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We use melamine for everything. John Lewis do some really nice stuff. We have to have proper glasses for wine though.

P.S. Melamine comes up sparkling in the dish washer as does the stainless steel tea pot !

Quote: Originally posted by shirl250 on 21/3/2011

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Melamine comes up sparkling in the dish washer

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Thanks for all of your replies, I think we will try and get a decent melamine set for eating off and have some real mugs for drinking out of and see how we go.

To those of you that use crockery do you store it in the overhead cupboards when travelling - if so do you wrap it or just simply store it as usual.

I am wondering whether to buy melamine when we get our van, we have loads of spare crockery having recently changed a set but I worry about the storage

Quote: Originally posted by Dorset Paul on 15/5/2011

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quite simply.... Crockery everytime for me.

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Crockery for us. We do have Melamine salad serving bowls and plates and bowls etc for if the grandchildren are visiting/staying. But for us to use the crockery comes  out. We have tried and tried eating from Melamine but it just doesn't seem right. Infact I ended up scraping my dinner onto a crockery plate to finish the meal and that meant more washing up to do when I should have been finishing the bottle of wine in a proper wine glass(purchased from Tesco 4 for 89p a few yrs ago)

We store the crockery in the overhead locker above the sink, for travelling I put t-towels(that stay in van) in between and put a small cushion in the front. Never had any breakages. 

Glasses are kept in the drinks cabinet in holders. Again never had a breakage, well not due to travelling, just due to someone drinking a bit too much and missing the table...........