Large porcelain bowls with a capacity of 1.5 to 1.99 liters are mainly used as buffet and serving bowls or as serving bowls for large tables. Like many other manufacturers, we at Holst Porzellan only carry a few models in this size range. Mostly to round off existing bowl series towards the top. One and a half liter bowls let the price difference to the much cheaper ceramic bowls grow to proud amounts and thus tempt the layman to buy at first. But only high-fired porcelain bowls made of hard porcelain retain the many advantages of catering porcelain and should not be compared or even confused with much cheaper ceramic bowls. The larger a serving element is, the more susceptible it is to breakage and edge chipping, and the larger a bowl, the more edge chipping resistance it should have.
Many of our customers ask us again and again what size distinguishes a porcelain bowl from a porcelain bowl. Even Wikipedia and Gute Frage provide very little information about this differentiation. Especially if you consider that in Germany there is the belittlement by bowls and small bowls.
From the history of porcelain we interpret that a bowl was and should be dedicated to use and a bowl to presentation. Therefore, we still speak of a kitchen bowl and less of a kitchen bowl. We do not even know a mixing bowl. Also from the point of view of sensation, wash bowl sounds far less elegant than buffet bowl. Accordingly, bowl and bowl are separated by a form of value and elegance.
Or now bowl or dish, those made by Holst Porzellan keep what a host and gastronomer expects from a porcelain bowl with a high commercial use.
