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Old 12-30-2006, 09:38 PM   #1
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What do you carry for travel dishes?

Thought this would be a good thread starter to see what everyone uses for dishes in the campers. I am currently collecting 50's/60's Melamine dishes by Westinghouse in the Ovation pattern. They came in Aqua, Yellow, Pink, and White. They are light weight and best of all they are unbreakable. My main idea was to get something that would go well with my Aqua appliances and interior colors. So I have chosen Aqua and Yellow for my colors. What do you all use for dinnerware in your trailer/motorhome? Ed
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Old 12-30-2006, 09:41 PM   #2
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We carry a new melamine-type set with Flamingos on the them, of course.
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Old 12-30-2006, 09:42 PM   #3
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Started with plastic plates, but use more paper plates lately...plus, when done we use them to start the campfires.
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Old 12-30-2006, 09:43 PM   #4
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We use Corelle - you can drop it, it won't break..(it might shatter in a million pieces if it's dropped just right)..you can also use it in the microwave oven..works great!..we also have an old set of melamine plates, that we use for outside potlucking..and also have paper plates..
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Old 12-30-2006, 09:46 PM   #5
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Concerned with weight in the trailer we, of course use a new melamine-type dinner plate purchased at Camping World. We also use plastic drinking cups (wine and juice type).
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Old 12-30-2006, 09:47 PM   #6
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Blue Enamelware. Light, campy, cheap and darn near indestructable. From REI or Walmart
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Yea, we started with plastic cups too, but went the disposable kind too and recycle when possible. Had standard silverware, but went to plastic too there as well.
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Old 12-30-2006, 10:33 PM   #8
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Beige stainless rimmed enamelware plates and bowls from Pier 1, paper plates for slumming, stoneware coffee cups from Pier 1, Glass stemware wine tasting souvenir wine glasses, acrylic drinking glasses.
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Old 12-30-2006, 10:41 PM   #9
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Corelle for all hot foods, plastic cups & plates for cold drinks and foods.

Now if you really want a snack that's "green" - get frozen food in a bag, clip the top and balance it between two cups in the microwave, then eat it with a fork by holding it in your hand with an oven glove! Packaging, cooking, serving with only one utinsel. (Of course it's only done when eating alone).

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Old 12-30-2006, 10:46 PM   #10
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Thought this would be a good thread starter to see what everyone uses for dishes in the campers. I am currently collecting 50's/60's Melamine dishes by Westinghouse in the Ovation pattern. They came in Aqua, Yellow, Pink, and White. They are light weight and best of all they are unbreakable. My main idea was to get something that would go well with my Aqua appliances and interior colors. So I have chosen Aqua and Yellow for my colors. What do you all use for dinnerware in your trailer/motorhome? Ed
hi biged52...

dinnerware is an interesting topic...

we've got a 3 year start of this topic here...

http://www.airforums.com/forum...hen-5410.html?

cheers
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Old 12-31-2006, 05:42 AM   #12
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Wine stemware

We love our wine and nice stemware; however, with breakage and space issues we now use plastic that our good friends VAJEEP gifted us. The stem unscrews and nests inside of the cup portion. No breakage, no weight and no storage issues. Sweet.
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Old 12-31-2006, 05:43 AM   #13
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Melamine from Camping World. Most of it survived being ejected from the cabinets until the canned food landed on them.
I do like the enamel idea but prefer the elegance of the design I chose since they are used all the time.
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Old 12-31-2006, 05:49 AM   #14
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Blue Enamelware. Light, campy, cheap and darn near indestructable. From REI or Walmart
We have the same thing. The set includes four of everything. We even have small expresso mugs...
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Old 12-31-2006, 06:03 AM   #15
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Corelle... a dinner set for thirty-two or so... I don't know WHERE my wife thinks all those folks are gonna sit... actually, I think it's a setting for twelve... and she insists that we have it... weight is no issue... at least not when it comes to dinnerware in OUR trailer!

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Old 12-31-2006, 06:10 AM   #16
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Not very 'green' (don't forget you have to use water, heat water and fill the grey tank), but I don't want to stand at the sink washing dishes on my valuable vacation time. It's paper and plastic all the way in various qualities depending upon the meal. The only exception is pot luck night, then the vintage pot luck plates come out, the ones that have all the little seperate compartments.
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Old 12-31-2006, 06:14 AM   #17
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bone china

We purchased some wedgewood fine bone china at a discount factory store the year we purchased the trailer. We love them. We haven't broken any and have over 30,000 miles on our trailer. We have driven some rough roads also, some so rough that we broke the glass door on our shower.

The china is pure white. The dishes wash well, I think they are easier to wash than plastic. The plastic plates seem to get grooved by sharp knives, but the china is so hard they never scratch. They are lighter in weight than traditional stone wear and they stack well enough in the cabinets that we are able to carry service for 8.

The next time you're at a factory store, give them a look see. You'll see what I mean.

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Blue Enamel

When we moved everyhing from camp boxes to Airstream we kept the blue enamel ware. We have had the stuff forever and it just doesn't seem like camping without it. Of course we no longer worry about wet sleeping bags, rocks under the tent or is the cooler locked up away from the bears!
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When I first bought my AS I told a friend that I was going to have to upgrade my camp dishes to something classier to go along with my classier camper.
She does a lot of garage saleing and found me a New in the box set of Corelle dishes.
They're the Tribal Spirit pattern.
I do think that if I were going to do a lot of traveling with my AS I would have to do an overhaul on all my cooking/kitchen ware.
I would look to keeping my rig as light weight as possible - even down to saving an ounce here and a pound there.
That would mean tossing the Corelle and cast iron and going to Melamine and cast aluminum.
You'd be surprised at how much cooking/dinnerware weighs.
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Old 12-31-2006, 07:45 AM   #20
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When we got our A/S, it had a set of glass dishes in the cabinet. All the cups are glass also. I took them all out and washed them. We are still new in the A/S world and havent even been camping yet. Thanks for starting this thread because I would have never even thought about them anymore until I arrived somewhere with a bunch of broken dishes!
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