dish or bowl, please help settle this!

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Nimbostratus100 · 15/02/2023 13:18

We have two items of crockery, we dont know which is which

A - like large tea cups without handles - no part of the item is flat

B- like small plates with upturned edges all around - the centre is flat

Is one a dish and one a bowl?

Both can be used for ice cream, custard, soup etc

purely at random...

YABU - A is a dish and B is a bowl
YANBU - B is a dish and A is a bowl

or can both be either? Or are neither of them dishes or bowls?

Thank you!

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StandALot · 15/02/2023 16:58

CalpolDependant · 15/02/2023 16:36

A is a bowl. The kind I would use for cereal, snacks or noodles. B is a dish. The kind I would use for pasta, soup or risotto.

But tbh, I dgaf: just place marking so I can come back and look at a photo of OP’s crockery. Highlight of my day.

🤣 I've only got so many to take pics of.

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Nimbostratus100 · 15/02/2023 17:00

StandALot · 15/02/2023 13:55

I've just taken a pic of mine op.
The one to the left as you look at it is a bowl, the one to the right is a dish.

thank you - that is exactly the difference I was trying to describe

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kimchifix · 15/02/2023 17:05

I would call both bowls too - I don't think I call anything a dish except maybe a serving dish but then those are platters aren't they? I'm going away to Google "dish" now.

greenspaces4peace · 15/02/2023 17:07

Rimmed soup bowls and pasta dishes look very similar
there are china diagrams that explain this

Anyotherdude · 15/02/2023 17:25

A bowl is a type of dish, a dish is a type of bowl!

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