Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Furnishing your common house kitchen - dishes, utensils

[Craig Ragland (craigragland]

Songaia also uses lots of Corelle - we have for 5 meals/week for a
great many years. Various folks buy them when found at garage sales,
thrift shops, etc. to help keep up our supplies. They are so cheap
this way that few ask for reimbursement, more just "show up."

Be forewarned, an "exciting" thing about Corelle is that, while hard
to break while young, older ones sometimes explode into a bazillion
glass chards when dropped. They don't seem to chip, they are either
whole or in MANY pieces.

So far, I don't think anybody at Songaia has been hurt - and there's
never been a request to change. We are, however, very careful about
cleaning the floors in a fairly wide area after a drop.

Because of this hazard, we encourage the youngest of our kids to use
plastic plates/bowls, rather than the Corelle. This has been pretty
easy, since they are more colorful - and fun.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Lynn Nadeau <welcome [at] olympus.net> wrote:
>
> As I mentioned in another post, we assiduously collected second-hand
> Corelle plates and bowls for years, to the point where we have dishes
> for about 40 out on the cart, and another big stack for back up if we
> have some sort of event that uses many many dishes. They are the very
> best - light, stacking, dry fast, almost unbreakable. Their serving
> bowls are also good.
>
> Lynn Nadeau
> at RoseWind Cohousing