Chipped crockery - to throw to sometimes keep?

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My s’s new partner thinks a single chip on (non valuable) crockery means you need to bin it. I tend to tolerate the odd chip but starting to think…… maybe a chip means it’s all over.
AIBU To want to keep some?
Do you have a policy?

Yeah anything chipped or cracked in any way is binned immediately here. I'm not sure it's hygienic or safe once the glaze is broken as then the clay/china underneath is porous OP.

My policy is that I replace it, and put the chipped plate at the bottom of the stack. We do occasionally dip into the chipped reserves, so it’s sometimes handy to have a few extra plates above and beyond a standard set of plates. I’m planning on sending the chipped plates with my DC when they go to uni, where I won’t care if they get bashed around (besides—it was them who chipped the plates in the first place)!

Love the clarity - thank you.
teenagers emptying the dishwasher - carnage…

I keep the ones with little dings. They just move to the bottom of the pile.

Yep, bottom of the pile. Anything more serious broken and put at the bottom of plant pots when repotting!

Bin and replace, cracks or chips are unhygenic

NO, I don't keep chipped items for human food consumption due to the bacterial risks!

Saucers/plates I'll re-use under indoor houseplant pots
1 bowl is being used as a bird feeder
I've also seem some pretty cup/saucer bird feeders if you could be bothered glueing them together.

https://www.housedigest.com/1222433/chipped-dishes-are-not-worth-keeping-heres-why-they-need-to-go/

This!

I don’t keep chipped or cracked crockery. Not because I have concerns over cleanliness (I am grubby in many worse ways!), but because I hate cracked/chipped crockery!

Ditto glasses and mugs. Chipped or cracked = in the bin.

Kept for bottom of garden pots. Shared with gardener friends.
I don't use chipped anything for food.

I chipped one of my favourite pasta bowls the other day - was loading the dishwasher and dropped my metal Kitchen Aid bowl on top of it 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
I’ve kept it to use as a run-off dish under a plant pot

Chipped cups go straight in the bin, chipped plates and bowls go to the bottom of the pile and never used by guests, just by me or DH.

Take up mosaicing

Crikey! I'm worried about hygiene now.

I have a couple of Emma Bridgewater painted dinner plates and they aren't chipped but they have developed a crackle on the glaze.

Will they poison people?

I use just until I have time to replace.

Yeah, still using all mine. Chipped for years, some of them. No bacterial outbreaks.

I have a very clumsy partner & have also amassed a huge collection of crockery over the years. I got a bit upset by lots of things I'd brought back from my travels being broken - so he read up on the Japanese technique of kintsugi (where the cracks are filled with gold lacquer) & started mending them for me! You can buy kits to do it - it's very satisfying when they look lovely once more, & much better than binning them!

I planned to Di some Kintsugi and bought a kit at least 4 years ago. I still haven’t got round to it

I keep and use chipped crockery - never occurred to me not to! So wasteful to throw it away. Cracked I chuck in case it suddenly splits in two and spills food everywhere! Crackled is absolutely fine.

I get the Japanese mending thing with high quality things but our crockery is not special.
it’s the kids who seem to be committed to chipping things. They’re so clumsy.
I do the same generally and use chipped things for plants.
But my sister’s partner was really horrified and bought her a whole new set of crockery. Nothing fancy but still, he couldn’t cope with them.

We use chipped China. I might not offer those to guests for aesthetic reasons only. Bacterial risk - just nonsense. Now the old rivets might not have been great for health, but I don't think that's what killed people.

The crackling or crazing occurs over time, mostly on pottery, but some porcelain, when the glaze and body react differently to heat/cold/knocks etc. It's absolutely fine to use ceramic with crazing. Some of my everyday Poole Pottery is nearly 40 years old.

Thank you @socialdilemmawhattodo