Dishes v. Disposables on your Yomtov Table

chocolate moose ↓

Sat, Sep 29 2007, 6:04 pm

After 6 meals with soup and dessert, and haivng run two full dishwasher loads after yomtov, I am wondering what I can cut back on.....

It's so nice to serve full meals on china & crystal, including tea and dessert, but after the dishwasher is full and there's nowhere to put the glasses and dishes anymore, it ceases to be so nice...

So, what do you all suggest...what would you NOT mind eating/drinking from that's disposable?

bashinda

Sat, Sep 29 2007, 8:12 pm

if I'm a guest in somebody else's home I'm happy with whatever they do, be it all china or all disposable or anything in between.

For me, at least this year it's china on Yom Tov and Shabbos but everyone has their own thing. And we went over this before I'm still the dishwasher in my home but as you've posted before you don't go in for that sort of thing so do whatever suits you. Sometimes even have nice dishes for the serving dishes is enough and the rest is plastic.

BrachaVHatzlocha

Sat, Sep 29 2007, 8:14 pm

ha ha! I was going to start a thread on this.........I FEEL SO NORMAL!
Sometimes I feel guilty using plastic on Shabbos/Y"T...but erev Shabbos our schach blew 1/2 off and we ended up eating in our neighbor's sukka. actually, we started in one neighbor and switched to the other who had more room......and I noticed that BOTH were using regular, white plasticware. It made me feel much more normal (and I generally use gold plates, clear silverware)....PHEW! So I'm not the ONLY one.......by far!

miriamnechama

Sat, Sep 29 2007, 10:31 pm

truthfully, I only use disposables when I have a lot of guests or lots of kids. rh I did use disposables as my friend was there with her girls and it made things easier. this yom tov was different, we went to my sil up north so I didn't need. ( I can't understand how she gives real glass where to here 4year old abd 3 year old daughters) she told me theydon't believe in disposables and she's 6 weeks after birth!! well I bought her a storm that I had cooked up in my house so did her mil so it was a majour help for her. anyways we only left there at around midnight. they made a bbq also and her il's came. so we arrived home at 4am.

shabbos I was thinking I should have used disposables cus I got really sick with a virus and stomach bug, but I used regular. I onlyhad my bil.

shalash seudis I only use disposables and during the week or chol hamoed.

EsaEinai

Sat, Sep 29 2007, 11:14 pm

I used disposable all yontif... what a relief! they were pretty though. I had nice PRINTED plates and I used real chargers and napkin rings. and I used the silverware that looks like real silverware. classy, I know!

suomynona

Sat, Sep 29 2007, 11:44 pm

All disposable plates and cups and serving plates. But real cutlery.
I don't feel guilty at all.
I'm in my 9th month (but even if I wasn't...) and I have better ways to enjoy my yom tov than spend it in front of the sink.

drumjj

Sun, Sep 30 2007, 12:35 am

after having guests every day and night and a succa party for my community after shabbos it was definately paper ware all the way I bought some nicer stronger plates for yom tov and im quite happy to use it my husband hates paper ware for shabbos and yt but he understands in such situations im not washing dishes after yom tov all night long.

Raisin

Sun, Sep 30 2007, 12:52 am

I had no paperware (store failed to deliver any, except for some cups) so I had no choice but to use china each and every meal. I only had to wash up once though, one time my cleaning lady did it and the other times a guest did it.

I did cut down on the courses though - I did not serve fish except for shabbos.

BeershevaBubby

Sun, Sep 30 2007, 1:22 am

After doing as much cooking as I did, I don't have the energy to wsh dishes.

You can buy really nice disposable stuff, from cutlery and cups to plates and bowls.

Even serving plates and serviceware.

You can fold napkins in different ways or put doilies under the plates to dress the table up too.

su7kids

Sun, Sep 30 2007, 2:22 am

We used disposable for everything. All white.

I think one meal the kids set the real plates, and then after washing the dishes, the garbage disposal was full and it became a problem.

We had soup Friday night and I used real bowls for that, but othrewise all white and disposable.

Made Motzei Yom Tov sooooo much more pleasant.

baba

Sun, Sep 30 2007, 4:49 am

We're staying at family and they bought more expensive disposables that actually look nice. We're mainly using them only for the plates, but still it makes a difference. And if you want they can even go into the dishwasher. But most important, they are hard plastic, so they're more practicle than most dispoables.

shabbatiscoming

Sun, Sep 30 2007, 4:53 am

this sukot we used everything paper or plastic. we are moving the day after sukot so nothing is real, even the containers that I was cooking in were foil ones.

usually I cook in real dishes and I might buy fancy paper plates and would use real silverware.

Seraph

Sun, Sep 30 2007, 5:53 am

When I use disposable (rarely) its just plates and bowls... cant stand disposable silverware (they dont work!) or cups (too tiny and flimsy).

↑ chocolate moose ↓

Sun, Sep 30 2007, 5:56 am

I BH have a dishwasher and enough china, silverware, and glasses for a tremendous crowd. I just don't want to wash it on yomtov, being that the dishwasher does such a good job after yomtov, and I don't want a lot of dirty stuff around my kitchen, when the dishwasher is full.

I'm not really getting the answer I want here...for us, who eats on real dishes and such all week, I don't want to make yomtov "lower".....anyone else?

Ruby

Sun, Sep 30 2007, 5:57 am

I always use all paper and plastic on Sukkos. I try to buy nice things that are fancy and not flimsy. It all worth it when you don't have to shlep all the dishes back and forth.

dmum

Sun, Sep 30 2007, 2:56 pm

for the cost of disposables, you can actually get s/o to come and wash up after every meal for you... it only takes 1/2 hr, max 1 hr if you have loads of guests. ok, in israel it's not a good solution but for chul, it can even come out cheaper ($6-7 per meal?)

greenfire

Sun, Sep 30 2007, 3:10 pm

hey with the beautiful ones they have out there ... you can use disposeables and still be in fashion - quite yom tov dik .. they even have cutlery that looks like the real thing - almost a pity to throw out ...

↑ chocolate moose

Sun, Sep 30 2007, 3:22 pm

I'm still not getting the answer I want..I guess I'll just do everythign the same this yhomtov, dep. on the guest/eating out situation.

I'd still rather use vochdige glasses over plastic ones; I think glasses take up a lot of room in the dishwasher, but the table will look funny with all crystal and china and then plastic cups......

Marion

Sun, Sep 30 2007, 7:46 pm

I don't do disposable, except for the napkins. With the exception of having a very, very large crowd, which I don't do for meals either (at least for now). I have service for 12 (16 in silverware) for fleishigs and B"H a very large sink and 2 hands that work very well. I do have some kid-friendly Tupperware dishes, and in milchigs I have service for 12 just in Tupperware (and for 8 in real dishes), so I just don't use disposable. I DID cook in disposable for the first time for RH/Sukkot (did it all before RH and put in the freezer) just because it was being frozen and I don't have enough cookware/freezing containers to do it otherwise.