Multi-component meals? Like, steak & potatoes? Burger & fries?
People in Japan will often discuss whether curry should be served on a plate or in a bowl. Personally, if it’s Japanese-style curry, I prefer a bowl because there’s a lot of soupy roux and it’s often served OVER rice, not with it. But for South Asian (not only Indian) style curry, I usually prefer a plate. There’s also the issue of a spoon or a fork for curry, and again I prefer spoon for Japanese curry and a fork for South Asian curry.
If it fits it sits.
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Your pic demonstrates the need for a term like blate (which I hate BTW). That bowl is to me nothing like this sort of bowl which is what I’d use for really liquidy things:
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IMO, bowls are bowls and plates are plates. The food to be contained therein should determine what the vessel should be. Wet, soupy, drippy? Bowl. Dry (dry-ish)? Needs cutting at the table? Plate. This is for western-style foods. And again IMO, the vessel determines the utensil to be used. Bowl? Spoon. Plate? Fork (and possibly knife, too). Chawan? Chopsticks.
Just across the figurative table however, we have Mrs. ricepad, who, I’m pretty sure if she were single, would use many MANY more bowls than plates. She likes to hash up a lot of her food so she’d probably cut it all up into bite-size pieces and eat it from a bowl, using a soup spoon.
I don’t eat ice cream from a plate. I don’t serve steak in a bowl.
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Oh, lord, I am with you so much! “Blate” sounds onomatopoetic. Like ‘fart’.
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I learned a new word today!! YEA!!
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Why not? A blate might help a burger or sandwich from sliding/falling apart, and better corral the fries. Effluent from wet slaw might not be welcome, though.
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So, a bowl full of bowls.
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Hard no on that.
Bowl inception!
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Plates are plates, bowls are bowls. I use both.
Steak tips, baked tater - plate.
Chicken and asparagus - plate.
Chili or spaghetti and sauce- shallow bowl.
Something semi-wet like shepherd’s or cottage pie - shallow bowl.
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Maybe bowls vs plates are the continued migration to convenience.
Eat from a bowl for convenience vs eat from a plate based on presentation.
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Anything with a raised rim is a bowl to a trencher.
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Not sure where you are, but the Indian groceries in NJ have these.
A bowl is a bowl and a plate is a plate. I use both. That said, Pyrex pie plate use to be a favorite when I didn’t cook much, moved around and didn’t have a lot of dinnerware. I still have a couple somewhere but never use them. Microwave ready and I had a pot lid that fit perfect for refrigerator storage. It reminded me of tin chuck wagon plates with a small rim.
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