Alternatives to stainless steel sink?

[moomiemoo]

In our last two houses we have inherited horribly scratched stainless steel sinks. We now need to fit a new sink and I've been put off stainless steel ones.

We don't want to spend too much but wondered whether it might be worth splashing out on a ceramic one?

Or maybe a granite effect one? Or is that naff?

Or maybe just stainless steel afterall?

Stainless steel doesn't have to become scratched, it depends how you clean it. I prefer stainless steel - I think ceramic would only work with quite a traditional kitchen so it depends what sort of units you have. If you are minted, then Corian worktops with seamless sinks integrated into them look fab.

Run a mile from granite/fragranite/asterite. They are a pig to keep clean and eventually get limescale and coffee stains permanently embedded. Unless you wash dry and polish the sink after every use as manufacturers recommend . They are not even very cheap. Can you tell I love mine?

Thanks!

We're not minted so stainless steel it is - I like the shiny, light-reflecting qualities of it anyway.

Also figure since they're so cheap that even if I do manage to ruin it it will be cheap and easy to replace.

Avoid Ceramic- mine cracked after 18 months. 25 years with stainless steel- I'd go back anyday. Grime & Lime does the trick!

We had a ceramic sink put into our new kitchen in our old house - never again! It stained really badly (even though it was black), was impossible to clean, got scratched, and then went grey when I bleached it.

When we had a new kitchen in the current house I went straight back to stainless steel. You can scrub it clean and it is bombproof. Get a good quality one and you'll be sorted.