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Hi everyone, just after a bit of advice regarding cookware/crockery for motorhome. Do most people buy the lightweight/collapsable pans, Melamine tableware or just use what they have in their kitchens at home.
Had a quick look on various camping/caravan sites & ebay and to be honest the dedicated camping stuff does not seem too expensive, probably won't be doing loads of cooking yet anyway till we get used to van etc.
Cheers
Peter
 
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For crockery, cutlery, I visited Ikea. Plates, bowls I got their correlle equivalent - a sort of coloured glass rather than china, which you could buy individually rather than as sets. Means you only get what will fit in your van, and perhaps 1 extra as a spare in case of breakage. But they are quite tough, and much nicer than eating off the melamine plates. I just protect them when stored in drawers, when driving along by separating layers with a bit of the rubberised anti-slip drawer liner matting.

Glasses, I hate drinking beer / wine from plastic so just bought chunky tumblers and pint glasses from Ikea (no point getting stuff with stems as those will be vulnerable), and again wrap with the anti slip foam while travelling. Some have the space in their van they can have a deep foam padding in the drawer with cut outs for individual items, and they might be more adventurous with the fragiliity of their glassware

For pots and pans, I was able to get Amazon Basics version of the Tefal Igenio non stick. Great as being with detachable handle they stack so cram into the small cupboard space well. Stuff a couple of tea towels in between to stop rattles when on the move. Remember with pots and pans there may be a maximum diameter that suits your cooker.
 
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No, you're not going for a picnic - so, no to melamine/plastic

I too, favour lookalike Correlle, got plain white from the range.
Normal mugs for tea
Tumblers, that look like wine glasses with their stems cut off for refreshment.

Pans - the standard ones are too big for one, so got some dinky ones - but have Ingenio at home.
 
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We kept our melamine camping plates and bowls. They store in an overhead cupboard so don't want too much weight up high and find them fine for eating off. Mugs are china ones stored in a "Muggi". Pans are cheap Tesco ones that don't stack very well, but do OK and have non-slip matting in-between the lids and pan. Glassess are glassware Ex pub pint pots, a few specialised ones and wine glasses are the steamed or steamless. All glassware in foam pads or another muggi.

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Pots and pans we tend to use what we had at home. Got a few more to choose from now as we recently changed to an induction hob at home, so the aluminium stuff no longer works.

Cheap stainless steel cutlery from IKEA, expensive Corelle plates and bowls, and ordinary china mugs. We hate eating from plastic.

Most importantly we have proper glasses to drink out of. 4 wine glasses, 2 beer glasses, 2 brandy glasses, 2 shot glasses and 3 tall tumblers, all stored in that keeps them from breaking. Not saying we drink much ......... honestly :ROFLMAO: .
 
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I just use 'Churchill Hotelware' as I refuse to eat from plastic plates and other poor camping type substitutes for proper crockery!

The crockery gets put loose in a plastic box, in a cupboard - never broken anything (yet🙂)

Proper glassware - beer ones loose in same box as crockery, wine glasses in individual plastic storage boxes

For cookware, as my Moho has a ceramic type hob (diesel) I can't use all types of pans. I went for Judge stockpot pans as they are tall, smaller footprint, sit inside each other and have small handles that don't get in the way

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Another vote here for the Ikea plates (used to be called OFTAST but I think SAMTIDIG is the updated equivalent), we also have chunky wine glasses from Ikea, and cheap champagne flutes we bought in France (the cheap Ikea ones were too fragile). I made my own version of the Froli holder for the glassware (and mugs) using upholstery foam.

For cooking we now have Tefal Ingenio, but in our old MH we just had a couple of cheap non-stick saucepans, a frying pan and a saute pan.
 
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And another vote for the Ikea plates - we have 3 large plates, 2 small plates, 2 bowls and 2 tumbler Vardegan Ikea glasses - all made from the tempered glass. Ours travel inside a plastic lidded box, all separated with small thin pieces of cardboard, a tea towel over the top of the crockery with the 2 glasses carefully positioned on their sides with the wrapped cutlery squeezed along one edge. We also have 2 normal mugs inside a couple of protective mesh bottle sleeves:

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Love these, also use to hold my ball of wool for knitting as I pull from the middle of the ball.

Tefal Engenio for us as well, the 2 smallest saucepans with lids and smallest frying pan - only a small hob with 2 rings so no point taking masses of big pots and pans. We also have a ridge monkey with the detachable handle.
 
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I have Mason’s Ironstone crockery which is at least 100 years old, a Royal Doulton Bunnykins bowl (hubby likes to eat his muesli from his Bunnykins bowl and has done so for about 60 years), Stuart crystal glasses, Arthur Price cutlery and a variety of saucepans, including a wok. All bought from charity shops for a few pounds or pence.
 
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PCmag said:
Thanks for replies, looks like a trip to Ikea.
Cheers
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If you go to Ikea get some of this stuff, it’s great for making dividers to fit mugs and glasses and I also use some to divide up a plastic basket to store opened jars and small bottles that need to be upright. I do have lower drawers which make it easy to remove and replace things from the top.
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In an attempt to reduce our carbon footprint (ha) my other half decided to buy bamboo plates cups etc, which are lightweight easy to keep clean, very hard wearing, you cannot get good quality knives and forks though.
 
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Another vote for the IKEA Corelle type crockery, @50p per piece you can't go wrong. Also very easy to replace individually if need be, although never broken anything yet! We use cheap stainless cutlery.

Pans are Ingenio which we bought in France as much cheaper than buying here but would have bought the cheap ones from the likes of Aldi/Lidl if we didn't already have the Tefal ones.

Glasses have to be proper glass. We keep ours in divided boxes made from old wine boxes cut down. Works well.
 
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We use Corelle - lovely to eat off, and on one trip the overhead cupboard opened and a plate came out and smashed - I didn’t tell them it had fallen from a great height (naughty I know, but I gave to charity to atone) and they replaced it with no fuss.

I only use pans with small handles, we get ours from our local Indian store - Rajanis of Bristol. The pots are ceramic with ‘oven ready’ handles, so meals can be started on hob and finished in the oven. Plus having small handles they pack much easier into the drawer.

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Ikea corelle style crockery, half decent cutlery and real glasses.

More enjoyable to use and no breakages yet.

For pans we have standard kitchen non stick pans (tower brand I think) a larger stockpot with lid (Asda) and our Cadac paella pan.
 
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We use melamine but its a quality set which is at least 40 years old, possibly more, which I bought from a car boot sale many years ago. The plates are squarish so fit into the cupboard easier than a fully round one would and the bowls stack well. We mostly use some oval serving type platters though (see below) as they can accommodate all manner of meals, currys, stews, fry-ups, you name it so more versatile than a standard flat plate, we've had them around 20 years and they're still going strong although one has got a chip in the end caused when one of the dogs knocked it off the table ... fortunately it was sans-food! :oops: We prefer these to china etc as they don't do damage or splinter if dropped (a concern with dogs when away as we don't have a vacuum) and also don't cool food down as quickly.

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We also have some lovely 1970s Pyrex mugs which have a glass tumbler inner with a plastic handle/base (removable) so they can be used as mugs or glasses, due to the plastic base they stack well so I just use some mesh (similar to that in Mark and Mindy's post above) around the glass top with a slit for the handle, this stops any clinking - the mesh I use was actually the transit protector tubes for 5-star base office swivel chairs which I got from work man years ago ... it's a lovely Barbie pink colour! :giggle:

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All my pans live in the 'wardrobe' under the rear bed which is now my store and larder (its usually tidier than this but hubby had been 'rummaging' around in there! We have a small sized double skillet (bottom right) which gets the most use as individual frying pans rather than an 'oven' although we have used it as an oven too. In addition we have a pressure cooker with 2 different sized bases so we can use whichever is the most suitable for the job at hand, also we've got an enamel chip pan with a basket (top right) that can be suspended above the fat on 2 raised 'brackets' which is brilliant as we can leave stuff in the basket to drain rather than tipping it out and using tonnes of kitchen paper to dry it. We also have a lovely old fashioned milk 'kettle' pan with a jug type removable handle that hubby loves - you can just see the rim of it on the top left in the wardrobe (beige) - goodness knows what he'll do when it gets too battered to use! We have Tefal Ingenio pans and having had a large set I've found we generally only use a the small and medium saucepans and the deep saute pan.

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The Tefal pans have proved to be very good, however the handle is rather heavy and can easily tipple the smallest pan so you need to take care with it, we bought a couple of 'clamp' type handles which you can see below on the right and the two Tefal ones too, unfortunately the clamp ones have badly scratched the top of the pans but being much lighter than the original don't tip the pans over easily, the handle on the left is for the oven/grill tray (you can see some of the Barbie mesh rolled up in the drawer too:giggle:).

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We do have proper cutlery, kitchen knives and utensils but found cutting down the handle on serving spoons, ladles etc means they fit in the drawer better and don't get in the way so much on the smaller MH cooker top, I 'double stack' stuff in my deep drawer so it takes a lot of bits and bobs underneath leaving the most used stuff on top/accessible at the sides (yup I know it's a mess ... hubby rummaging again!:LOL:).

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For cooking pots, we have these, (Kampa Space Saving Deluxe Cooking Set) and find them excellent, they are slim so easily fit on our three burner hob, and seem well made
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Agree about the Ikea plates. We also have their kettle - looks good and has folding handle so stows easily.

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We use Duralex tempered glasses for wine & water - supposedly unbreakable but we did manage to smash one outside, so now travel with spares!

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Having recently changed vans I'm also changing everything to match the new furnishings. (As recently posted with lots of advice from Fun). I've had three trips to IKEA in three weeks for crockery (50p per piece, Corelle look-alike), glasses, duvet and covers and assorted kitchenware. Also bought loads of towels as I use these for all sorts - cheaper to cut up an IKEA bath sheet for cab seat covers than buying fabric by the metre. Another tip is to buy their flannels (£1 for 4) and stitch them up the sides to make pockets for cups/glasses etc. Stops breakages and rattling. A friend fellow motorhomer uses her other half's socks for the same purpose - but they don't match the furnishings - obsessive, moi? Never).
 
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As we do not live near an Ikea and hate melamine, its cheap white Corelli for us found in a closing down sale, cheap glass tumblers and wine glasses stored in little square felt tubs with a bit of foam insert to separate them. We use the cheaper version of Ingenio type stacking pots found on Amazon which can go in the oven as well as the hob and have plastic lids for storing leftovers in the fridge. We bought lightweight cutlery but it has not worn well so will revert to something decent when I get round to it.
 
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We have a white set of Corelle that we got cheap plus a couple of deeper pasta type bowls from Ikea which are very good. Tefal ingenio pans that I got on a deal at Clark's Village, the smaller ones in the van and the bigger ones at home. I really like the look of those Kampa pans though. Normal stainless steel cutlery, mugs and cheap glasses.
I know a few funsters got the Ingenio type pans in Lidls.
 
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carolyn said:
We have a white set of Corelle that we got cheap plus a couple of deeper pasta type bowls from Ikea which are very good. Tefal ingenio pans that I got on a deal at Clark's Village, the smaller ones in the van and the bigger ones at home. I really like the look of those Kampa pans though. Normal stainless steel cutlery, mugs and cheap glasses.
I know a few funsters got the Ingenio type pans in Lidls.
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I might have gone for the Kampa pots too if I had seen them😏 as really only use the smaller posts due to limited space on the hob. We also have a remoska which comes in handy When on hook up and can be used stood on a mat on the table which frees up space in the kitchen area.

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Nasher said:
Confused person here - how come there's only 3 items in the nested photo and 4 in the 'set'
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'cause the photo is just to show how they 'nest' ...

This is what's included:
  • 3 Steel pans
  • 1 Steel steamer/colander
  • Complete with tempered glass lids
 
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Minxy Girl said:
'cause the photo is just to show how they 'nest' ...

This is what's included:
  • 3 Steel pans
  • 1 Steel steamer/colander
  • Complete with tempered glass lids
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Thanks for that, so the Steamer doesn't nest with the pans - so not as much space saving as I thought
 
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Thanks for all your help & photo's, some great tips/ideas, really like the look of the kampa 3 pan set, would be ideal for us and reasonably priced.
Cheers
 
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Corelle plates, bowls, dishes.
Bone China mugs-lighter than plain China.
Cutlery & utensils from house and bought extras as needed.
Pans from house-hate nonstick.
 
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