Drinking glasses - best none breakable ?

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Portofino

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Hi ,
We have had a busy boat so far and next week some “posh “ guests arrive .
Up to now we use some sort of plastic glasses but they have all gone a cloudy colour ,we think it’s the Pastis .If so apart from the horrible opaqueness think about what’s being ingested inadvertently?
I don,t leave bottles plastic water in the car due to the release of poly phenols ( or something nasty ) .
So these plastic “ glasses “ on the boat seem a contradiction.

Wife reckons polycarbonate can take multiple dishwasher attacks and hopefully cope with Pastis without dissolving?

What’s everybody else using on board .

Is there a special ,if so named brand that’s superior or do we need to get real glass and be dammed if they inevitably break ?
 
Bin ‘em. I’ve gone back to glass. So much nicer and my boat is a wobbly, bouncy saily thing. No stabs. No regrets so far.
 
We went over to real glass about 4 years ago.
The few breakages have been when someone has knocked a glass over or nudged a table.
We keep cardboard packaging for the champagne flutes.
The wine glasses go in the cupboard with the coffee mugs - reasonably well packed in. But nothing to cushion between the glasses .
Not one loss while under way ...... despite a few waves.
Need to get a new champagne flute - 50p from Wilko.
 
We use glass-a cheapo set for wine and slightly nicer ones for long drinks.

Ours hang from a wire holder which keeps them apart enough not to "chink" too much and came from ebay-under a fiver.

The tall glasses live behind a wooden bar on a narrow shelf with non slip mat behind and under.

Only broken one in two seasons and over 3,000 NM's. I clouted it when moving something underneath the glass holder, catching the edge of the glass and cracking it.

So much nicer to drink from than plastic.
 
rotrax said:
We use glass-a cheapo set for wine and slightly nicer ones for long drinks.

Ours hang from a wire holder which keeps them apart enough not to "chink" too much and came from ebay-under a fiver.

The tall glasses live behind a wooden bar on a narrow shelf with non slip mat behind and under.

Only broken one in two seasons and over 3,000 NM's. I clouted it when moving something underneath the glass holder, catching the edge of the glass and cracking it.

So much nicer to drink from than plastic.
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Agreed. We use glass rather than plastic and in over 10 years I can only remember a few breakages. In that time many, many, many drinks have been poured!
 
You're right that it's the pastis - it's the only thing we use glass for. Apart from that we use the best polycarbonate we can find, and replace when it starts to go dull. I just don't like standing on broken glass in my bare feet!
 
Yep Kwarx. From amazon and drinkstuff. It’s what restaurants use. Very break resistant, and when it does break it is sort of elastic so you don’t get sharp edges in the same way as normal broken glass. (the sharp edge “pulls in”)
Fine in dishwasher.
Glass and China are so much nicer than plastic.
Not expensive- €5 each, ballpark.
 
jfm said:
Yep Kwarx. From amazon and drinkstuff. It’s what restaurants use. Very break resistant, and when it does break it is sort of elastic so you don’t get sharp edges in the same way as normal broken glass. (the sharp edge “pulls in”)
Fine in dishwasher.
Glass and China are so much nicer than plastic.
Not expensive- €5 each, ballpark.
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If it floats your boat, they can be engraved too.
 
Portofino said:
Hi ,
We have had a busy boat so far and next week some “posh “ guests arrive .
Up to now we use some sort of plastic glasses but they have all gone a cloudy colour ,we think it’s the Pastis .If so apart from the horrible opaqueness think about what’s being ingested inadvertently?
I don,t leave bottles plastic water in the car due to the release of poly phenols ( or something nasty ) .
So these plastic “ glasses “ on the boat seem a contradiction.

Wife reckons polycarbonate can take multiple dishwasher attacks and hopefully cope with Pastis without dissolving?

What’s everybody else using on board .

Is there a special ,if so named brand that’s superior or do we need to get real glass and be dammed if they inevitably break ?
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We have only ever use real glass, nothing else will do.
we have boat glass`s 32 yrs old we bought 7 & have 5 left also others coming up to 20 yrs 6 of them delicate Grolsh 250ml ones & not broken any ( yet).
We are a sailing yacht so less violent motion that a MoBo slamming in a seaway
 
jfm said:
Yep Kwarx. From amazon and drinkstuff. It’s what restaurants use. Very break resistant, and when it does break it is sort of elastic so you don’t get sharp edges in the same way as normal broken glass. (the sharp edge “pulls in”)
Fine in dishwasher.
Glass and China are so much nicer than plastic.
Not expensive- €5 each, ballpark.
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Was hoping you would chime in .
Admirals ordered a set of 250 ml .
We’ve always eaten off China it just over the years with kids about , we have freaked out risk wise with real glass .
Thanks everyone it’s been on one of those “to do lists “ too long since the kids have grown up .
 
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MapisM said:
Yuk! Ain't it much easier to get rid of pastis altogether... :confused: :p
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Only in the SoF we drink it .
Sure peasant drink made locally in the Var ,but and it’s a big BUT it does actually cool you down more and quicker then any other iced or none iced drink .
Downer it seems to opaque/ trash any plastic “glasses “
 
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