Some mugs bought some mugs for the boat

[TheEcho]

When we got our boat a couple of months ago we bought a set of melamine type mugs, bowls and plates from an outdoors shop so we wouldn't have to worry about breakages. We have been using them since and initially they seemed pretty sturdy as well as smart.

Today I was making the tea as usual when one of the mugs split across the base and boiling tea went all over the cabin. When I examined it I saw small print across the bottom saying that boiling water should not be put in the mug. The bowls should also be used for cold food only, <40 degrees C. So they are all going in the bin and we will be using regular china in future.

If anyone else has made the same foolish assumptions as us, check your picnicware is OK for hot meals and drinks lest a nasty accident happens!

 

[Robert Wilson]

Mine OK, but thanks for the alert.

"Quest Tableware. OK for +100C/-10C. Dishwasher safe, but not microwave." Phew.

Sorry to hear of your experience. Big shock, no doubt.

 

[TheEcho]

I don't know what was the bigger shock, the drink going everywhere or the fact that someone in Britain, of all places, can conceive of and sell a mug that won't hold tea!

 

[lw395]

SWMBO managed to break some plastic wine glasses between seeing them on the shop shelf and getting them to the till.

 

[nimbusgb]

Melamine in a microwave is a recipe for serious burns!

 

[Simondjuk]

One word... Corelle.

 

[prv]

My mum went off and bought a full set of twee nautical melamine when we got Kindred Spirit. I'd been planning to get Corelle, but she got there first.

The mugs got tea-stained and always tasted funny, and the plates got scratched from cutting stuff on them. Never broke, of course, but then we never dropped them anyway.

We left the melamine on Kindred Spirit when we sold her and bought some ordinary china for Ariam. A cheerful spotty pattern that sort of matches the interior colours, but no kitschy little anchors and knot-boards. No breakages so far, but we have spares at home just in case.

We do have some good-quality plastic glasses; people usually mistake them for real glass until they pick them up.

Pete

 

[Simondjuk]

I'm not sure why anyone buys melamine stuff.

We've had regular china crockery and glass glasses on boats for ages without a single breakage. We only bought the Corelle because it stows so easily and efficiently due to being lighter and thinner.

We've got some, though not many now, wine glasses on board which are so thin that I occasionally snap a stem off or break a piece out of the rim of one when washing or drying them, but we've not broken any whilst sailing.

 

[Iliade]

I bought cheap brown fake pyrex plates mugs and bowls about thirty years ago. I still have some left.

They bounce when dropped on board. They sink when dropped overboard. It's only when dropped onto stone or concrete piers that they break...

 

[GaryE]

+1

 

[Storyline]

We use a mixture of stoneware and porcelain for mugs. It is amazing how much stronger the porcelain is, dammed clever those Chinese !

 

[dylanwinter]

buy cheap china and glasses

replace often

eclectic selection of styles, colours and patterns on Katie

the good survive - the bad die

D

 

[snowleopard]

We went for Melamine tableware. It's surprisingly difficult to find stuff without flags and anchors - we don't need to be reminded we're on a boat! The mugs soon got irretrievably stained so we ditched them and replaced them with souvenir mugs from our ports of call. Glasses are polycarbonate - I don't fancy shards of glass embedded in the mats & carpets for bare feet to find.

 

[Easticks28]

When we got our boat a couple of months ago we bought a set of melamine type mugs, bowls and plates from an outdoors shop so we wouldn't have to worry about breakages. We have been using them since and initially they seemed pretty sturdy as well as smart.

Today I was making the tea as usual when one of the mugs split across the base and boiling tea went all over the cabin. When I examined it I saw small print across the bottom saying that boiling water should not be put in the mug. The bowls should also be used for cold food only, <40 degrees C. So they are all going in the bin and we will be using regular china in future.

If anyone else has made the same foolish assumptions as us, check your picnicware is OK for hot meals and drinks lest a nasty accident happens!

Return to vendor for refund stating 'Not fit for purpose'.

 

[nimbusgb]

We went for Melamine tableware. It's surprisingly difficult to find stuff without flags and anchors - we don't need to be reminded we're on a boat! The mugs soon got irretrievably stained so we ditched them and replaced them with souvenir mugs from our ports of call. Glasses are polycarbonate - I don't fancy shards of glass embedded in the mats & carpets for bare feet to find.

Mats and carpets on a boat!!!!!



Wine out of a plastic vessel is just nasty. Coffee and tea need to be in a mug, my only complaint about porcelain is that it allows the contents to cool so much quicker. Earthenware is better.

Must admit that our plates, bowls and serving dishes are melamine type stuff though.

 

[nimbusgb]

We went for Melamine tableware. It's surprisingly difficult to find stuff without flags and anchors - we don't need to be reminded we're on a boat! The mugs soon got irretrievably stained so we ditched them and replaced them with souvenir mugs from our ports of call. Glasses are polycarbonate - I don't fancy shards of glass embedded in the mats & carpets for bare feet to find.

You are not trying very hard! ebay and amazon tons of results and barely a anchor or a flag among them!

 

[windlipper]

Bought Strahl "unbreakable" glassware for the boat. Bit pricey but collected it over a period of time now got collection of whisky, wine, beer glasses and tumblers. Look and feel like glass really pleased with them.. Did this because worried about bits of broken glass going all over the place. Use ordinary cheap crocks for the rest, if they break they break and not as difficult to pick up as glass. (Had them 4 years and not broke any yet!)

 

[Pye_End]

I use largely stainless (thermal) or Pyrex mugs. Plates, bowls and 'glasses' I bought about 20 years ago from a good quality source - probably Lewis, and they have been excellent. The glasses when new were not distinguishable from the real thing (till you picked them up). They could do with being replaced, but I cannot find anything as good as these.

 

[vyv_cox]

We buy touristy cheap china mugs as we go along, replacing them occasionally, although we have never broken one. It's quite nice to remember pleasant places previously visited when drinking tea or coffee.

 

[prv]

We went for Melamine tableware.

Surely on a catamaran you need this even less than us leany-over boats?

Glasses are polycarbonate - I don't fancy shards of glass embedded in the mats & carpets for bare feet to find.

That's the reason we have plastic glasses, at my mum's insistence. A broken plate is annoying, but it won't shred your feet.

That said, last time I bought a load of pint glasses for home, a lot of the ones online were made of safety glass, like a car windscreen, to stop chavs glassing each other in pubs. Maybe that's what I should have got for the boat.

Pete