Plate 33 x 27 cm rectangular "Re-Active Tierra

L 33,0 x B 27,0 x H 2,0 x Q 41,0 cm

Art.Nr. RT 233 - . . . . .

The special use properties of this item

As it is well known, the eye eats with you and from a certain size a serving plate matures into a real eye-catcher. Thus, the opulent size of this event plate made of reactive porcelain already raises any food - prepared and served on it - to a visual highlight. This creates attention and impression. With a proud size of 33 x 27 cm, the food and serving plate accommodates enormous capacities and arrangements, or provides an exciting setting for decorating food. In trendy restaurants, large plates are very popular because they are particularly suitable for placing fry baskets, bowls and side dishes for wedges, sticks, dips and sauces in addition to modern trendy meals such as steaks, meat and fish.

Skewers, draped diagonally, can find up to a length of 39 cm on this flat serving plate. Decorated lengthwise, fish or other meals up to 30.5 cm can be served. Next to it, there is still plenty of space for salads and side dishes. In the push business, the plates can also be extremely heated at the pass or under thermal bridges due to the high quality of the porcelain (please read below) and thus provide valuable assistance for high guest satisfaction. The flat design of this food plate facilitates the filleting and carving of meals and is therefore particularly well suited for table consumption.

However, these porcelain plates are also well suited for decorating meat, fish, cheese, sausage and cold cuts in the table service, on buffets and in the breakfast business. Clever is the possibility of combination with the smaller 27 plate, with which together you can create any buffet mosaics without any loss of space. In the modern dinner service, this modern shape replaces the classic meat plate. Its flat shape facilitates pre-portioning and cold storage, so that any number of cold cuts plates can be resupplied a la minute. The urban design of the buffet plate underlines the modern zeitgeist.

Giant 41 cm porcelain plates in gastronomic porcelain quality not only have their price, but also a decent dead weight. The plate brings just under 1.7 kg on the scale and requires corresponding when putting in and out. For this, not only the reactive glaze is of rarity, but also the huge size of diagonally 41 cm. The hard porcelain design makes the serving platter much more durable and stable than its ceramic counterparts with reactive glazes. We would have liked to make it lighter, but porcelain is one of the densest materials on earth and thus keeps the food warm much longer than, for example, tempered glass, melamine or ceramics.

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The design and character of the porcelain series Tierra


The name TIERRA stands for our earth and combines the earthen minerals of porcelain with the design and color of this series. Tierra does not only stand for naturalness and grounding, it rather forms the base of all life forms from which we get our food. This, on brown Tierra porcelain, the colors of the individual meals act quite differently than on white porcelain. While the white significantly highlights and enhances the character of individual food components, on the brown of Tierra porcelain they melt together into a more natural overall image. The green of a lettuce leaf, the yellow of a potato and even the red of meat juices seem more quiet and more subtle, melting together as an orchestra of delights.

Reactive porcelain of earthen colors tends to serve the pleasure of sheer simplicity, grounding the food presented in a natural overall image. White porcelain, on the other hand, highlights the effect of the culinary arts and thus also visually emphasizes the taste experience.

The reactive porcelain Tierra gets its unique character from the special technique of applying and firing the reactive metallica pigments, which give the surface an exciting and three-dimensional perception in a brown-black structure. The reactive effect is evident in our porcelain - quite unlike many other ceramic tableware - through the "true reactive glazes" and not just the application of a handful of solitary dots. We fire with Tierra real hard porcelain reactive and achieve not only a unique design, but also a 100% commercial suitability as hard porcelain in a "Modern Trend of Colors".



The outstanding fact about the reactive glazes of Holst Porcelain is their combination variety among themselves. Thus Musgo, Carbon, Coral, Arena, Granito, Moreno and Tierra can be combined to exciting and always new, homogeneous serving combinations as "mix & match porcelain". Above all, they are not only combinable with themselves, but also melt together harmoniously with all white porcelain series as a deliberately arranged highlight.

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The special features of the material and glaze

The outstanding feature of the articles in the "Reactive Trend" series from Holst Porzellan is the realization of a reactive glaze on high-firedfeldspar-porcelain above 1.320 °COnly this way real hard porcelain is created, whos properties are not subject to any natural aging process

In contrast to most of the reactive tableware on the market, which is predominantly offered on a lower fired ceramic, stoneware or Vitreous China, this article is made of genuine, high-quality feldspar porcelain (hard porcelain). On the development and implementation of the reactive porcelain, we have researched more than three years together with our partner factory and invested a lot of time and money to realize this reactive tableware "fit for professional use" in the quality level hotel porcelain. In fact, originally this urban decoration type comes from fine ceramics finishing, which has matured to new popularity thanks to an English manufacturer. However, even this Vitreous China does not match the hardness and density of the real feldspathic porcelain, and therefore quickly shows fatigue in commercial use. Established porcelain manufacturers have simulated reactive porcelain via decals and simply applied the reactive pattern as a full decal on a standard colored article. In fact, this has created beautiful decal images, but the character of a handmade, urban porcelain simply cannot be implemented in style on 0-8-15 standard items.

We perceived this gap in the market as a challenge for a true porcelain professional and set to work. After three years of intensive research, we were able to present true reactive porcelain on natural, hand-crafted characterizing molds to the professional world. And that's not even cheating, because every item in the "Reactive Trend" collection is made by hand in a small porcelain manufactory with great effort and attention to detail.

Each piece is unique!

This combines the modern zeitgeist of treny decals with the good properties of genuine hard porcelain. Exactly therein lies the difference to many purely externally similar looking dishes. Unfortunately many suppliers now describe inferior ceramic tableware as porcelain due to ignorance or incorrect information from the manufacturer. We guarantee a hard firing above 1.320 °C and that makes all the difference.

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Hardness and stability of our reactive porcelain
In order to equip the porcelain mass in such a way that the reactive glaze succeeds, we had to make use of mineral additives that make the process of ion plating possible, even in the high-firing range above 1.320 °C. As an "unintended side effect" needle mullit formation, which is exclusive to porcelain, increased and further hardened the body.

The result is a porcelain that is even superior to Alumina porcelain in terms of mechanical resistance - i.e. edge impact resistance! Following the edge impact tests our reactive porcelain even survives being hammered with 0.4 Joule. This corresponds to an incredible stability and is therefore "harder" than any commercial hotel porcelain! See for yourself in the video above the result of a series of tests.


Tests conducted in early 2020 have shown that our reactive tableware can withstand a temperature load of up to 350 °C. This is not particularly unusual for high-quality feldspar porcelain. But what fascinated us ourselves were the measurements in the shock range. the tested flat parts (plates and platters) of reactive porcelain easily withstood a thermal shock of +- 182 °C. However, in order to fully test the property of thermal shock resistance, we need "official" laboratory tests. A decision to invest in this expensive and time-consuming determination procedure has not yet been made. Therefore, we can only state that in our test furnaces a thermal shock of +- 182 °C was easily survived. However, we cannot guarantee it at present yet! To be continued

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Please allow us to point out that there are only a few porcelain manufacturers in the world who can produce reactive glazes on high-fired hard porcelain above 1.320 °C like our articles of the "Reactive Trend Series". More than 90% of tableware of this type offered on the market is produced on stoneware, earthenware or similar ceramic tableware. Please read the assessments and results of the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment from 09/2020: