Giant porcelain bowls from a capacity of 3 liters for an opulent presentation of large arrangements of dishes and delights. In the truest sense of the word, the term jumbo bowls applies to these giant porcelain bowls.
These giant bowls made of high-fired hard porcelain are characterized by the high craftsmanship of traditional porcelain production and have become a rarity in many places. It takes two to three employees alone to move the shape of the bowl during production. In the kiln, you take the firing place of up to 14 drinking cups and, in addition, you can only fire on a few levels on the kiln car. The risk of deformation, cracking and disproportionate shrinkage tolerances is extremely high and the scrap rate of II. Choice is usually 30% and more. This is actually quite logical, because the larger a body is, the greater the surface for points, cracks and glaze noses to attack. Apart from large GN bowls and oven moulds, the gastronomic demand for such jumbo bowls has decreased significantly in the past decades.
melamine, plastics and other press and injection moulding materials make it difficult for porcelain to hold the bastion of buffet and display bowls. Price differences of 20 euros and more certainly call the added value of porcelain into question, and only aficionados and discerning hosts now place value on an elegant and stylish presentation of their dishes. Jumbo bowls are one of the dying out types of gastronomy porcelain and therefore already today, where they can be bought at all, they have the claim of being manufactured goods with a high collector's value. Even in our country, the reproduction of about half of all giant bowls is questionable. It's a pity, but that's the way it is with the change in values.
