# What is the equivalent of "thread count" for crockery

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 17, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-equivalent-of-thread-count-for-crockery/918326 "2020-08-17T15:39:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-equivalent-of-thread-count-for-crockery/918326/21 "2020-08-22T02:06:41Z")

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> [@SmartAleq](#):
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> must have gotten the bad batch made when everyone was hung over then!

Sounds like it. We all think Corning owes you a full set of new IKEA dshes. You tell them we said so. 🍽🥣

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**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-equivalent-of-thread-count-for-crockery/918326/22 "2020-08-22T20:10:08Z")

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Well, that’s fifty bucks for a set of twelve places, might break the bank! 😉

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-equivalent-of-thread-count-for-crockery/918326/23 "2020-08-23T08:25:15Z")

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> [@griffin1977](#):
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> We recently brought a set of plates, bowls, and cups that looked like a solid set crockery (not expensive but not dirt cheap either). It turns out they are super crappy and light weight, they now have more chips in a couple of weeks than our previous crockery had in many years of use (most of the pieces now have a chip somewhere).

I know exactly what you’re describing - I bought a set like that once because I fell in love with the design on it, but the ceramic was almost like cinder toffee or meringue in it’s lightweight, porous and fragile nature. I swear I could have taken a bite out of one of the plates and retained most of my teeth.

My best advice is: buy secondhand. My current tableware I picked up in charity shops - it sometimes take a bit of hunting around to get a full set, but it’s like furniture - it’s not that they used to build everything to last in the past, it’s that everything not built that way is already broken. Anything old-ish, and unbroken probably isn’t going to break now.

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**Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-equivalent-of-thread-count-for-crockery/918326/24 "2020-08-23T12:26:34Z")

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> [@SmartAleq](#):
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> I eat a LOT of Asian food and everyone knows it’s SO much easier to eat rice and noodle dishes out of a big bowl with chopsticks.

I do the same. I use 7 and 8 inch ramen and udon bowls for nearly everything, not just stir fries and noodle dishes. Today I had a lamb koftas. Cous cous and baked spiced veges in the bottom of the bowl, koftas on top with a pile of hummus and another of minted yogurt. Even baked dinners are better out of a bowl.

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**Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-equivalent-of-thread-count-for-crockery/918326/25 "2020-08-23T19:29:07Z")

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Plates are mostly only good if you have a big slab o’meat that needs cutting up, otherwise bowls are where it’s at!

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