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AIBU to expect Emma Bridgewater mugs to last!

81 replies

2plus3 · 10/03/2015 16:17

Would it be responsible to expect them to last longer then 2 seconds before the handle falls off. I've had 4 of the useless things fall apart! All cracking at the top of the handle.

I only buy them because of a deluded belief that tea tastes nicer in them.

(Stomps off to buy a new cheap mug)

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IHaveBrilloHair · 10/03/2015 16:19

You need Le Creuset mugs, really sturdy.

LittleBairn · 10/03/2015 16:21

How strange my Emma Bridgewater mugs have always lasted really well, even the one I knocked out of a cupboard, clattered off the worktop and fell onto hard flooring only ended up with a minor chip.
I haven't bought any the last few years, has the manufacturing declined badly?

Dumpylump · 10/03/2015 16:26

I've got several Emma Bridgewater mugs, a couple of which were personalised orders, and they've all remained unscathed for around six years now - unless they've changed the way they're made, I think I'd be wondering if maybe something was happening to them in your possession - e.g. do you put them in the dishwasher the same way every time so maybe something is bashing them?
Don't know about tea, but coffee definitely tastes better in them!

fabuleux · 10/03/2015 16:35

Me and exH has matching Mr and Mrs ones given for our wedding, until the handle fell off his only a few months later (a bad omen? Grin)

My Mrs one is still going strong though and I was given a beautiful floral one for xmas, I carefully handwash these taking extra extra care so they last, I LOVE Emma B's stuff!!

Original poster
2plus3 · 10/03/2015 16:36

I thought it might be a dishwasher issue, but the very first mug I got is still going strong, where newer ones have broken!

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2plus3 · 10/03/2015 16:39

I'll have a look at Le creuset, my DH suggested I get myself a tin mug! Hmm

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Doingakatereddy · 10/03/2015 16:41

My Emma Bridgewater mug has lasted 12 years plus. Not like the shite shite shite Cath Kidson mugs

polyhymnia · 10/03/2015 16:43

Another vote for Le Creuset here.

Catanddogmake6 · 10/03/2015 16:49

I had one of the plastic Emma Bridgewater mugs for outdoors. I had only used it a couple of times when it split completely in half. It was as I was making tea and it was so fortunate my 18 month old had toddled away from my feet and I had turned away to get a spoon otherwise we both would have been scalded as the tea poured out.

AlpacaMyBag · 10/03/2015 16:51

There does seem to be a design flaw in the handle, they always seem to break in the same place.

Love them though.

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2plus3 · 10/03/2015 17:07

Not just me then Alpaca

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bilbodog · 10/03/2015 17:07

look at the mugs/cups Anthropologie do - they are beautiful. Have 7 of them now and still collecting. No problems with these after 2 years.

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2plus3 · 10/03/2015 17:08

Two votes for le creuset, does tea taste good in them?

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ScrambledSmegs · 10/03/2015 17:16

I've got some lovely mugs - le creuset, Keith Brymer Jones, hand painted Sara Taylor, even some Gordon Ramsey ones which look lovely and hold loads of tea.

The tea always tastes best in my non-branded fine bone china plain white mugs. Go figure.

ScrambledSmegs · 10/03/2015 17:16

I hate the way tea tastes in the le creuset mugs. They're fine for coffee but tea tastes wrong in them. Sorry!

WerewolfBarMitzvah · 10/03/2015 17:19

Another vote for anthro.
Love our initial mugs - nice big base for sitting on arm of couch and tea tastes lovely

Leeds2 · 10/03/2015 18:03

My Cath Kidston mugs have lasted for years. Put in dishwasher too.

IloveJudgeJudy · 10/03/2015 18:34

My mug for tea is a Dunoon bone china mug bought for me by DS1. I broke the one that DH had bought me previously by taking it out of the dishwasher while it was still warm and then chipping it Sad. My tea drinking vessel does have to be bone china, but for coffee pottery is fine.

You can also buy bone china mugs for £2.50 Shock at Morrisons. Tea tastes fine from them, too, but they're not handmade like the Dunoon ones.

NeverHadHaveHas · 10/03/2015 18:40

We have loads of them as we love ten mins from the factory and paint our own quite a lot for Father's Day, birthdays and stuff. Never had one break or chip. Have also given loads of them for pressies and never heard of any of those breaking either.

Charlotte3333 · 10/03/2015 18:56

We have Cath Kidston ones for guests and Bridgewater ones for me, I don't drink tea from the CK ones, it tastes different. DH insists I'm mad for thinking that. I think I'm simply more delicate.

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2plus3 · 10/03/2015 19:00

A good mug/cup makes all the difference to how the tea tastes!

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londonrach · 10/03/2015 19:00

How old are they as i think the older ones are better than the new ones!

Damnautocorrect · 10/03/2015 19:10

I've had three or four where the handles have fallen off. I've given up with them now and buy nice supermarket ones instead. They were a mixture of ages from 7 years old.

claraagain · 10/03/2015 19:26

I have about 200. I have a graveyard in the garden with about 20 in- all broken. I would say the older ones craze more but the newer ones break more often.

BathTangle · 10/03/2015 19:33

If you like Emma Bridgewater you might like Aston Pottery: I have loads of them! All handmade in their workshop in Oxfordshire (you can pop in and see them being made if you visit the shop). Quality is excellent, they are doing a limited edition for Liberty at the moment.

www.astonpottery.co.uk/