A salad in a bowl sits next to a small pie in a pie dish

Chawan, drinking bowls used in a Japanese tea ceremony

Bowls used as construction tools in contemporary India.

The bowl, a common open-top vessel in many cultures, is used to serve food, and is sometimes also used for drinking and storing other items. They are generally small and shallow, although some, such as punch bowls and salad bowls, are larger and are sometimes intended to serve many people at once. Bowls have existed for thousands of years. Modern bowls can be made of ceramic, metal, wood, plastic, and other materials. Their appearance can range from very simple designs of a single color to sophisticated artwork. Download high resolution version (921x624, 117 KB)A salad in a small bowl sits next to a chicken pot pie and a fork. ... Download high resolution version (921x624, 117 KB)A salad in a small bowl sits next to a chicken pot pie and a fork. ... Two typical usuicha (thin tea) bowls for the Japanese tea ceremony. ... Two typical usuicha (thin tea) bowls for the Japanese tea ceremony. ... A woman wearing a kimono performs a tea ceremony outdoors, while seated in seiza position. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Women_moving_soil_with_bowls. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Women_moving_soil_with_bowls. ... Vessel can refer to any of the following: Objects Vessel (French vaissel, from a rare Latin vascellum, diminuitive of vas, vase, or urn), a word of somewhat wide application for many objects, the meaning common to them being capacity to hold or contain something. ... Drinking is the act of consuming a liquid through the mouth. ... Look up punch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Salad Platter Salad is a term applied broadly to many food preparations that are a mixture of chopped or sliced ingredients. ... Fixed Partial Denture, or Bridge The word ceramic is derived from the Greek word κεραμικός (keramikos). ... Hot metal work from a blacksmith In chemistry, a metal (Greek: Metallon) is an element that readily forms positive ions (cations) and has metallic bonds. ... Trunks A tree trunk as found at the Veluwe, The Netherlands Wood is a solid material derived from woody plants, notably trees but also shrubs. ... Household items made out of plastic. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

Bowls are ubiquitous. Some bowls can be safe to use in a microwave oven, depending on the material that the bowl is made out of. In the U.S. some microwave meals are sold in plastic bowls, such as those marketed under the Healthy Choice and Uncle Ben's brand names. Movie theaters often serve popcorn in large cardboard bowls, usually referred to as tubs.Soup is usually served in a bowl, although cups of soup are also common. In examining bowls found during an archaeological dig in North America, the anthropologist Vincas Steponaitis defines a bowl by its dimensions, writing that a bowl's diameter rarely falls under half its height and that historic bowls can be classified by their edge, or lip, and shape. The British/American standard soup bowl has a mouth, the opening not including the extent of its lip, with a diameter of 18.5cm, and should be able to adequately accommodate at least 24 oz. of liquid. In classical Greece, small bowls, including phiales and pateras, and bowl-shaped cups called kylices were used. History of Ancient Pottery describes how phiales were used for libations and included a small dent in the center for the bowl to be held with a finger, although one source indicates that these were used to hold perfume rather than wine. Microwave oven A microwave oven, or microwave, is a kitchen appliance employing microwave radiation primarily to cook or heat food. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into TV dinner. ... Healthy Choice is the name of a brand of refrigerated and frozen foods owned by ConAgra Foods, Inc. ... Uncle Bens is a brand name for parboiled (converted) rice and related food products. ... A typical multiplex (AMC Promenade 16 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California). ... Popcorn Popcorn or popping corn is a type of maize which explodes from the kernel and puffs up when it is heated in oil or by dry heat. ... Soup is usually a savoury liquid food that is made by combining ingredients, such as meat, vegetables and beans in stock or hot water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth. ... ... Anthropolology (from the Greek word , man or person+knowledge) consists of the study of humanity (see genus Homo). ... Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, which begins roughly with the earliest-recorded Greek poetry of Homer (7th century BC), and continues through the rise of Christianity and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (5th century AD... Species see text Phiale is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). ... The word patera has various meanings: A patera was a broad, shallow dish used for drinking, primarily in a ritual context such as a libation. ... Kylix may mean: Kylix (drinking cup), a type of drinking cup used in ancient Greece Kylix programming tool This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Libation scene, Greek red figure cup, c. ... Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils and aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body, objects, and living spaces a pleasant smell. ... A glass of red wine This article is about the alcoholic beverage. ...

They were invented by Caitlin in the fall of 1998. After Pop Tarts.

See also

• Buffet
• List of eating utensils
• Dishware

A Chinese buffet restaurant in the U.S. A buffet (buh-FAY or /bə.ˈfei/) is a meal-serving system where patrons serve themselves. ... This is a list of eating and serving utensils. ... Some dishware Dishware is a general term for objects—dishes—from which people eat or serve food, such as plates and bowls. ...

References

• Steponaitis, Vincas P (1983). Ceramics, Chronology, and Community Patterns: An Archaeological Study at Moundville, pp 68–69. New York: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-666280-0. (Table of contents available online)
• Walters, H.B. (1905). History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, pp 140,191–192. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

External links

• The Phiale of Achyris - On the website of the Archeological Institute of America. The Phiale is dated from 300 BC and is made of gold, includes pictures.