Can't decide on sink for new kitchen- please help

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Just about to order our new kitchen in the next couple of days and I can't decide what to do about the sink.

After looking at so many photos of perfect kitchens I had decided on an 1.5 bowl undermount composite sink set into a quartz worktop, but am worried that I am going for style over substance when I think about the reality of how it will be used.

I have a DH and 2 teen DSs who will be washing football boots, golf balls and various other sporting bits and pieces in the sink - we don't have a utility room. Kitchen at the moment is ancient and so I haven't been worried in the past!

I am worried about the quartz round an inset sink possibly chipping, particularly when washing pots and pans (or golf balls!) and wonder if you have this set up whether you can advise on how hard wearing it is?

I want a smart new kitchen but also something that can withstand family life. I can't decide whether a 1.5 bowl or one big sink would be better, and also whether composite or stainless steel would be best.

Do you have a sink and worktop that you would recommend for looking good but also being hard wearing and standing the test of time?

Yes I chose a big sink in this kitchen and it was brilliant. Didn't miss having the 0.5 and as @thelegohooverer said, we have a bowl we put in it if we need to segregate things

We are v cack handed here @sallyanne33 so stuck with stainless steel as we also had a ceramic sink on holiday and smashed loads of things!

My rubber washing up bowl (from Normann Copenhagen, don't flame me for the price they last forever) mitigates the smashed glass problem with a ceramic sink. I much prefer the look of them to stainless steel, and ceramic doesn't clash with the brass tap either.

Thanks for tips
I did try barkeepers friend
But oven mate is a great shout

I had a sink firmed from the same material as the worktop (it wasn’t silestone but similar). One big square- I don’t know what people use those half sinks for! It took years of rugby boot washing. Never chipped or anything. 8 years on looks almost good as new.

I agree , a big sink is really useful. Put function first.

Stainless steel 1.5 here. Especially if you don't want to be super careful every time you lob a glass in it

Dunno dimensions

www.diy-kitchens.com/sinks-and-taps/sinks/inset/geo-1.5-1000-bbr-1.5-bowl-inset-sink/wp2087306/

We had the blanco silgranit sublime 500-u in our old house which was great. We have the 800 wide version in this kitchen with a split which is wonderful but if you don’t have the space for that I would just go for the large bowl version.