Salad For Dinner: Seeking Really Big Salad Bowls

Emma Christensen
Emma Christensen
Emma is a former editor for The Kitchn and a graduate of the Cambridge School for Culinary Arts. She is the author of True Brews and Brew Better Beer. Check out her website for more cooking stories
published Jul 26, 2011
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What do you do when your veggie-packed summer salads grow too large for a plain old salad bowl or even a dinner plate? You get creative.

I’ve been living on a diet of mostly salads in this latest heat wave, and I’m rather embarrassed to admit that I’ve been eating them right out of my medium-sized stainless steel mixing bowl. These are huge leafy salad monstrosities, made into a meal with beans, diced fruit, raw vegetables, bits of cheese, and nuts. They’re much bigger than a salad bowl can handle and none of my other dishes quite does the job either.

What I really need is a small-sized serving bowl. Or perhaps a very large soup bowl. Something right around eight inches in diameter and with a good deep bowl would be perfect.

I’ve been keeping my eyes open for just such a bowl, and here are a few candidates I’ve recently spotted:

• Great White Coupe Serving Bowls (Set of 3), $58 from Pottery Barn
• Large Beautiful Cobalt Blue Bowl, $45 from Etsy seller Wilson River Pottery
• Skyn Bowl (Set of 2), $19.99 from Ikea

Do you have a favorite dish for eating really big salads?

Related: A Well-Stocked Kitchen: Our Favorite Serving Dishes

(Images: Pottery Barn)

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