Mug or cup & saucer?

15 years ago

I have a ton of my Grammas and Moms old tea cups and saucers. I love to get them out once in awhile and put some on display and to actually use them sometimes. I really think tea tastes better out of a china cup and saucer. Maybe it's just the memories they bring up but either way it's a good feeling!

I was just on Etsy. Pages and pages of them and some are really valuable.

Normally I use a mug for tea but I'm thinking I may start to use some of these.

What do you drink your tea from?

Tea cup?

or Mug?

Sort by:Oldest

Comments (17)

linda_in_iowa
15 years ago
I am a coffee drinker. From a mug because it seems to stay hot longer.
LuAnn_in_PA
15 years ago
mug... but not a generic one like that.... LOL!
Related Discussions
Cup and Saucer - can't find seeds!
Q
Comments (6)
Hi, I am having the same trouble. The plant has been finished flowering for a long time, and the dead petals have long since turned brown, but the bulges under the dead petals stayed green and of course when I tried to open one, there was nothing inside. I also got some very fine filaments stuck in my fingers for my trouble...almost like a splinter and had to remove them with tweezers. The plants were gorgeous this year and would love to save seed. HOPE I can find them. I will go look again, but with gloves this time. Adam
...See More
Any Fiestaware collectors who want to trade?
Q
Comments (12)
Hi, I have 4 4-piece place settings: cinnibar, cobalt, sunflower, and scarlet, that I would like to trade for other colors. I also have 3 plum bowls (the size that comes in the 4-piece place settings). Let me know if anyone is interested. I am in Napa, CA but am willing to send them wherever. Thanks!
...See More
Question for those who store dishes in drawers...
Q
Comments (6)
I suggest you make a box (or boxes) of these dimensions and see how your dishes could be arranged in them. That's what's key. Also remember you do not have to store all your dishes together (or all of one type of item, i.e., more than you'd use in an everyday situation). You might find that you can accomodate the most-commonly used ones, but need to locate the others in a less convenient place eleswhere in the kitchen. (Example: say you have bread and butter plates or deep soup bowls, but only use them occasionally - these can obviously be stored someplace else, leaving room for your everyday soup bowls, lunch and dinner plates, etc. You can store your mugs and cups and saucers near the coffee maker, as well.) While you're at it, weigh the dishes you expect to store in the drawer and make sure they - including the weight of the drawer box itself - are correctly matched to the weight limits of the sliders. Another factor in locating dishes is where they are washed. Sometimes convenience to the storage place trumps convenience to the plating-up point. It depends on your kitchen and family styles. For instance if table-setting is a children's chore in your family, then storing those dishes in a place where the kids can retrieve them without getting in the middle of your most-active cooking zone might be better. And in this case maybe your want to have your serving platters close to where they'd be plated, but the individual dishware stashed where the kids can get at it. Or if you have trouble getting the dishes out of the dishwasher or dishdrainer and stowing them, (and doing that is important to you) then having the storage place ultra-convenient to where the dishes are washed may be the most important factor if it makes it easier for you. (Personally I want clean dishes to voluntarily spring from their racks straight into the drawers, but I haven't been able to buy such a set yet.) Some people have two dishwashers so that they rarely have to put anything away, it seems, they just take the clean stuff directly out of the one DW and load into the other one. I'm shouldn't be mocking that. I have a DW but never use it, instead it's the home of all the stuff that doesn't seem to have a home in my other cupboards - that is the overflow from my second oven! HTH L.
...See More
Who is the manufacturer of your white dinnerware?
Q
Comments (23)
Bone china is the strongest and lightest. It is considered a type of porcelain, which is next down. Ceramic and stoneware are the least sturdy, but that depends on the particular manufacturer, as they vary a great deal. I think the main negative is that they tend to be heavy, plus they chip, especially when you grab a handfull of dishes at a time from the dishwasher. I have used Villeroy and Boch bone china for 20+ years and it is truly very strong. I had a number of pieces fall on my tile floor of my old home and just bounce! I looked for over a year before I found this pattern discontinued at a V&B outlet store where I was able to get it for about $22 a place setting. Are there any V&B, Mikasa or other outlet stores nearby? Haunt their clearance areas regularly and get on their mailing list (which usually includes a % off coupon) for sale dates. That said since you don't want to spend much right now, you should keep a keen eye on ads near your home. Within the last two weeks, I saw china sets of 8 at Macy's and Penney's. They both originally listed for about $100, but after the sale and assorted coupons were applied, they came down to about $40. (I was actually looking to get a set for my son who just recently moved into a new apt) Other than the serving pieces that come with your set, do not bother with trying to match everything. I got everything available in my bone china set, and I rarely use it together anymore. With the whole table set exactly the same, it actually can look quite boring. White china looks gorgeous with serving pieces in accent colors or designs. You can get many of these at great prices in department store clearance rooms, Home Goods, or TJ Maxx.
...See More
cynic
15 years ago
As "their Hyacinth" would say... Beaker!

Still remember my dad and others who'd "saucer & blow" with the stovetop percolated coffee.
mary_c_gw
15 years ago
I only drink coffee, but I really dislike drinking from those heavy ceramic mugs. They're too thick. I don't care that it may stay hotter longer - I just don't pour a huge cup.

But I never use a teacup and saucer either. Too fussy.

I have china mugs. They are thin, like a china teacup. They hold a full cup of coffee, and are much more pleasant to drink from than a ceramic mug.
sleeperblues
15 years ago
insulated mug
FlamingO in AR
15 years ago
Mug. I can't be bothered with 2 pieces when one will do.

Mush, I've seen some lovely pincushions made with delicate cups and saucers. And bird feeders, too, if you could stand to "trash" them like that.
glenda_al
15 years ago
Mugs, but when I married, I had 3 sets of dinnerware.

Each were 12 place settings, as my MIL insisted I have.

All had cups and saucers.

I sold my Lenox to best friend, sold my everyday locally, still have my royal doulton china. that I rarely use, with cups and saucers.

Guess my son will have to decide what to do with it when I am no longer here :o)
lydia1959
15 years ago
I have a pretty large collection of vintage teacups, but wouldn't use any of them for coffee... unless maybe I had a girl's tea party or something similar.

I use a large mug for my coffee.
pekemom
15 years ago
I have a couple of pretty cups and saucers in my china
cabinet and some everyday cups and saucers in my cupboard
but I usually use coffee mugs for coffee, tea and hot
chocolate.
mamatoad
15 years ago
I like mugs for my coffee but use bone china tea cups for my hot tea. Somehow, it just tastes better when I drink it from a delicate china cup. I collected tea pots and cups and saucers for long time and still have way too many! I used some to make bird feeders, candleholders and pincushions. There's one in my bathroom now with potpourri in it. My advice would be to take them out and enjoy them!
jel48
15 years ago
I collect both antique/vintage cups an saucers AND mugs. The cups an saucers are on display and I drink from the mugs. I got into collecting cups and saucers over 30 years ago, when I went to an extension club meeting at a friend's home. She served coffee from a collection of beautiful cups an saucers that she had inherited from her grandmother. I fell in love with them and the romance continues today :-)
Marilyn Sue
15 years ago
I do have some sets of china cups and saucers that I don't use. Mostly I use a mug and do have two china cups I use from time to time, no saucers. I do think hot tea tastes better from a china cup.

Sue
dotmom
15 years ago
I'm another coffee drinker, but if I'm ill, I crave tea. That might be because my Mom always gave me tea and toast when I was sick, as a child. I drink both from a mug, but it has to be glass or ceramic, no plastic or....shudder, Styrofoam. when I was a young married wife we had a neighbor who was from England. She would invite me over for tea, and it was so delightful because she always made a production of the preparations, such as, hot the pot, right temperature of the water and measuring out the loose tea. Then of course there was the tea cozy, sort of a quilt for the teapot to keep it hot. She served small sandwiches or tiny sweets, and of course the tea was served in a beautiful cup and saucer. What a sweet memory that is.
susanjf_gw
15 years ago
mug, for sure and sometimes this huge supersized plastic cup...that's for the nights it's really cold or i'm drinking mint tea since i can't use tums...(it works pretty well for me)

i have/had the pretty cups, but we took them down to sis' lake house, for dgd's tea party, and left them, sigh...one of these years i hope to get back dow and pick them up...know my neice still has them...
schoolhouse_gw
15 years ago
Cups and saucers for me - for both tea and coffee. The coffee cup/saucer is a heavier weight only because I use it so often that there is always the inevitable accident. Usually it's the saucer that gets broken, but since I choose a favorite cup I match it with a saucer from some other coffee cup. Then the cup eventually gets replaced by my next favorite. Currenty, it's a cup and saucer by Lenox called "Butterfly Meadow". The neighbors gave it to me last winter as a gift for checking in on their cats while they were on vacation.
wine50
15 years ago
My husband and I both enjoy our coffee/tea in a nice thin tea cup and saucer. I don't think I even own any mugs.
marry
15 years ago
I like both coffee and tea, but I like to use hand crafted ceramic or pottery mugs. The two that I am using right now are very large and each holds about 2 cups worth of what ever I'm drinking. They are by LaWall and I got them at the Amish Acres Arts and Crafts Festival last year. They just have such a good feel to them when you pick them up.
I do like pretty tea cups too! Have a pretty cup and saucer sitting on my dresser. I put little bits and pieces in the cup. I am always looking at Goodwill for cups and saucers....I make those little teacup bird feeders too.
In fact I have about a dozen of them ready to go!

Mug or cup & saucer?

Comments (17)

linda_in_iowa

LuAnn_in_PA

Related Discussions

cynic

mary_c_gw

sleeperblues

FlamingO in AR

glenda_al

lydia1959

pekemom

mamatoad

jel48

Marilyn Sue

dotmom

susanjf_gw

schoolhouse_gw

wine50

marry

COMPANY

BUSINESS SERVICES

GET HELP

CONNECT WITH US