The Corelle thread got me thinking - what do you call pasta bowls and what do you use them for?

[disykat]

You know, the deep wide bowls? My son and his girlfriend call them Plowls to rhyme with bowls. I guess I call them pasta bowls, but DH still never understands what I mean. If I ask him to grab me a pasta bowl, he's more likely to grab a serving bowl. Maybe "dinner bowls" would work?

I mostly use them for salads, stir fry's, etc. Now I don't know how we lived so many years without them because we use them so often. My current favorite "bowls" are Vietnamese Bun salad and Mexican Street corn bowls w/salmon. I most often use them for my favorite breakfast of eggs with veggies and cottage cheese.

Inquiring minds want to know. Do you use dinner bowls and what do you put in them?

 

[NAB]

I don’t have dinner bowls , just use dinner plates for pasta. I do know what bowls your talking about though.

Chili or soup we use cereal bowls.

Only have serving bowls that are bigger or my French onion soup bowls that I barely use.

 

[fla4fun]

Pasta bowls are not deep, at least not where I live. We have these plain white Corelle ones, which are 8.5 inches wide and 1.5 inches deep.


We have matching serving bowls, which are 10.25 inches wide and 3 inches deep, and small bowls we use for side salads that are 5.5 inches wide and 1.25 inches deep.

We use the pasta bowls for pasta, like spaghetti, baked ziti, lasagne, etc. We also use them for meals that tend to be on the juicy side, like pot roast with potatoes, carrots, and onions cooked alongside.

 

[Disneylover99]

I call all my bowls, bowls. And I use them for just about everything. I’m more likely to eat from a bowl than a plate at home.

I might ask my family if they want their food in a small bowl or big bowl. Size matters.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

You know, the deep wide bowls? My son and his girlfriend call them Plowls to rhyme with bowls. I guess I call them pasta bowls, but DH still never understands what I mean. If I ask him to grab me a pasta bowl, he's more likely to grab a serving bowl. Maybe "dinner bowls" would work?

I mostly use them for salads, stir fry's, etc. Now I don't know how we lived so many years without them because we use them so often. My current favorite "bowls" are Vietnamese Bun salad and Mexican Street corn bowls w/salmon. I most often use them for my favorite breakfast of eggs with veggies and cottage cheese.

Inquiring minds want to know. Do you use dinner bowls and what do you put in them?

I call them bowls. My husband uses them for soup. I have Campbell's soup cups that I use for soup. We serve pasta on plates.

 

[CdnCarrie]

I don't think we have such a thing. I have cereal bowls that came with the Corelle and then large serving bowls.

 

[disykat]

Pasta bowls are not deep, at least not where I live. We have these plain white Corelli ones, which are 8.5 inches wide and 1.5 inches deep.
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We have matching serving bowls, which are 10.25 inches wide and 3 inches deep, and small bowls we use for side salads that are 5.5 inches wide and 1.25 inches deep.

We use the pasta bowls for pasta, like spaghetti, baked ziti, lasagne, etc. We also use them for meals that tend to be on the juicy side, like pot roast with potatoes, carrots, and onions cooked alongside.

Those are the ones I have too. I guess I mean deep as in deeper than a plate, LOL! Good idea to use them for roast meat with veggies with gravy/sauce. Anything where the sauce pools around the plate is so much easier to manage in the "plowls" in my opinion.

 

[disykat]

I don't think we have such a thing. I have cereal bowls that came with the Corelle and then large serving bowls.

We started with a random pottery "pasta bowl" we got at an "empty bowl" fundraiser event. We loved the size so much I had to buy a set to use for meals. We bought Corelle for price and so they could fit nicely in our cupboards.

 

[Imzadi]

Do you mean these?

I LOVE them. I call them pasta bowls. I eat a lot of pasta and/or "big salads" as Elaine called them on Seinfeld. These are wonderful as they are wide enough for a salad without all the greens falling over the sides. And they are deep enough for pasta that one can twirl before eating.

I told my sister about them and she is on the hunt for them now. (I got mine from Home Goods.) I noticed we all tend to sit at various times, and munch in front of the TV, holding up whatever bowl we are eating out of. Her husband was holding up a plate, which made the food precarious, as one accidental tip could spill the food off. And he had to awkwardly grip the plate by the rim. These bowls are a shallow enough substitute for plated foods, yet have enough of a rim to not spill out. Plus, if one gets pasta bowls with a narrower foot at the bottom, (like the ones pictured,) instead of ones with a wide flat bottom, one can comfortably cup the bottom of the bowl in one's palm.

 

[Genie+]

The nuts thing is my local Shoprite gets Dinnerware Sets in the fall and I’ve picked up quite a few of those 14pc sets for $15 each!

Those came with:
4 Dinner Plates
4 Cereal/Soup Bowls
4 Appetizer Plates
2 Serving Bowls (Bonus!)

Direct through Corelle they want $50 - without the bonus 2 Serving Bowls.



I’ve bought 4 of the sets from Shoprite, costing a total of $60 and have:

16 Dinner Plates
16 Cereal/Soup Bowls
16 Appetizer Plates
8 Serving Bowls (which we use as Pasta Bowls )

They are nice and thin to store in the cabinet and I can really load the dishwasher up with them. My family knows they should be using these as the paper plates are for ‘special occasions’

 

[NYCgrrl]

My dinner bowls are Quimper pottery and are used for stews, pasta, soups, pretty much anything that has liquid in it.

 

[barkley]

You know, the deep wide bowls? My son and his girlfriend call them Plowls to rhyme with bowls. I guess I call them pasta bowls, but DH still never understands what I mean. If I ask him to grab me a pasta bowl, he's more likely to grab a serving bowl. Maybe "dinner bowls" would work?

I mostly use them for salads, stir fry's, etc. Now I don't know how we lived so many years without them because we use them so often. My current favorite "bowls" are Vietnamese Bun salad and Mexican Street corn bowls w/salmon. I most often use them for my favorite breakfast of eggs with veggies and cottage cheese.

Inquiring minds want to know. Do you use dinner bowls and what do you put in them?

I had to think for a minute cuz over 30 years ago we received a very large rather shallow bowl as a wedding gift. research into it had us discover it was considered a pasta serving bowl. we have NEVER used it for pasta but it is perfect for apple crisp b/c it's oven safe and has such a nice large surface space for the topping

the bowls that came with our china pattern kind of fit the bill for pasta bowls-wider than normal and shallow. since I decided to use them as everyday they get used for pasta, chili and stuff like stew but if it's more liquid like soup or cereal with milk-we tend to default to the deeper bowls with handles.

 

[lovesmurfs]

We have Pfaltzgraff Rio, and we have two bowls. At home we call them just the big bowls (versus cereal bowls, soup mugs, small bowls, and rimmed salad bowls that we also have).

We use them for pasta, soup, salad, bread, vegetables, chip/dip, whatever. They're pretty useful! This is the pattern. They're about 10" in diameter and 3" high.

 

[tvguy]

A bowl is a bowl in our house. For cereal and salad mostly. Pasta goes on the dinner plate, next to the vegetable and garlic bread.

 

[disykat]

A bowl is a bowl in our house. For cereal and salad mostly. Pasta goes on the dinner plate, next to the vegetable and garlic bread.

I would call this kind of a "newer" thing, not something I'd ever considered a kitchen must until about 5 or 10 years ago. Now it's the most used dish in our house instead of a big plate or a cereal bowl. Tonight, we're having a thick soup/stew and will have it in those with a small plate off to the side to hold a piece of cornbread and some watermelon. If we weren't having cornbread, we might have put a scoop of rice on top or had some crackers because we're carb lovers.

 

[OrangeBirdGirl]

We have a dedicated pasta bowl. However we eat pasta on plates. The big pasta bowl is for mixing the gravy (sauce) and pasta and we serve out of our pasta bowl. Never been used for anything else.

 

[Meriweather]

No designated pasta bowls.....as others have said, pasta goes on a plate.
Bowls are for soup, salad and cereal

 

[Imzadi]

I would call this kind of a "newer" thing, not something I'd ever considered a kitchen must until about 5 or 10 years ago. Now it's the most used dish in our house instead of a big plate or a cereal bowl.

Yes, I don't think this shape and size was even around a few years ago. If it was, it was probably seen as more of an appetizer bowl or a specialty bowl to put items on the side to pass around the table, at a more fancier event. Like maybe several slices of garlic bread (or the garlic knots a PP posted,) would go in it, to be passed, instead of placing them in a casual bread basket.

Here is a side profile view of the differences of this new pasta bowl versus a traditional cereal/soup bowl. Think of the dinner plate underneath each one as both being the same size. So, we are not talking about a serving bowl size.

You can see how the pasta bowl takes up all the surface area over the dinner plate. It does have raised sides, so it's NOT a smaller plate.

Whereas, the cereal bowl takes up less surface area around and is taller. So, they both may hold the same amount of food, but the configurations are very different. And the usage would be different. The deeper bowl is for thin liquids like broth or milk that would slosh out of lower sided bowls when scooped up. Whereas, the pasta bowl is better for thicker liquids like a great chunky stew.



Again, I LOVE these. I don't know how we lived without them for so long. I like a lot of sauce on my pasta. No more chasing the pasta around on a plate with the sauce having fallen off and spread out on the plate.

 

[disykat]

I do remember the bigger pasta serving bowls coming into popularity long before the individual pasta bowls. Usually very pretty and Mediterranean style. Similar in the "low bowl" style, but very different in size.

 

[easyas123]

Bowls are bowls in our home. We eat pasta off of plates-