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>Consider porcelain, lasts forever, This isn't true. Porcelain is brittle and delicate, and usually shatters when dropped. It's easily broken through normal
by shiroiuma 3y ago
>Consider porcelain, lasts forever,
This isn't true. Porcelain is brittle and delicate, and usually shatters when dropped. It's easily broken through normal handling. Just guessing, I imagine most new inexpensive porcelain dishware is purchased to replace broken stuff.
Sure, if you put it in a cabinet and never use it except for once-a-year special occasions, it might last a lifetime, but the stuff you use every day won't.
- kalleboo 3y agoWhen my parents moved abroad, I inherited the bone porcelain set they got as a wedding gift (a Swedish Rörstrand set). It was used every day when I was a kid and it's used everyday now 40 years later by my kids. It's been dropped hundreds of times and there are maybe only one or two chips among all the plates and bowls. Meanwhile all the cheap IKEA dishes I bought as a student always broke within a year of purchase.