What is an olive ship?
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olive ship is a serving bowl that has been specially designed for olives, usually with a narrow, elongated shape and high sides that contain olive juices. Olive ships can be planted in buffets or bars, allowing people to snack on olives, and can also appear at the dining table, usually during the Mediterranean thematic food. Many kitchen stocks sell olive ships in different sizes and samples and sometimes there are also different shapes. You can also find olive boats made of plastic and enamel metal, but these materials can corrode when they are used for a long time with broken olives, so it is generally good to avoid them. Depending on the design, the olive ship may have a flushing bottom, or it can have small legs or even wheels to easily move around the table.
Decoration on olive ships is very different. Some are quite limited, are glazed in solid, simple colors that mix well with different dishes. Others areRelatively colored, often decorated with paintings of olives and olive branches and bold stripes of color to evoke the Mediterranean. Some even have excessive ceramic olives scattered in a bowl for decoration and to fill the space in a bowl when people eat real olives.
While the olive ship is generally an arcade, they can come to other shapes. Some are wider, allowing people to put more olives into them and the olive ship can be divided into partitions to separate different varieties. Others differ completely from the elongated shape, are round, square, triangular and everything in between. These shapes tend to be more cumbersome when the assortment of other plates and meals are, so far, by serving plates, a thin elongated shape can be set, creating less traces on the table.
In general, olives can be stored on an olive ship overnight or in the refrigerator if they are covered to prevent them from drying out. If you have mixed varieties in the olive ship, they can get new and surprising flavors, POKUD allows you to sit together, which is something you might want to consider. You can also add other pickled meals to the olive ship such as arti -artist's heart, baked red peppers, written cheeses, etc.