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Yeah, I gotta question! Why hasn't kitchenaid, in all their lovely glory, re-designed their product to allow for easier pouring?! Even the Barefoot Contessa leaves a dusting around the bowl when making her decadent everythings! And that, my friends, is a tragedy. Plus, I always get paranoid--"Oh no, some of the flour/baking soda/spices missed the bowl! What if that single teaspoon is the deciding factor between glorious scones or inedible bricks?!" [insert frantic use of a bench scraper to catch every errant particle]. Yup, put me in the I-hate-mess-so-please-give-me-bowls category!

I can totally see how these bowls would help with pouring into a KitchenAid mixer, batter into a bundt pan or the Baker's Edge pan, or even filling muffin tins. I'll review them!

damn. everyone missed the deadline.

Thanks, ung, for pointing that out. We fixed it: it's tomorrow, September 7.

Too bad too I would have like to know how they worked.
Looks to me like they would be just as difficult to pour into the bowl.

I've always thought of myself as a clean as I go baker. When something's in the oven, I do the dishes and put away the ingredients. My new kitchen(ette) has made me realize I could be even more so. I tend to run out of counterspace before I even begin. But I'm determined to continue baking and I would love to see how these bowls could keep the kitchen tidy as I bake.

Hmmm... There's always flour everywhere when I bake, including often a crapload on myself. I always thought just getting an apron would be the solution, but maybe these bowls would help too.

These would be perfect for pouring cupcake batter into paper-lined muffin pans. Since vegan cake batter tend to be more runny than traditional, you can imagine the drips of batter all over the pan when using a spoon or ice cream scoop. And how nice to be able to neatly pour an ice cream mixture into a 3 inch spout without spilling onto the lid?

I love baking...always have, since I was a little girl with my kids' cookbook in hand. The problem is that I'm not exactly the cleanest baker. To me, you can't possibly be making something delicious unless you and your kitchen are covered in flour and melted chocolate. My father banned me from cooking in his kitchen, though I don't think he's any cleaner than I am. My fiance just stays out of my way when I'm baking and trusts that I'll clean it all up in the end. I usually do...

I'm Miss Tidy Baker/Cook. clean-up so much easier if you clean as you bake.The longer you let batter sit in bowl, the harder it is to scrub off.

sometimes splatters are good...then you can eat the batter ;)

but my kitchen tends to get very messy, and it can be tough to be neat when filling cupcake liners, plus these bowls would be helpful when making soup- i don't have an immersion blender, so I use a bowl as swap space since I usually have to blend in at least 2 batches.

I love their modern look and their practicality! Anything to shorten clean-up while baking would be a help.

I could have used these just this morning. I spooned some sugar into a little tupperware container and spilled some all over the place. I don't even know how!

I think these are beautiful bowls. I just don't see how they would keep the mess down on pouring into a Kitchenaid.
The problem with the Kitchenaid is there isn't much space between the bowl and the head. So that is why you get so messy pouring ingredients.
That said I would love to see a beautifully designed bowl that would solve the problem.
And you definately have to clean as you go as a baker. Baking is a sciene - what baker would have a huge mess?

My son is a 16 year old cooking junkie,he's so far had fun with silicone, and double cake pan.! But he's still learning and being a 16 year old boy, neatness isn't something that comes with the standard model. I'd like to see if this will prevent batters and other messes from being all over my floors for a while!! They aren't great floors, but have you ever stepped into pudding mix at 3 am?? Not nice. And it gets between your toes something terrible.

Hmm, how to prove that I am both pithy and eloquent and therefore worthy of your bowls...

No clue.

But, seriously. Anyone who pours ingredients into a whizzing KitchenAid is just asking for a mess of slapstick proportions. Don't we all know that? And don't we all know how to avoid that without a $30 set of bowls??

Call me unconvinced-- but willing to be persuaded. Especially since the man is the baker and KitchenAid user in this household, and often somewhat less than tidy. (His years in restaurant work apparently left him with an eternal impression that he has a dishwasher somewhere just aching to clean up after him.)

Lemme at those bowls. I'll soon know if they're worth the shelf space...

I don't really have any hope that I could ever pour into my kitchenaid in a tidy manner. But I'd be willing to give it a try with these bowls...

I have the opportunity to cook with many different people and could provide the review of how these bowls work with kids, grown-ups, and cooking in a group. I cook with two children once a week, just yesterday we made bread, and could have used something to help pour the flour into the Kitchen-Aid mixer. My cooking group meeting gets together to make meals in advance and we always need more bowls for the sauces, soups, and other delicious meals we prepare together. So, to get the review from the four year-old to the Mom of three kids, send those bowls up to Massachusetts.

Oooohhh something to help reduce the flour explosion that happens when I try to get the last bit of the dry ingredients out of the bowl into the running KitchenAid. Lovely idea. I wonder if they are hard to store? It doesn't look like they would stack very well.

I'm not the messiest baker, but lately we've instituted "dinner nights" with the children - each kid is the head chef for dinner one night per week. Last week my 9 year old and I were making snickerdoodles for dessert, and his style is to alternate between being maniacally careful, pouring in the granulated sugar one grain at a time, and extremely careless, pouring the flour in fast, one big POUFF!. The eggs, oh, the eggs. We also make a lot of pancakes and the pouring is always a disaster (for the pancakes, the counter, the mixing bowl, the child's fingers, AND the stove!). We'll take any help we can get!

I bake often in my 8 x 6 kitchen. It has only two surfaces, both smaller than four feet square. I'm an untidy baker under the best conditions, but in my kitchen which compels me to clean as I move from one step to the next, I am only messier.

The bowls are beautiful, though.

Sorry for the delay (we're on the road) - random.org says eSusan is our winner! Thanks, all. Looking forward to the next Giveaway Thursday in just a few days.