A Smashing Time, Or Hopefully Not?

[Kannon Fodda]

I'd like to arrive at a destination without finding that plates, glasses and such like are in fragments. OK you might say don't drive over those speed humps so fast, but we all know there will be that pothole you can't avoid.

Plastic glasses are often horrible. Somehow your beer or wine, let alone a nice malt whisky don't taste the same.

Fine dining chinaware is asking for it, but what recommendations are there for reasonably robust glasses, plates, bowls, mugs? I won't be holding dinner parties, and it's a compact van so I won't be needing an extensive set of anything, but a couple of pint sized glasses, and tumblers, plates and bowls could be good.

And any recommendations on stowage. Is the antislip drawer stuff enough, or should things be wrapped up somehow? I suspect there is a balance between inadequate protection and spending hours unwrapping everything before you can use it.

 

[Speve]

Corelle is really tough and light also pack some tea towels or kitchen towel around each plate when stacking. We’ve been travelling far and wide the last seven years without breakage.
Just put the mockers on that then we will probably bust something now???

 

[DavidG58]

Denby pottery with a piece of that non slip matting in between each piece

Glasses all have a crocheted sleeve cover, ask Bev she loves making them and will turn a few more out on demand

 

[mitzimad]

we use short stemmed tublers from ikea and they sell interlocking padded sock drawer dividers that fit the glasses perfectly
http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-5...0001&campid=5338547443&icep_item=183892174425 looks like ikea have stopped doing them and the glases we have

 

[shawn&emma]

We've used a set of Sainsbury's white crockery, just the cheap ones for the last 10 years. Never broke any but have chipped a couple of the large plates but that's just us when taking in/out of cupboards. We use the rubber non slip matting stuff you can buy, we've cut it to fit the size of each plate/bowl and that way get no rattles. We also do the same with wine/pint glasses and up until about 2 weeks ago hadn't smashed one, had to be my cut glass tumbler I use for my rum and coke, doesn't taste the same in a half pint glass.

Shawn

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[Jimbohorlicks]

Never had anything broken in transit, its opening the doors too quick when you park up is the problem

 

[TheBig1]

correle is great, we have some 30 years old. but have also found the ikea version at 50p a plate to be excellent. both nearly unbreakable, separate with strips of non slip mat to stop any rattles

 

[denisejoe]

We use the Ikea "Corelle" lookalikes. Only 50p a piece. They're plain white so if you break one it's easy to get another. Having said that we've never broken any in either motorhome or caravan. We just have some of the non-slip mat on the base of the cupboard and then a piece on top of the plates, then small plates another piece of matting and then the bowls.

Glasses we keep in divided boxes that you buy them in. We carry 6 long stemmed wine glasses; 2 large & 2 small tumblers & 2 lager glasses. We also have a couple of Ricard glasses which are wrapped in the non slip matting and kept in a drawer.

The only breakages have been when one of us forgets the stop and trips up it!

Denise

 

[Kannon Fodda]

So it seems the answer is some padding, if only to stop rattles, rather than a real need for protection if you get something hardy.

Looks like it might be a trip to Ikea. Horrible place. I think the nearest one to me at Reading, has been known to trap people there for 4 hours or more trying to escape the badly designed car park exit road.

 

[Janine]

I keep my corelle-type plates in a plastic container, interleaved with paper plates. They stop the rattles and can be used if feeling really lazy

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[M-J]

Ikea version of Corelle, much cheaper and just as good, we store in our built in crockery storage with kitchen roll between each bit.

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