Quote: Originally posted by Francais on 02/5/2016
Another vote for Corelle, although we don't use Corelle mugs, as they are made from regular pot, for mugs we use Luminarc.
I managed to break one of our Luminarc mugs this week, it smashed spectacularly; into about a million tiny shards.
Moral of this story is: they are considerably tougher than common or garden mugs but, when they do break, they are lethal! It's made me think about taking regular mugs when we next go camping.
Quote: Originally posted by janicesetter on 02/5/2016
I am sure this has been asked before but do you use melamine or ceramic, if ceramic do you wrap it when in transit ?
If you wash your pots in the van I'd go for Corelle (as already mentioned in the thread - lighter than standard plates but still heavier than melamine) but if you cart your stuff to the dishwashing facilities I'd stick with melamine, because of the weight.
Just one thing, not all melamine is the same. We've had several sets over the years (changing for that all-important colour-coordination!) and have found the best we've had so far is made Quest and by Outwell.
I had thought about the splintering issue with Corelle if broken, we have decided to ditch our Melamine and get a cheap and cheerful set of ceramic pots.
We use melamine but we are fussy about our cups we use china which are all saftley stored in cupboard I am still trying to find a replacement cereal dish with bramble pattern
Mixture - used to be all melamine, apart from the mugs and they were ASDAs basic 4 for £1 ones. Now the mugs are from and over order of those advert mug, that I have been given.
I have recently added some ceramic plates and bowls to my stock - from a local charity shop. Got to admit that the melamine have the weight/space advantage.
The only thing that is always plastic are glasses. I just buy a load of of those slightly heavier ones and see how they last.
Crockery is cheap - then it doesn't matter is it accidentally gets lost.
Believe me, I have managed to loose the odd bit, despite checking, double and treble checking the washing up area.
I have also acquired the odd fork or two which I am sure wasn't there before I started to wash up. And that I have only notice when I get home or the net trip.
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Topic: Crockery
