A bowl's shape can help retain heat in water-based soups or cool cream-based soups.
Soup bowls are made from a variety of materials such as porcelain, stoneware, plastic, lacquer, and glass. Contemporary styles can depart from the round, open-face classic style to include other geometric shapes such as squares, rectangles and curved-bean styles. Bowls for the western market often include Asian influences and vice-versa. Oven-proof bowls perform double duty for cooking and serving.
Classic Style
The classic wide-rimmed bowl can hold up to 16 ounces or 22 ounces to the brim. These shallow bowls team well with thick, cream-based soups that should cool within a few minutes. This broad dish can also serve salads and pasta.
Two-Handled Bowls
Lugged soup bowls feature two small handles for serving hot soups, desserts and side orders. A cream soup bowl features two handles, a wide mouth and shallow cup. Coupled with a saucer, this style allows a used spoon to rest.
Soup Mug
An oven-safe ceramic soup mug can withstand baking and broiling for preparing piping hot dishes such as French onion soup. These mugs often include a lid and handle for easy transport between oven and table.
Cassole
The cassole is an earthenware bowl produced near Castelnaudary in south France. These brick-colored bowls feature a glazed interior and rim. The dish cassoulet, a stew of meat cooked with white beans, developed from this bowl.
Asian Soup Bowls
Noodle bowls can be a larger diameter and hold a larger volume of food often served as a meal in itself. Smaller soup bowls such as used for Japanese miso soup do not need a soup spoon. The diner takes the bowl in two hands and raises the bowl to his mouth to sip the soup. These lacquer or lacquer-like bowls sometimes include lids.
Plastic
Some lines of plastic food storage containers include bowls with coordinating lids for air-tight fresh storage. Advantages can include portability, ease of use in the microwave oven or cleaning in the dishwasher. A set can include a range of sizes that nests for efficient space-saving when not in use.
Tilted Soup Bowl
American inventor Jake Jacobs holds the patent for the tilted soup bowl. Spooning the last drops of soup at the bottom of the bowl is easier with the interior's tilted bottom. This shape can aid feeding for small children and patients in the physiotherapy and occupation therapy markets.
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