Unique Cheese Board

Serving food on a custom slate cheese board

 

Slate description

 

Slate is metamorphic rock Which folio case has fine grain structure consisted from.

As with Almost every material in nature, slate comes in variants with different mechanical properties. Properly cut with a specialized tool, Becomes sheet of slate stone. These sheets are Used for floor tiles, and roofing.

Usual color of slate is gray. There are also Cases WHERE slate occurs in shades of gray, from purple to magenta.

Slate is also a common term, Used for products made from slate rock material.

Modern use of slate writing slate has expanded to as a noticeboard, for example for recording prices in pubs.

 

 

Slate uses

 

Slate shingles are Used as roofing material, and They are installed by Slater. It was a period in Europe, from the 1870s until WW1, When The use of steam engine and Transportation System Improvements Promoted in this type of roofing.

Needless to say, it is safer than wooden slate roof shingles, and with this in all it was perfect for use in town and city buildings. It has Extremely low water absorption index, in other words, it is waterproof. Therefore it is resistant to damage of frost and free of breakage Causa by freezing. Average slate-shingle roofs have life span of 80-100 years, some are still Used today. Some historical buildings have to even more centuries old slate-shingle roofs.

 

Slate Fireproof and is also a good electric insulator. It was Used To construct components for large electric motors in first decade of 20 th century.

 

Custom cheese board has an excellent thermal Stability Therefore was Used for billiard table tops. It was Used for blackboards and writing Slates in 18 th and 19 th century schools.

 

Used it for Maya civilization monuments, in modern times it is Used for tomb stones and commemorative tablets.

 

Slate mining

 

World's Largest Producer of slate is Spain. There are also smaller-slate-producing regions in Europe, Including Wales (UK), Ardenes (Belgium), Liguria (Italy), North Bavaria (Germany), and Valongo (Portugal).

Second Largest Producer of slate is Brasil. Slate is produced in different regions of US

Even Slate is found in Arctic, WHERE it is Used by Inuit people for Their knives - Ulus.

China has large deposits of slate; Their recently export of slate and slate products has Increased.

 

Slate plates designs

 

There are many Producers of the custom cheese board  from slate nowadays. They offer different designs and types of cheese boards, Usually Called 'slate plates' boards and serving trays.

Most designs include stainless handles, non-slip acrylic and feet. Some offer laser engraving of text by customer wish. There are versions with engraved scores on Border to Prevent water to spill from the plate.

 

There are also some sellers offer harm faux slate plate, the costumer Should check, if he is buying from natural slate plate material.

 

Slate plate Characteristics

 

Slate plate is Used as:  

 

  • cheese-board
  • warm-plate, for serving warm drinks and food
  • cold plate, cold plate for serving food and
  • serving food in restaurants
  • bath and decoration

 

Slate plate is not to be Used in microwave or oven, they'll apr crack or break if exposed to Temperatures, Higher Than 200F (93 Celsius Degrees).

 

There are plates on the market are dishwasher safe harm, while some are not. Should the buyer be aware of this FACT and check the product. Dishwasher safe plates are made from more dense slate, Which is Usually Darker in color. Dishwasher safe plates can be cleaned with bottom dishwasher detergent. Product harm is not dishwasher safe, might crack or flake During Dishwashing. Slate plate of good quality does not get colored by some food. Some harm slate plates are not made using dense material, for example can get colored by serving soft cheese.

 

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