Plates and drinking glasses recommendations

[niget2002]

DW picked up a stack of plastic plates, bowls and cups from the 50 cent bin at Walmart. They say they're dishwasher and microwave safe. I've learned from using Tupperware forever that even if it says microwave safe, it's best to run the microwave at half power for a longer time to cook the food. Get better outcome that way anyways.

 

[Larry N.]

Larry, you sure can’t go wrong with breakfast burritos, whether for breakfast, lunch, or dinner! Sadly it seems like you left off the most important ingredient - more green chilis!

Smothering the whole thing in LOTS of (medium) 505 maintains that "New Mexico" flavor quite well, and is nicely spicy without being the really HOT spicy that makes my head sweat- I used to love it that way, but the ol' bod no longer likes it, so eliminating the additional green chilis is our way these days, and it's still delicious.

 

[rvlifer]

for more easily breakable items such as stemmed wine glasses we use regular less breakable types or plastic versions. For things like plates we stopped using "rv safe" alternatives. I dont remember where i learned this tip but if you run a bead of clear silicone on the bottom of any plate or cup it will hold up very well in an rv. The silicone provides a shock absorber and anti skid surface. We havent lost a ceramic plate since we started doing that.

That doesnt fully protect everything but we have found it to be a good enough solution to use standard stuff in the rv and make it feel more like a home than camping. The point about a kitchen being in the back is a good one. The stuff in the back of our rv wheels bounces around a lot more than the front so if our kitchen was in the back the silicone wouldnt work as well

 

[Larry N.]

We love to eat and drink well when on the road and would prefer to have nice plates and glassware, but also concerned about breakage and storage. Any suggestions?

Corelle dinnerware is good stuff, and resists breakage very well, though it's not quite impossible to break. We've used plastic wine glasses and stuff from Dollar Tree, which looks nice and comes in packages with several in it. And you can look through some of the plastic glasses in various stores, where we've found a few (it's been a while) that were rather nice looking.

We have some of these Tervis glasses that not only look good, but are well insulated, too, keeping ice in them (without lids), sometimes for several hours:

Amazon.com

 

[Oldgator73]

We love to eat and drink well when on the road and would prefer to have nice plates and glassware, but also concerned about breakage and storage. Any suggestions?

We used to put anything soft between the plates (wash clothes, hand towels, or that spongy stuff used for drawer lining). We had a mid kitchen so didn’t have to worry about it so much.

 

[John From Detroit]

Corelle dinnerware is good stuff, and resists breakage very well,

Was going to say the very same thing.. You beat me to it

 

[UTTransplant]

Yet another vote for Corelle. It handles regular bouncing without issue, though it if drops from a top cabinet onto a tile floor where they shatter into a thousand pieces instead of a clean break. (Don’t ask how we know!) For glasses, we found some really nice plastic ones we like. They stack well and look good. Wine glasses are mostly the metal stemless ones with a lid, though we do have four stemless glass ones that stay in their box until we use them. A trick for plates is to store them upside down. For some reason they don’t slide as much.

 

[1stimerver]

LOL we have a set of plastic cocktail glasses and a few melamine or corel plates and bowls, not sure which, that we use for one type of meal. Other times we use paper plates and bowls, according to the situation. Both work for us, and survived the bouncing etc.
Its not like you need a diploma to figure that one out. We havent lost anything to bounce damage for the last 8 years.
Safe travels and all the best.

 

[CharlesinGA]

This thread is a couple of years old, revived. I then mentioned paper plates, the thinnest, weakest ones possible, as they minimize the trash, and cost, but save on the cleanup and limited water and waste tank capacity. The plastic plates I put them in are flat bottom so the plate sits in it nicely.

Charles

 

[Domo]

We go to goodwill and thrift store. That's where we get plastic everything, Glasses with palm trees, plates with multi-colored flowers, etc. We use them inside and out and if they break, we have an excuse to go to another shop and look for stuff we don't need. We don't want the danger of glass shards in the MH or leaving them behind in a campground for some child to get embedded in a foot - or WORSE, some puppy eating or rolling in the glass!

 

[Professor David]

We like these plastic plates/bowls/glasses for the RV.

Amazon.com