Stopping Crockery From Smashing

[matthewriches]

Hi all,

Bit of a funny one but how do i stop my crockery from smashing!?!

Part time live aboard but with over 600hp of engine, plates and mugs get smashed... regularly.

I have yet to find any device to stop things banging around in the cupboards. Again, it is a useable live aboard, so packing away plates every weekend is a bit of a chore.

TIA!

 

[PotatoNavigator]

We use metal plates for Indian restaurants, you can get them at most cash and carry type places.

 

[duncan99210]

We've been using the same set of Ikea crockery for some years now since we abandoned melaware. We use tea towels to cushion the plates and glasses so that they can't move in the cupboard: just stuff them in until all the spare room is full of tea towels. But we only have a sail boat, so not too much in the way of vertical movement, mostly side to side. Perhaps a layer of softish closed cell foam on the bottom of the locker for things to stand on (the sort of stuff sold in thin sheets as packing material, several thicknesses would do) to absorb the vertical element of motion plus the tea towel trick might suffice.

 

[Topcat47]

Try bubble wrap, but the secret is to put things away after use. I have a couple of bone china mugs that have lasted nearly 10 years hanging from hooks by their handles. Of course I have a sailing boat, not a power boat so minimal crashing about. Most of my other stuff is plastic picnic wear.

 

[pmagowan]

Get pegs for your cupboards that hold the stacks of plates in place.

 

[Pye_End]

Pyrex mugs and melamine plates.

 

[Jabs]

Loads of car wash sponges from the Pound Shop and stuff cushions and pillows in whilst underway!

Tony.

 

[nigelmercier]

Pyrex mugs and melamine plates.

Agree about the plates, but I've just got chunky Tesco mugs that don't seem to chip.

 

[pvb]

My old HR had a system of wooden pillars which pushed in to a grid of holes in the plywood base of the locker, enabling different sized pots to be restrained easily.

 

[vyv_cox]

We use crockery and glasses in our motorhome and have never had one break in transit, although Jill has dropped a few of them. All plates and saucers are interleaved with bits of non-slip mat. All cups and glasses are nested in tea towels and oven gloves.

 

[PotatoNavigator]

My old HR had a system of wooden pillars which pushed in to a grid of holes in the plywood base of the locker, enabling different sized pots to be restrained easily.

Genius :encouragement:

 

[RichardS]

Buy a catamaran?

Richard

 

[ex-Gladys]

All plates and saucers are interleaved with bits of non-slip mat. All cups and glasses are nested in tea towels and oven gloves.

A couple of sheets of kitchen roll have provided the same service on Gladys for 11 years, yet to have a "break in transit"

 

[adwuk]

Buy a catamaran?

Seeing as folks with less than 600hp and more canvas don't have a problem, shouldn't it be "buy a sailing boat?"

 

[AntarcticPilot]

? Use Corelle plates (like the old Pyrex ones, in a reasonable range of designs)? I admit I use melamine mostly, but I do have a set of toughened glass mugs that seem to be indestructible.

 

[fisherman]

How about a block of foam with slots for plates. Might get a bit manky after a while.

 

[prv]

Use Corelle plates

That's what I was going to suggest. All the talk of how people secure their plates in sailing boats are not really relevant to the motion of a planing mobo.

Pete

 

[Momac]

We do have melamine plates but have gone to real glasses and mugs. They are fairly tightly packed in a cupboard so they can’t move far . On some very lumpy stuff last summer we didn’t get a breakage. In one of the under seat lockers we have some of those supermarket wine bottle carrier bags which serve to protect drinking glasses just a s well as they do for wine bottles.

 

[bigwow]

We have these on Bigwow, the only plates broken up to now have been broken washing up.:encouragement:

https://www.locksonline.com/Stainle...s-10130.html?gclid=CKzeyNeeyssCFeQp0wod0NAH-A

 

[Ric]

Just eat your scoff out of the tin.