A collaboration with British designer Aaron Probyn, they add a pastel sophistication while maintaining a level of functionality. Since then I’ve added many to my cabinets, including these pale pink Kaloh stoneware pasta bowls from West Elm. Shallow bowls are indeed ideal for a family-style meal where dishes may contain precious sauce that you’ll want to pour over rice. Do not get those American plates.” My mom was right. When I moved into my first apartment in college, my mom handed me two pasta bowls with some advice: “These are better for Chinese food so that the sauces don’t spill. And couldn’t we all use a little hug these days? Below, hear from the Bon Appétit team about the best pasta bowls in the business-and what to serve in them. Brothy toast needs walls to hem in all of its runny goodness, a little hug around the food that keeps it together. The base of the dish is wide enough to hold the full slice of bread, and the sides keep the liquid pooled, ready to be spooned into your mouth. Personally, I find that the perfect food for a shallow pasta bowl is a brothy, saucy something spooned over toast (see here and here). Once you go pasta bowl, you never go back. Grains and other bitsy ingredients, sloshing sauces, meaty drippings, dip swooshes, even chunky soups and stews benefit from being served in a dish like this, improving both the presentation (it matters) and the eating experience. But the walls (which can be gently sloped or more perpendicular to the base, depending on your aesthetic tastes) keep the contents of your meal corralled together, with no risk of spilling over the sides. ![]() ![]() The base of a pasta bowl is flat rather than curved, giving you ample surface area for spreading a dish out rather than up. Pasta bowls are wide, low, and shallow-essentially plates with high walls, boasting the best that both plates and bowls have to offer. Namely, that we don’t like them! Sure, we will use them in a pinch, but most of us on staff agree that the premier vessel for eating, the one we use in our homes for lunch and in the test kitchen for showing off our latest creations, is a pasta bowl. The Bon Appétit team Slack channel is a place for big feelings and last week those feelings coalesced around plates.
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