If you own an RV, or have at least spent time in one, you know that kitchen storage is limited (very limited). Some newbie RVers will try and cram all their kitchen appliances and gadgets from their sticks and bricks home in their RVs, and will quickly learn that isn’t possible.
How many dinner plates do you keep in your RV? Enough for guests? Or just enough for you or you and your partner? Perhaps you only use paper or disposable plates, in which case, those don’t count.
Please tell us in the poll below. Thanks for voting!
We like to use our melamine plates. We have a set of 10, handy to use and easy to clean, as well as serving off of them as a platter. We only use paper for no-cook meals, like sandwiches & chips. We try very hard to ( LEAVE NO TRACE ) and will not even burn paper plates. 😉
We looked at the melamine, but decided against them since they can’t go in the microwave. womp womp. 🙁 We got some clearance Corelle.
We also got 8″ plates instead of proper dinner plates. They are easier to clean and store….and who needs 10″ worth of food anyway?
I agree with you on 8″ plates for meals. Simple way to cut back on too large serving. Besides, you can always have seconds.
Paper with frizzbes for support in our coach.
When first bought rv, got set of dishes for 8. Too many and too heavy! Replaced with plastic set for 4. Much better. And daughter got the first set.
You’ll find a set of 6 Corella (dinner, sandwich & bowls) in our RV. They’re lightweight and durable and have been through three RVs with us. Paper plates are used on occasion, but the Corella are easy to wash and store.
We are big-time foodies. 8 place settings of Corelle. Plus assorted bowls, small & large (for pasta).
We have 6, all plastic micro-safe – 2 slightly smaller, 4 larger, all somewhat deep. Either size can go upside-down on top of the other as spatter-guard in micro, and can stack two meals at a time as well. Substitute bowls for tall meals.
Four plastic plates, four plastic bowls…only because sometimes the two grandkids come along.
Ceramic complete set of 8. Never had a issue.
We keep a mixture of paper goods and regular plates, cups and bowls, when traveling straight through paper is easier but once settled for a while we use regular plates.
We carry 4 settings of Correlle. these are used mainly for dinners. We also have a stack of quality paper plates and bowls for everything else that doesn’t require using a sharp knife, sandwiches, etc.
I would love to carry only melamine, but they cannot be used in a microwave.
but lately we’ve been using Chinette “paper” plates.
8 settings of Corelle. We rarely serve 8 but do use some of the extra plates and bowls for serving platters. We also have a nesting set of bowls that can be used for serving or storage and two large serving bowls for salads/pasta/mashed potato type of serving.
Four Correll and a stack of paper plates.
What I keep is 2 sets of 4 each. We have a fifth
There are only two of us but we have dishes and silver for three (I have no idea why we do it that way). Of course, we have four highball glasses for sociability.
We started out with some lovely Corelle, but, after dropping a bowl in the stairwell and having it explode into many sharp shards, we switched to melamine, plus some similar Nordic ware plates that are microwaveable.
We have a Corelle dinnerware service for 8 in our RV that we’ve had for over30 years. We got it when we had our bunkhouse travel trailer and had a minimum of 3 kids with us. It’s just the 2 of us now so we should take some out, but we can go longer without running the dishwasher. Ya, we got one of those.
We have a 4 place setting of Corelle, if we have more than 2 guests, we go to paper plates, saves water and clean up.
We have four plastic plates, several paper plates and bowls, and metal eating utensils. Nothing that can shatter if dropped.
Have 6 plates, 4 bowls, 4 cups. If we have more we use paper
We keep place settings for 4