glass Bakhmetyevskaya Artel.
Company Neman (Belarus) specializes in the production of glasses:
- with a rounded base form;
- a standard format;
- with gold leaf.
Crystal glass Neman.
The company "Russian crystal" revive lost traditions, produce dishes for beverages with a silver, bronze, brass decor in the style of decorative art of Imperial Russia.
Crystal Russian production is highly regarded for its quality.
Nahtman plant (Germany) - a German crystal glasses, glasses for whiskey and beer the traditional form of transparent and colored.
Concern "Bohemia Suite" (Czech Republic) produces assorted glassware, elite gold.
Company «Aleks Crystal s.r.o» creates real masterpieces of clear and colored crystal with gold painting, sculpting smaltovoy, mother of pearl, engraved rim.
A set of glasses of "Crystal with gold."
Manufacturers offer a wide range of crystal glassware for the cold, hot drinks. For the home table often get universal crystal glasses classical form. Luxury with a decorative design will be an elegant gift for any occasion enjoyable event.
It's quite expensive, but also very beautiful art works.
