{"id":5933,"date":"2020-02-04T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=5933"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:33:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:33:01","slug":"dining-elevated-uplifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=5933","title":{"rendered":"Dining Elevated Uplifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5935\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Dining-Elevated-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"dining-elevated\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Dining-Elevated-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Dining-Elevated-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Dining-Elevated-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Want to keep germs off your silverware as you eat? I do, and that&#8217;s why I accepted an invitation to try flatware rests called Uplifts from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diningelevated.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dining Elevated<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First, let&#8217;s talk about the issue at hand. According to University of Arizona Microbiologist Dr. Charles Gerba, tabletops are loaded with germs. This is true even when they&#8217;re wiped down because the sponges or cloths themselves aren&#8217;t disinfected after each use. (Similarly, have you ever heard that your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucelee\/2017\/08\/05\/study-your-kitchen-sponge-has-more-germs-than-your-toilet\/\" target=\"_blank\">kitchen sponge has more germs than your toilet<\/a>?)<\/p>\n<p>An easy solution is to keep your silverware from touching the table, and that&#8217;s where Uplifts come in. All you have to do is set your fork, knife and\/or spoon on top on the flatware rests (see photo) when you&#8217;re not using them (instead of putting them on your plate or on the table itself).<\/p>\n<p>I felt the flatware rests added elegance to the table setting. They&#8217;re small enough that you can travel with them, and they make a nice gift for the foodie in your life.<\/p>\n<p>Dining Elevated flatware rests comes in many shapes and materials. There&#8217;s clear acrylic square, triangle or half-round ($7.95 for 4 inches, $9.95 for 6 inches), wood ($3.95-$8.95, including beech hardwood and black walnut), marble ($11.95-$14.95), stainless steel ($5.95-$17.95) and copper\/brass\/aluminum ($8.95-$22.95). My favorite was the brass square for its sturdiness.<\/p>\n<p>You can buy Uplifts individually or in sets of eight on the Dining Elevated website.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of Dining Elevated<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to keep germs off your silverware as you eat? I do, and that&#8217;s why I accepted an invitation to try flatware rests called Uplifts from\u00a0Dining Elevated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-and-beverage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5933"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5941,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions\/5941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}