Dinnerware?

[java]

Our everyday dishes have seen better days. It is a 23 year old Mikasa set. I have supplemented with some fiesta ware. Which frankly hasn't held up well. Shows knife marks.

So what affordable dinnerware do you have?

 

[luvmy3]

I had used Pfaltzgraff for years but they are just so darn heavy that I switched to Corelle. I got my sets (4 place settings) on black friday last year for $19 a piece. I love them.

My Dad still has the Corelle dishes that I grew up using. They last forever!

 

[GMU MOM]

I love Corelle too. They are so light weight.

 

[kathie859]

Our everyday dishes have seen better days. It is a 23 year old Mikasa set. I have supplemented with some fiesta ware. Which frankly hasn't held up well. Shows knife marks.

So what affordable dinnerware do you have?

I agree with luvmy3---invest in plain, white corelle. It's microwave safe and by using different colors of serving dishes, glassware, etc. can be changed up in look. I enjoy setting a pretty everyday table and my plain corelle has lasted over 35 years! I will mention that I have tile floors in the kitchen and corelle will break on it--heck, plasticware will break on that darn hard floor

 

[Gigi22]

I too have Corelle, a set received as a wedding gift, 29 years ago. None of the pieces have broken, the decoration is starting to wear out.

 

[Southernmiss]

Corelle here too. Had one set when we married 23 years ago. Bought 2 more sets on clearance at Wal-Mart 2 years ago. Lasts and looks nice.

Use fiestaware for 'special'every day dinners and my china for Christmas and thanksgiving.

 

[luvmy3]

OP, if you do want to check out Corelle, this website has alot of patterns and serving pieces. They run good sales too!

http://www.shopworldkitchen.com/

 

[java]

Is Corelle plastic? And is there difference in quality? I know I have seen it at walmart. Is it all the same? Thanks for the advice guys!

 

[wendow]

We also use Corelle and love it!! I used to have some ceramic, decorative plates that didn't do well in the dishwasher, were heavy and took up a ton of space in my cabinets. Corelle hold up great (unless dropped on tile), are lightweight and stack oh, so nicely! Corelle is made of glass. My sets are from Walmart but it can be purchased many places and I think it's all the same stuff.

 

[LJSquishy]

As far as I know all dishes will eventually show gray utensil marks.

We've had Pottery Barn dishes for about 8 years (about 6 years of heavy daily use) and they just started getting gray lines about a year ago. We only use solid white dinnerware.

I looked into Corelle but to me they "look" cheap and not like high quality dishes. I do know they are durable, though...just thin and cheap looking. I'm not sure if they get gray marks after a few years but they probably do just like everything else.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I grew up with Corelleware in the 70's and I still use it today. My mother still uses her original set - I think it's called Cornflower (gold).

DH and I are on our third set. My parents gave us a set with the same pattern as theirs when we got our first apt. Then we felt like a change and bought a second set in the 90's. It, too, held up well. Then a few years ago when we remodeled our kitchen I got a new set, it's black and white and I love it. It still looks as good as the day I bought it.

For "better ware" (for lack of a better word) we had Pfalzgraff which was a wedding gift, but I never liked it. After the remodel I changed my whole method of storing and serving, so I got all Crate and Barrel plain white dinnerware and I love it. I usually do buffet style so stacks of white plates work out really well.

 

[runsandjumps]

I have Corelle too. I use it mainly because I have kids but don't want to eat off plastic. They are shatter resistant but not shatter proof. And let me tell you first hand about the pain of a million tiny shards when they do break. Oy!

However I like that they are Inexpensive and microwaveable. Mikasa and fiestaware are nice it just depends how much you want to
Invest.

Ana

 

[tinkerone]

i to am a Corelle user. i have had mine for 38 years, have only lost one piece to breakage (pp, your right, it does shatter big time).
the only downside to it is that i'm kind of tired of the pattern but i just can't get myself to purchase new dinner ware when what i have is perfectly good and looks like the day i bought it.
yes, i am cheap.

 

[mrsclark]

Corelle is made out of a triple layer of glass (although in the sets being sold today, the mugs are made of porcelain rather than Vitrelle which is the patented name of the triple layer glass that Corelle made of).

We have used our current set for almost seven without one piece being broken or chipped! I visited a Corelle/Pyrex store (they are owned by the same company) in Branson, MO and was able to get some additional serving pieces that match our set!

The other thing I love about Corelle is it is made in the USA! Especially important when you will be eating off of it everyday and using it in the microwave. The only other dinnerware that I know of that is made in the USA is all Lenox bone china and Fiesta.

 

[wendow]

I love that it is USA made also! We haven't had any breakage either despite having 4 kids who load/unload the dishwasher.

It was mentioned about all dishes getting marks from utensils. Ours has none. Looks as good as new. I've eaten off Corelle that was 25 years old and it also looked new.

 

[DisneyForLife]

Just want to agree with almost all the other posts..........Love Corelle

 

[mrsklamc]

For your existing Fiesta:

How do I clean marks off my Fiesta® Dinnerware?
Metal markings can be removed by a wide variety of products on the market today including Zud, Bar Keepers Friend, and Porcelain cleaners. The product recommended to us by several customers and one we find works best is Wrights Copper Cleaner which can be found at most grocery stores.

 

[elgerber]

Just want to agree with almost all the other posts..........Love Corelle

And I agree with DisneyForLife

 

[scrapquitler]

Our everyday dishes have seen better days. It is a 23 year old Mikasa set. I have supplemented with some fiesta ware. Which frankly hasn't held up well. Shows knife marks.

So what affordable dinnerware do you have?

We have been married for 23 years, and when we got married, we got a ton of Pfaltzgraff (Trousseau, we got something like 18 place settings) and we used it daily until about 2 years ago when I just got so tired of it that I couldn't stand it anymore. Yes, we had a bunch of broken pieces that I tossed over the years, but we've still got at least 8 pieces of everything plus some more. I finally hauled that stuff up to our weekend cabin and we still use it there.

At home for the last couple of years we have been using Corelle. It's so much lighter than the Pfaltzgraff stuff and so far we haven't had any broken pieces (but I do know that it will break because I watched one of our residents at work throw a plate and it defnitely broke in about 7 million pieces). I bought my Corelle at Walmart. I think a box set of 4 setting was less than $30.

 

[scrapquitler]

Our everyday dishes have seen better days. It is a 23 year old Mikasa set. I have supplemented with some fiesta ware. Which frankly hasn't held up well. Shows knife marks.

So what affordable dinnerware do you have?

We have been married for 23 years, and when we got married, we got a ton of Pfaltzgraff (Trousseau, we got something like 18 place settings) and we used it daily until about 2 years ago when I just got so tired of it that I couldn't stand it anymore. Yes, we had a bunch of broken pieces that I tossed over the years, but we've still got at least 8 pieces of everything plus some more. I finally hauled that stuff up to our weekend cabin and we still use it there.

At home for the last couple of years we have been using Corelle. It's so much lighter than the Pfaltzgraff stuff and so far we haven't had any broken pieces (but I do know that it will break because I watched one of our residents at work throw a plate and it defnitely broke in about 7 million pieces). I bought my Corelle at Walmart. I think a box set of 4 setting was less than $30.