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13/3/2012 at 12:36am
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With a proper plate/mug holder they should survive most lumps & bumps.
I use proper crockery, mainly because it's cheaper & easier to obtain.
Don't let a few chips put you off either, it's not the Ritz. But seriously, if you have the correct caravan crockery holder the crockery should survive.
I use stuff from charity shops, or supermarket value ranges, or Ikea type places.
My most recent stuff was all given to me by family.
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13/3/2012 at 7:29am
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I have always used melamine plates yet have one ceramic one to put in the oven. Always use ceramic mugs I hate melamine for tea or coffee . I put some bubble wrap around these when on the move. Free bubble wrap from tescos it's on the apples.
Melamine is lighter apart from won't break . We have had ours for 20 years and it's still like new. That is plates bowels and tea plates.
I also have a metal try to use in the oven.
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13/3/2012 at 7:46am
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Same here. Melamine plates/bowls but have to have proper glasses and cups.
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13/3/2012 at 7:49am
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Quote: Originally posted by clbewi on 13/3/2012
Same here. Melamine plates/bowls but have to have proper glasses and cups.
Us too
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13/3/2012 at 8:19am
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We have been using our old enamel plates, dishes, etc from our tenting days because I couldn't find a design I liked in melamine (and some of them are so expensive)! They are great for putting in the oven to keep things warm on or even just put the barbecued food in and covered with another to keep them warm.
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13/3/2012 at 9:08am
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We bought a melamine set but my husband still uses an old tin mug & plates which came with our first tent (ebay bargain package)
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13/3/2012 at 9:53am
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Like most others, we have melamine plates (probably go back to the 70s - they came with our first folding camper), but have 'proper' glasses and mugs. Ours are the 'Arcoroc' toughened glass ones that you can buy in French hypermarkets. I have also seen them in our local 'Warehouse Clearance Superstore' - don't know whether those are a national chain or not. We have kept the original packaging for quite a lot of these glasses, so they just get put back in their cardboard sleeves for travelling, but for odd items that don't have a box any more, we usually wrap them in the tea-towels for travelling. In the ten years of so that we have had these, we have only had two breakages, both times when something fell out of a locker and landed on the glass!
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13/3/2012 at 10:26am
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We use melamine everything except mugs, I do have one ceramic of each, small and large plate and a bowl incase I need to put them in the oven. I got a fantastic bargain off Ebay, full set of melamine for 6 people also serving bowls, egg cups and trays and only paid about £30 for it, all brand new. That was 4 years ago and it is all still immaculate.
This is something like what I got but a different pattern
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/33pc-MELAMINE-DINNER-STORAGE-SET-/260977388530?pt=UK_Campervan_Caravan_Accessories&hash=item3cc376ebf2
Some of the storage and serving things have been really handy.
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13/3/2012 at 10:50am
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melamine but ceramic cups
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13/3/2012 at 10:56am
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Arcopal 'coloured glass' type for me and myself and a few melamine plates and bowls for visitors. Certainly no melamine cups or mugs. The Arcopal is great if you have a microwave and it will even survive quite high temperatures in the gas oven. In over 20 years of using it I have never had a breakage. It is a bit heavier than melamine and you may find that there are various thickness options but even the thinnest ones seem robust enough for caravanning.
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13/3/2012 at 11:01am
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We have had our set of Melamine crockery for over 12 years and its still like new it was a very expensive set but perhaps you get what you pay for sometimes.
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13/3/2012 at 1:52pm
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Oh wow! I though I was nutty (as did dh) when I announced that I wanted China mugs now we have the caravan. I too don't like drinking tea out of plastic so bought 4 denby mugs for £1.99 each st Clarks village last week. So so glad its not just me. We do use plastic for everything else. Except pots and pans ang and now two baking trays as well
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13/3/2012 at 2:31pm
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We have melamine plates and dishes but have proper mugs for tea.
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) But that is simply because I had a set of 4 for my tent camping, so I put 2 of them in the caravan. There was 2 long glasses in the 'van when I bought it.
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