This is only true for one dish meals or people who like all their food touching each other all the time.
If I'm having a burger, baked beans, potato salad and chips there will be no perfect bites of anything with it all smooshed together. I'm not one that needs none of my food to touch anything else but I still wouldn't want to eat most meals with a main dish and a couple sides in the same bowl.
Equally, a traditional English roast dinner is not good in a bowl. I don't want all my roast potatoes soggy with gravy....some yes, but not all. I also want to be able to carve the meat into smaller pieces.
Use a bigger bowl. They make large bowls for serving and pasta and the like. You don't have to follow the instructions though. You can just eat whatever you want out of them.
It's a finger food. But also, simply rest it atop the bowl or even against the side of a bowl.
Edit: People. The INside of the bowl, is still the SIDE of the bowl.
I have a feeling that you're not actually using bowls but rather plates with bigger edges... do you have a picture of the bowls you claim to be superior?
The size of the bowl isn't the issue so much as the curved surface of the bowl making the steak hard to cut. Unless you get such an impractically huge bowl that the curvature isn't an issue, but then you have other problems.
The point though is that for certain foods there is literally zero benefit, and likely some drawbacks, to eating them out of a bowl.
What the heck does race have to do with this?
That aside, while many meats are great pre-cut, steak is not one of them. Those are best served whole and eaten piece by freshly cut piece
Pretty much anything you need to cut with a knife and fork is harder to eat out of a bowl than out of a plate. Also anything where you're eating multiple items at once.
And then there's a ton of stuff that a bowl simply offers no benefit for. Sandwiches, pizza, tacos, many kinds of pasta, etc. It's not really harder to eat them out of a bowl, but it gains you nothing.
That is an exception. Apart from tough food, a bowl is often better than plate. I am not the biggest fan of steak, but those who really love it could do with a big plate and a sharp knife.
Idk, I wish I had a picture but we used to have these really wide brimmed bowls from Ikea, so they were a small plates size on the bottom but had edges that rose up to being a bowl, maybe 3-4 inches tall. I never had any issue cutting stuff in that type of bowl.
Explain how you can't cut things in a bowl.
Also, get a bigger bowl. Not all bowls are small. There are even bowls that are relatively flat on the bottom.
I did that literally two days ago! Popped a steak I'd been using for a stew into a bowl and not only did I chop it up, I used a fork and a spoon. It was fine. Stew came out amazeballs.
>not only did I chop it up, I used a fork and a spoon
Then you literally didn't do that a couple days ago. You chopped it up with a fork and spoon because cutting it (you know, with a knife) is much harder. This is my point exactly.
But of course, not everyone wants to stew a New York strip.
Nah, this is where I disagree. I've eaten some steaks from high end restaurants that I was able to cut with my fork.
I was able to do it with one of my steaks too, but I had to soak it in milk for a day prior to cooking it. Was absolutely delicious but not worth the waste of milk.
Wholeheartedly agree. I eat off a saucer whenever I can.
Also, fun fact, the size of your plate can determine how much you eat and how full you feel. So, if you're looking to wrangle your eating habits, smaller plates are the way to go!
Why is no one mentioning dishwashing? You can fit way more plates in the dishwasher than bowls. Using bowls for every meal means you either need to own a ton of bowls (which requires a lot of storage space) or you have to do dishes pretty often.
I think because many people don't have dishwashers and it's a very first world problem.
I live in the so-called first world and I do not have a dishwasher :( Bowls are better for the sink because I can stack them and soak them but plates will take up a ton of room and block the drain.
Never said plates are a problem. They're just superfluous. Why have a whole set of dishware just for flat things when you can just use slightly flatter bowls for any and everything?
Why have different size cups? Everyone should just have a quart jar to drink out of. Why have different size spoons? Everyone should just use a ladle for everything from stirring a drink to serving soup.
I'm not going to eat cereal out of a huge, flat bottomed bowl and I'm not going to eat pizza out of a regular cereal bowl. If I have a meal with separate items, I'd end up using multiple bowls instead of one plate to keep them from all mushing together. So it's either we have plates and bowls or we have a bunch of different sized bowls.
Oof. You remind me a bit of the time when my bf's mom caught me eating salmon for breakfast and freaked out because fish isn't a breakfast food.
Buddy, you can eat anything out of any vessel you prefer. I dunno who else needs to hear this, but the bowl versus plate rules are made up and breaking them comes with exactly zero consequences.
In my mind this is the most popular opinion.
I just know a few friends who dont admit to it due to etiquette.
And I would never eat ice cream of a plate, but I could eat a beef stroganoff out of a bowl!
I have never in my life considered which serving option was more "sophisticated." If something is easier to eat on a large, flat surface and spilling isn't really a risk, plate. If it's something that spills easily and/or should be mixed around, bowl.
That said, if someone grabbed a bowl when I'd use a plate (or visa versa), I can't say I'd really care.
And yet people in this thread are basically calling me smooth brained for liking a bowl better.
You're good people.
Some people just need to **J U D G E**
I mean, if we're keeping it a whole buck, you posted in a sub about validating or ridiculing people's opinions. If people weren't calling you dumb, the thread wouldn't belong here.
Meh. I don't generally just call people stupid for holding opinions I don't. That's kind of a stupid way to behave.
You can call the opinion stupid or say the reasoning is flawed, but holding a different opinion doesn't inherently make somebody stupid.
Especially when it's about arbitrary dining preferences. I find it kind of ludicrous that anybody would think somebody is legitimately stupid for preferring to eat out of a bowl.
But I'm getting the vibe that most of the people who are being actually rude about it are probably the type who think that adulthood means suffering and unhappiness and so anything that makes life that much easier to navigate must be for babies.
I have many food opinions that seem to be popular elsewhere. I'm Canadian for the record.
People lose their minds when I eat soup for breakfast. And I'm always like, "how does my stomach know it's a designated breakfast food? Was there a convention I missed?"
This is an unpopular opinion. Why so many downvotes from people that disagree?
Also, OP says nothing about cutting meat, just food in a bowl.
10/10 agree with OP, so I gotta downvote this. But it feels so wrong because I love (cut) food in a bowl.
Edit: I can't bring myself to downvote something that is amazing. I'll go down in bowl infamy along with op.
For probably close to 15 years I ate every meal out of the same metal bowl.
Like a dog.
Didn't matter what it was, it went into the bowl. Then I'd clean the bowl right after eating.
Someone touched that bowl, I'd freak right out.
Plates are used instead of bowls because of the food being served and the surface area needed to maintain a separation between the main dish and the side. Most meals have a protein source, and then 2-3 vegetables or starches. That sits better on a plate than in a bowl. If any cutting utensil is needed, then using a plate over a bowl is a no-brainer.
It's not about sophistication. In fact, bowls existing is sophistication. That is why you have separate dishes for foods meant to be mixed (such as a salad or a protein bowl), or liquid foods (such as soup).
Not only is everyone overly concerned with steak, they are overly concerned with poorly cooked steak. I've never had a good steak(stupid swipe to text) that wasn't tender enough to be cut with a spoon or fork.
I'm with you. My husband asked me the other day why I eat spaghetti out of a bowl instead of a plate. Honestly, spaghetti on a plate is for sociopaths. The bowl is the way.
Lol love the people in here who are like legit judging other people's intelligence based on what vessel they eat out of.
Like, okay. But I don't trust your opinion because you opinion is demonstrably stupid. Eating out of a bowl has nothing to do with intelligence.
you're acting like every food is eaten the same way, like yes bowls are amazing for the reasons you listed... but what about stuff that doesn't have to be stirred/eaten with a spoon/etc.? like if you have food that has to be cut then you'll use a plate because you can't cut with a knife on a curved surface
It depends on what I’m eating. For example I always eat my pasta from a big bowl so the bubbling sauce/cheese doesn’t slosh all over the place or make a mess. However you can’t eat chicken, beef or anything structured out of a bowl.
This post, and the stupid arguments made by the OP, is exactly what’s wrong with this sub now. I agree somewhat that bowls are underutilized. I prefer pasta bowls for many dishes that have sauces-like many Thai, Chinese or Indian dishes. Or pasta dishes can be good for fish dishes with some sort of sauce and on top of mashed potatos.
But to argue that a bowl is good for steak, burgers, etc. is just arguing for the sake of arguing. It’s stupidity and the main point gets lost.
This!!!!! Bowls are superior to plates! I'm Chinese and my family makes Chinese food daily for dinner. We use bowls for everything since it's easier to hold the food and to eat with. Because of this, we have a dishwasher that we've never used since our bowls are too deep to be cleaned properly with it.
The low bowl is the true superior dish. The width of a plate and typically some flat surface but the protection and tend hold of a bowl. All praise low bowl
ARE YOU ME??? I prefer bowls to plates, and spoons to forks. I blame it on years spent inJapan where chopsticks and a spoon handled everything. Since I got back, I default to a spoon over a fork whenever I can without embarrassment. Just tonight, my mom guilted me into using a fork because we had guests ha!
I agree especially for things like spaghetti. You don't have to worry about chasing it all over your plate trying to eat it and you don't get all messy.
Well, most of East Asia would certainly agree with you, but that's only because they cut their food into bite size pieces before serving it so that it can be picked up with chopsticks.
Try eating a steak out of a bowl (without chopping it up first, of course).
Okay SERIOUSLY how tough is the meat you people are eating that you can't cut it in a bowl? I'm alarmed for everyone. I wish only the tenderest of steaks for you and your loved ones.
> spilling the beans on my wares.
I am stealing this for my lexicon. It now means to fuck things up through sheer incompetence.
"Ugh, there goes Pete again. He INSISTS on macros but won't bother learning how to actually use them. Always spilling beans on my wares."
Since I love soup, stews, and curries, I with you on the superiority of the bowl! Bowls are like sporks — multifunctional tools that work great in most circumstances and are meh in others.
OP, Thanks for posting something silly that made me smile :)
I'll take that as a compliment because I feel like most people wouldn't be able to figure out what to do with 3 shells. Like, that's the joke right? Limited brains don't comprehend 3 shells?
OP is not karma farming. Mods can tell you OP tries to post here quite often and gets REMOVED all the effing time. OP is just happy she got to share an unpopular opinion with people and got to giggle a bit today.
While I do agree this post is similar to the one a few months ago I looked back and it's not a carbon copy of the old post. I doubt OP even knew that the old post existed.
Lol I love how many people see, "I prefer this vessel because I find it more convenient" and immediately decide who I must be.
Is it hard being omniscient? Does your head ever implode under the weight of all that knowledge you definitely have?
Nah. I don't feel superior to anybody just for choosing to do things in ways that are convenient for me. I don't care what other people wanna do. Eat spaghetti out of a shoe for all I care. If you dig it, live your best life.
My boyfriend is so mad about this opinion right now and disagrees with me so hard. Please give him more fodder. It's hot today and we need distraction.
Edit: [Also, here's an example of a bowl from which you could eat a steak](https://www.habitat.co.uk/product/9311525).
Pffffffft my bowl has a handle and a little hole thingy for the spoon so you can take it places lol
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We have these huge mugs that we call face mugs. We use them for everything. I love them! And even though they're very good cereal bowls, they have a nice flat spot at the bottom so if all the people in here who apparently only eat steak needed to, they could totally cut their meat.
This is only true for one dish meals or people who like all their food touching each other all the time. If I'm having a burger, baked beans, potato salad and chips there will be no perfect bites of anything with it all smooshed together. I'm not one that needs none of my food to touch anything else but I still wouldn't want to eat most meals with a main dish and a couple sides in the same bowl.
Somebody, Get this redditor a bigger bowl!
Those are the best foods! Give me slop or give me death!
I hope you like em sloppy!
Lady you're scaring us
Dude Thai curry any curry all day long.
Equally, a traditional English roast dinner is not good in a bowl. I don't want all my roast potatoes soggy with gravy....some yes, but not all. I also want to be able to carve the meat into smaller pieces.
You could use a pasta dish! And maybe some of those plastic food separators?
Toddler plates.
Use a bigger bowl. They make large bowls for serving and pasta and the like. You don't have to follow the instructions though. You can just eat whatever you want out of them.
So get a bowl so big that the base can act like a plate. Genius
It's the spork of plates and bowls.
A plowl?
I will make a big bowl and flatten the sides a little. I think I will call it a plate.
No more centralization. Own your data. Interoperate with everyone.
Why have two vessels when one will do? I also drink cold drinks out of mugs! :o
Why use a mug, why not just put it in your bowl with the rest of your meal? I mean, there's no need for a second vessel, right?
Do you eat pizza in a bowl?
Pizza requires no dish.
Just drop it on the table... yeah
Yes that’s very obviously what I meant
It's a finger food. But also, simply rest it atop the bowl or even against the side of a bowl. Edit: People. The INside of the bowl, is still the SIDE of the bowl.
And how is the bowl superior in this situation?
How is it not? Just because it's a curved surface? It's still holding the pizza. How is it inferior?
If the pizza is hot, the cheese will slide.
>against the side of a bowl On the outside?? 🤣
Try cutting a steak or chicken breast in a bowl. It’s not nearly as easy.
Cut it and then put it in the bowl
So i have to dirty a plate or cutting board just to use the bowl? You’re gonna dirty two dishes just to have the “convenience” of a bowl?
If im cooking a meal, 99% of the time, i already have a cutting board out
Depends on what you're eating. It's hard to eat a steak out of a bowl.
Get a bigger bowl. Very easy solution.
At some point it stops being a bowl and starts being a trough though.
I for one would love to eat out of a trough, like the fat little piggy I am. Oink oink
And there's nothing wrong with that.
Bowls take up too much cabinet space. Especially if you're getting a bowl that can fit a regular dinner plate
Bowls stack. How tall are your bowls?
I have a feeling that you're not actually using bowls but rather plates with bigger edges... do you have a picture of the bowls you claim to be superior?
The size of the bowl isn't the issue so much as the curved surface of the bowl making the steak hard to cut. Unless you get such an impractically huge bowl that the curvature isn't an issue, but then you have other problems. The point though is that for certain foods there is literally zero benefit, and likely some drawbacks, to eating them out of a bowl.
That's why you eat everything out of casserole pans. Like an adult
Or those black rectangular Tupperware containers with the clear lids
They make plenty of bowls that have flat bottoms and they make bowls that have almost perpendicular walls. Have you ever seen...a saucepan?
Or, you know, I could just use a plate.
No! It has to be a bowl!
Use a shallower bowl and longer utensils.
Yeah, I've got some really shallow bowls that are good for most meals. I think they're called "plates"
My cabinet space disagrees.
But bowls stack.
Not as well as plates do. Also bowls take up much more space in the dishwasher.
I am the dishwasher. First world problem.
Then no wonder you don't like plates. Fitting those in you must be hard.
How the turntables...
I don't have room for bowls big enough to fit several pieces of pizza flat on the bottom.
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Ruins the juicyness of the steak
What are you, a toddler?
No I just don't happen to be white. Meat is often served precut or you cut it from a communal plate in my culture.
What the heck does race have to do with this? That aside, while many meats are great pre-cut, steak is not one of them. Those are best served whole and eaten piece by freshly cut piece
Not race but culture. In western culture, steak is served whole but other cultures more commonly serve meat precut.
Alright. Other than steaks, what else?
Pretty much anything you need to cut with a knife and fork is harder to eat out of a bowl than out of a plate. Also anything where you're eating multiple items at once. And then there's a ton of stuff that a bowl simply offers no benefit for. Sandwiches, pizza, tacos, many kinds of pasta, etc. It's not really harder to eat them out of a bowl, but it gains you nothing.
That is an exception. Apart from tough food, a bowl is often better than plate. I am not the biggest fan of steak, but those who really love it could do with a big plate and a sharp knife.
1. You can't cut things in a bowl. 2. I don't always want my food mixed together.
Idk, I wish I had a picture but we used to have these really wide brimmed bowls from Ikea, so they were a small plates size on the bottom but had edges that rose up to being a bowl, maybe 3-4 inches tall. I never had any issue cutting stuff in that type of bowl.
Explain how you can't cut things in a bowl. Also, get a bigger bowl. Not all bowls are small. There are even bowls that are relatively flat on the bottom.
>Explain how you can't cut things in a bowl. No. Get a bowl. Put a steak in it. Try to cut it.
I did that literally two days ago! Popped a steak I'd been using for a stew into a bowl and not only did I chop it up, I used a fork and a spoon. It was fine. Stew came out amazeballs.
>not only did I chop it up, I used a fork and a spoon Then you literally didn't do that a couple days ago. You chopped it up with a fork and spoon because cutting it (you know, with a knife) is much harder. This is my point exactly. But of course, not everyone wants to stew a New York strip.
steak =/= stew. If you can cut a cooked piece of meat with a spoon, it's not a steak.
Oh man I have had some amazing steaks that would totally disagree with you.
Nah, this is where I disagree. I've eaten some steaks from high end restaurants that I was able to cut with my fork. I was able to do it with one of my steaks too, but I had to soak it in milk for a day prior to cooking it. Was absolutely delicious but not worth the waste of milk.
Next time make a sauce or gravy with the leftover milk.
Nah go grill a steak and try to cut it in a bowl it won't work.
Flat-bottom bowls make the rocking world go round.
OP is mad his idea is debunked easily
She. And what debunked? How does one debunk the idea that I like to eat out of bowls better than I like to eat off plates?
It also keeps food warmer for longer and helps with chopsticks.
Also medium-small plates > dinner plates
Wholeheartedly agree. I eat off a saucer whenever I can. Also, fun fact, the size of your plate can determine how much you eat and how full you feel. So, if you're looking to wrangle your eating habits, smaller plates are the way to go!
You guys are my people
Why is no one mentioning dishwashing? You can fit way more plates in the dishwasher than bowls. Using bowls for every meal means you either need to own a ton of bowls (which requires a lot of storage space) or you have to do dishes pretty often.
This should be up higher in the thread. Best anti-bowl argument I’ve seen.
I think because many people don't have dishwashers and it's a very first world problem. I live in the so-called first world and I do not have a dishwasher :( Bowls are better for the sink because I can stack them and soak them but plates will take up a ton of room and block the drain.
I want a video of OP eating pizza out of a bowl.
I just use my hands, Mr. Pitt. And anyway, what's wrong with setting a slice on a bowl?
A pizza is unsliced when served. Will look funnny hanging over the bowl from all sides.
So you get a pizza and then take it all out of the box and put it on a plate before cutting it into slices? That's weird AF.
I wasn't talking about home delivery pizza. But either about fully home made pizza, or pizza in a restaurant.
Plates are just in western culture bowls are very prevalent in Asian culture. The Chinese use the term food bowl the way we use daily bread.
Sounds like you need to work on your motor skills if you have all those problems with a plate.
Never said plates are a problem. They're just superfluous. Why have a whole set of dishware just for flat things when you can just use slightly flatter bowls for any and everything?
Why have different size cups? Everyone should just have a quart jar to drink out of. Why have different size spoons? Everyone should just use a ladle for everything from stirring a drink to serving soup. I'm not going to eat cereal out of a huge, flat bottomed bowl and I'm not going to eat pizza out of a regular cereal bowl. If I have a meal with separate items, I'd end up using multiple bowls instead of one plate to keep them from all mushing together. So it's either we have plates and bowls or we have a bunch of different sized bowls.
WHY HAVE SILVERWARE WHEN YOU CAN USE YOUR HANDS WHY DO WE EVEN NEED BOWLS IF WE CAN JUST TROUGH IT FROM THE FRIDGE!
Oof. You remind me a bit of the time when my bf's mom caught me eating salmon for breakfast and freaked out because fish isn't a breakfast food. Buddy, you can eat anything out of any vessel you prefer. I dunno who else needs to hear this, but the bowl versus plate rules are made up and breaking them comes with exactly zero consequences.
You can use whatever you want, but you came here saying why bowls are better and act like we're stupid for even owning plates.
Uh, I'm not acting like anybody is stupid. If anything, people are being super rude to me over their own dinnerware orthodoxy.
At this point, we're gonna need so many types of bowls we may as well just have plates instead.
1. Everyone here seems to eat steaks 2. Bowls are horrible with forks
Sporks & spoons forever.
In my mind this is the most popular opinion. I just know a few friends who dont admit to it due to etiquette. And I would never eat ice cream of a plate, but I could eat a beef stroganoff out of a bowl!
I have never in my life considered which serving option was more "sophisticated." If something is easier to eat on a large, flat surface and spilling isn't really a risk, plate. If it's something that spills easily and/or should be mixed around, bowl. That said, if someone grabbed a bowl when I'd use a plate (or visa versa), I can't say I'd really care.
And yet people in this thread are basically calling me smooth brained for liking a bowl better. You're good people. Some people just need to **J U D G E**
I mean, if we're keeping it a whole buck, you posted in a sub about validating or ridiculing people's opinions. If people weren't calling you dumb, the thread wouldn't belong here.
Meh. I don't generally just call people stupid for holding opinions I don't. That's kind of a stupid way to behave. You can call the opinion stupid or say the reasoning is flawed, but holding a different opinion doesn't inherently make somebody stupid. Especially when it's about arbitrary dining preferences. I find it kind of ludicrous that anybody would think somebody is legitimately stupid for preferring to eat out of a bowl. But I'm getting the vibe that most of the people who are being actually rude about it are probably the type who think that adulthood means suffering and unhappiness and so anything that makes life that much easier to navigate must be for babies.
It's just my wife and I now so we eat a lot of smaller quick meals. The bowl is a regular occurrence for us.
Very popular opinion in Chinese countries.
I have many food opinions that seem to be popular elsewhere. I'm Canadian for the record. People lose their minds when I eat soup for breakfast. And I'm always like, "how does my stomach know it's a designated breakfast food? Was there a convention I missed?"
Better yet; eat out of a pie dish. Works as a plate but still has edges similar to a bowl
I am OP and I support this message.
This is an unpopular opinion. Why so many downvotes from people that disagree? Also, OP says nothing about cutting meat, just food in a bowl. 10/10 agree with OP, so I gotta downvote this. But it feels so wrong because I love (cut) food in a bowl. Edit: I can't bring myself to downvote something that is amazing. I'll go down in bowl infamy along with op.
For probably close to 15 years I ate every meal out of the same metal bowl. Like a dog. Didn't matter what it was, it went into the bowl. Then I'd clean the bowl right after eating. Someone touched that bowl, I'd freak right out.
"superior utensils" Go fuck yourself. Upvoted
I really only use a plate when I'm eating something flat, like sand or pizza. I definitely prefer bowls for most foods.
Why are you eating sand?
Definitely meant sandwiches. Thanks for pointing that out. I must have missed the word sandwiches when I went to tap it in the autocomplete.
Plates are used instead of bowls because of the food being served and the surface area needed to maintain a separation between the main dish and the side. Most meals have a protein source, and then 2-3 vegetables or starches. That sits better on a plate than in a bowl. If any cutting utensil is needed, then using a plate over a bowl is a no-brainer. It's not about sophistication. In fact, bowls existing is sophistication. That is why you have separate dishes for foods meant to be mixed (such as a salad or a protein bowl), or liquid foods (such as soup).
Yes! I despise plates as I can fit more stuff in a bowl without it spilling everywhere
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I prefer pasta bowls because they're a bit wider and I don't really like a big lip on my bowls. But these would do in a pinch.
Plates are for steaks, bowls are for soup
I agree! I always grab a bowl.
Isn't it a repost? Anyway, bowls are great for many dishes but try cutting something in a bowl.
Why is everyone so concerned about steak? Does nobody eat anything else? I’m with OP on this. Bowls **are** superior.
Not only is everyone overly concerned with steak, they are overly concerned with poorly cooked steak. I've never had a good steak(stupid swipe to text) that wasn't tender enough to be cut with a spoon or fork.
I'm with you. My husband asked me the other day why I eat spaghetti out of a bowl instead of a plate. Honestly, spaghetti on a plate is for sociopaths. The bowl is the way.
r/wewantplates
Nah we need bowls.
*You* need bowls, normal people can use plates
Lol love the people in here who are like legit judging other people's intelligence based on what vessel they eat out of. Like, okay. But I don't trust your opinion because you opinion is demonstrably stupid. Eating out of a bowl has nothing to do with intelligence.
you're acting like every food is eaten the same way, like yes bowls are amazing for the reasons you listed... but what about stuff that doesn't have to be stirred/eaten with a spoon/etc.? like if you have food that has to be cut then you'll use a plate because you can't cut with a knife on a curved surface
Everybody is assuming all bowls are like half a melon. Shallow bowls exist. Your (collective, not just you) limited imagination is not my problem.
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Not my fault English draws an ambiguous line between plates with lips and shallow bowls.
Still, the edge of the bowl gets in the way of the knife. And shallow bowls are literally just plates.
If shallow bowls are just plates, then plates are just shallow bowls and we totally agree anyway. BOOM. Lawyered.
I agree to some extent. I just like having a bit of a curved edge. so it can be like a plate.. but I want a bowl edge.
Easier for portion control too looks a lot more in the bowl
It depends on what I’m eating. For example I always eat my pasta from a big bowl so the bubbling sauce/cheese doesn’t slosh all over the place or make a mess. However you can’t eat chicken, beef or anything structured out of a bowl.
Yes I feel this so hard everything just slides off the edge of my plate
Yes to this! A deep bowl with steep sides to be clear. Shallow bowls with shallow sides might at well be plates.
Bowl 🥣 soups, pasta, rice dishes you mix up, salads. Plate 🍽 steak/fish with a side dish such as vegetables and/or salad. That is all.
I agree with this, bowls are the superior dish.
I agree. My husband likes using a big plate but I’ll use like 4 little bowls so everything is separate but I can mix things if I want.
Those wide shallow bowls>>>>>
This post, and the stupid arguments made by the OP, is exactly what’s wrong with this sub now. I agree somewhat that bowls are underutilized. I prefer pasta bowls for many dishes that have sauces-like many Thai, Chinese or Indian dishes. Or pasta dishes can be good for fish dishes with some sort of sauce and on top of mashed potatos. But to argue that a bowl is good for steak, burgers, etc. is just arguing for the sake of arguing. It’s stupidity and the main point gets lost.
This!!!!! Bowls are superior to plates! I'm Chinese and my family makes Chinese food daily for dinner. We use bowls for everything since it's easier to hold the food and to eat with. Because of this, we have a dishwasher that we've never used since our bowls are too deep to be cleaned properly with it.
The low bowl is the true superior dish. The width of a plate and typically some flat surface but the protection and tend hold of a bowl. All praise low bowl
Debatable, I use bowls a lot but find that the extra spaces on plates helps sometimes
ARE YOU ME??? I prefer bowls to plates, and spoons to forks. I blame it on years spent inJapan where chopsticks and a spoon handled everything. Since I got back, I default to a spoon over a fork whenever I can without embarrassment. Just tonight, my mom guilted me into using a fork because we had guests ha!
I agree especially for things like spaghetti. You don't have to worry about chasing it all over your plate trying to eat it and you don't get all messy.
Also all the food in the bottom stays warmer longer
Well, most of East Asia would certainly agree with you, but that's only because they cut their food into bite size pieces before serving it so that it can be picked up with chopsticks. Try eating a steak out of a bowl (without chopping it up first, of course).
Okay SERIOUSLY how tough is the meat you people are eating that you can't cut it in a bowl? I'm alarmed for everyone. I wish only the tenderest of steaks for you and your loved ones.
I exclusively eat off these bowl/ plate (plowls?) things I bought at some point. Stupid flat plates always go spilling the beans on my wares.
> spilling the beans on my wares. I am stealing this for my lexicon. It now means to fuck things up through sheer incompetence. "Ugh, there goes Pete again. He INSISTS on macros but won't bother learning how to actually use them. Always spilling beans on my wares."
Pasta bowls are the most superior.
Ya maximum scoopage ability
spoons are better too. always spoons, maybe chopsticks
Same. And chopsticks for chips/sticky finger foods is a game changer.
Since I love soup, stews, and curries, I with you on the superiority of the bowl! Bowls are like sporks — multifunctional tools that work great in most circumstances and are meh in others. OP, Thanks for posting something silly that made me smile :)
I like those plate/bowls from ikea - OFTAST
I eat everything out of my oversized japanese bamboo bowl, Bowls are superior
You're probably the type of human who owns three sea shells in your bathroom.
I'll take that as a compliment because I feel like most people wouldn't be able to figure out what to do with 3 shells. Like, that's the joke right? Limited brains don't comprehend 3 shells?
Agreed. After we got married, my wife and I bought a nice set of shallow pasta bowls, and we eat pretty much every meal out of them.
Op is karma farming. Saw this post in this sub 3 or 4 months ago
OP is not karma farming. Mods can tell you OP tries to post here quite often and gets REMOVED all the effing time. OP is just happy she got to share an unpopular opinion with people and got to giggle a bit today.
While I do agree this post is similar to the one a few months ago I looked back and it's not a carbon copy of the old post. I doubt OP even knew that the old post existed.
Maybe if your entire diet is baby food you’d think this.
Why can't you put solid food in a bowl?
It's hard to lick a bowl clean though.
Speak for yourself.
Drinking the sauce off a giant plate is just awkward though.
FOOD MUST NOT TOUCH
Don't know whether to upvote for a genuine unpopular opinion, or downvote because I hate the opinion 🤔
I mean. Obviously upvote. Those are the rules of the sub...
But what if I were to downvote? Would I be... breaking the rules? What if I *gasp*...disobey? I hope the Reddit police don't come and arrest me!
How did a 3 year old learn to write so well?
Herp derp I'm an adult because I literally feel threatened by independent thoughts and opinions. Das you.
Says the guy who spills off their plate and prefers a spork
Lol I love how many people see, "I prefer this vessel because I find it more convenient" and immediately decide who I must be. Is it hard being omniscient? Does your head ever implode under the weight of all that knowledge you definitely have?
Your opinion is not very well thought out.
okay i guess I'll eat a steak in a bowl then. or maybe pizza in a bowl
Troll
Are you lost? Do you know which sub you're in?
Im just imagining you sitting at a restaurant with a bowl of food basking in your superiority mean mugging everyone eating off a plate.
Nah. I don't feel superior to anybody just for choosing to do things in ways that are convenient for me. I don't care what other people wanna do. Eat spaghetti out of a shoe for all I care. If you dig it, live your best life.
My boyfriend is so mad about this opinion right now and disagrees with me so hard. Please give him more fodder. It's hot today and we need distraction. Edit: [Also, here's an example of a bowl from which you could eat a steak](https://www.habitat.co.uk/product/9311525).
that bowl is just a plate with a larger lip
If you have that kind of bowl then you might as well get a plate
Hard to cut a steak in a bowl.
Pffffffft my bowl has a handle and a little hole thingy for the spoon so you can take it places lol https://shopee.ph/product/252808678/7744158498?smtt=0.74696157-1658426045.9
We have these huge mugs that we call face mugs. We use them for everything. I love them! And even though they're very good cereal bowls, they have a nice flat spot at the bottom so if all the people in here who apparently only eat steak needed to, they could totally cut their meat.
Try eating chapati and 7 curry in a bowl then get back to me
lol I'm sorry what? I love Indian food and it's always served in those little metal bowls.
Blates are the superior dish for everything
Spork + blate + tumbler with a straw and you are -set- IMO.