Practical "Tableware" (ie Not All Over the Deck Ware) when Underway

When climbing in the alps we always had the babies tomee tippi type mugs, with the screw on lid you can drink out of for bivvies, the handles either side could be clipped onto the rockface or a sac with krabs. Clipping may be overkill on a boat with cup holders, but the lid part of it would still be a winner.
 
You can certainly get mugs with bases wider than the top to give them more stability.

The Sistema type products seem to be a fairly soft plastic which gets scratched by eating irons. Probably OK with plastic cutlery.
 
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Jonny A said:
Old fashioned dog bowls do work, my brother ate out of one on an Atlantic crossing.
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No good for drinks though.

Our Alladin wide base mugs do drink and food when on passage.

In 15 years only one spill - I put my tomato soup down to trim a sail and left it on the high side cockpit seat.

We were finding little orange spots in the cockpit for weeks afterwards....................................

First Mate serves a proper breakfast in them.

Chopped bacon, left over potatoes, left over cold sausage, touch of onion, baked beans, all fried up and then a few eggs stirred in, served in our wide mouth mugs with a spoon.

Sets me up until lunch time!
 
geem said:
We use Corelle dinner set. Plates, bowls etc for normal use at anchor. On passage we use large plastic bowls for one pot meals. Mugs are conventional. Cant stand drinking out of plastic mugs. Tea doesnt taste right.
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Me too. Have Corelle for everything. Mugs are straight sided. Look like new after 10 years. I did search for Unzud out of curiosity. Cannot find it. IS there a type in the OP

TS
 
tudorsailor said:
Me too. Have Corelle for everything. Mugs are straight sided. Look like new after 10 years. I did search for Unzud out of curiosity. Cannot find it. IS there a type in the OP

TS
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great product really nice not to have scratched on the plates from cutting food as you get with melamine, bowls are a little small but now i have found the website (thanks we couldn't remember the proper name) we might be able to find something more suitable to a good stew!
 
Pot Noodle make some good bowls/cups We still have ashore some melanin tourquoise mugs and plates from 1976 approx which survived the rigours of life aboard a centaur and given they tended to sail at angle were very durable. Sistema are very good for use at work to keep your soup etc from canteen and far better than issue polystyrene cartons. They even have their own fitted spoon . I haven’t tried on board as we tend to manage with rolls and sandwiches etc if the China cannot be used.
 
Slowboat35 said:
Like most of us, I expect, I have a tableware set of unbreakable melamine crockery onboard.
However underway and especially in more boisterous weather even conventional mugs, let alone plates and bowls become hard to manage, if not useless simply due to their stability. When solo I'm quite happpy to eat meals out of the saucepan but there are times when a little more decorum is needed, or I simply don't have enough saucepans to go around.

I've been looking for a while for more practical eating and drinking vessels for use in the cockpit or cabin in heavier weather. Trouble is almost all landlubbers seem to design these things with cutesey shapes tapered to a narrowed bottom. Now I like a narrow bottom as much as the next sailor but what's really needed at sea is mugs and bowls that are no less than parallel all the way down, unbreakable and of suffcient size to take a whole can of soup (or decent portion of stew or chilli) with room to spare for sloppage. My ideal yottie bowl would be a tall wide-bottomed dogbowl but with vertical sides inside, impossible to tip over. Mugs are easier to manage as a "muggie" mug holder is the perfect accessory.

I've just discovered a remarkably suitable range of plasticware made in Unzud by a company called "Systema" - and it's available easily and cheaply in UK!

I have no connection with these people whatsoever, just thought to pass on a (as yet untested) reccommendation for their stuff, the 'Microwave' range looks the mutts nuts to me, big, lidded square-bottomed mugs able to hold a meal, and the 'breakfast' containers that are more like bowls, but broad-based and stable, again with lids. Someof their other stuff looks similar to Lock 'n lock which I swear by, though I haven't examined it yet.

There we are, just a suggestion...

And btw, has anyone found that high-sided dog-bowl? I really do want one!

What are your favourite feeding-troughs when underway? Anyone found a range with a non-slip base? That's what's really needed.
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Yes after 50K + miles as amateurish crew and being 3 score plus ten years The best place to get sensible onboard boat feeding the only place to go is a £1 shop
 
These on passage - non slip, foldable and 2 sections because you need somewhere to keep your bread before dipping into the one pot wonder being handed up to you. Wide based steel thermal mugs - one set for drinks, one for soups etc, coloured cable ties on the handles to differentiate who's is who's. I tried steel dog bowls and enamelled plates but my then-girlfriend-now-boatwife wouldn't have it.
Corelle china below and in the cockpit at anchor. Tough stuff but expensive.
 

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AndrewB said:
I have a set of Galleyware 8" bowls for serving almost all meals when on ocean passage. Basically a high-sided melamine dog-bowl with a non-slip base, ideal for food that's come out of a tin. See: Melamine Bowls - 8" Serving (White) | Galleyware Company. They do come in various colours, but seem to be only available in the USA.
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See post # 27 where I mentioned Gallyware.

OE when you buy a new Island Packet.

We use ours on the hook or alongside. Our wide base Alladin 20 oz mugs are used for both food and drink on passage.

Our old gallyware has six rubber buttons in the base for non slip, the newer bowls we bought - sound like yours - have an annular groove with a rubber ring pressed in.

The old stuff, from 1999, is losing its pattern on the two large plates we use most.

Still, 21 years boating use is not too bad, is it...............................
 
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rotrax said:
See post # 27 where I mentioned Gallyware.

OE when you buy a new Island Packet.

We use ours on the hook or alongside. Our wide base Alladin 20 oz mugs are used for both food and drink on passage.

Our old gallyware has six rubber buttons in the base for non slip, the newrer bowls we bought - sound like yours - have an annular groove with a rubber ring pressed in.

The old stuff, from 1999, is losing its pattern on the two large plates we use most.

Still, 21 years boating use is not too bad, is it...............................
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We also have Galleyware stuff which we think is tremendous. Bought with some difficulty in the States and shipped over to the UK. The rubber rings in the base are perfect.
Very appropriate for my US -made Sabre yacht.
Peter
 
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