Can you use normal bowls for steaming Christmas pudding?

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I went to collect my C&C item of a pudding bowl today but Argos lost it so I am sans pudding bowl today.

Anyone tried steaming them in normal bowls?

My mum always used to steam it in a pyrex mixing bowl.

They turn out rather like hockey pucks or cowpats. It's the depth that's needed.

TBH, individuals in mugs and the ubiquitious Sports Direct mug many people seem to have knocking around in a cupboard are more likely to have edible results (but grease very well and make sure there's a four ply thickness, inch wide pair of greasproof paper strips to be able to get the latter out after steaming).

Any thick glass bowl of right shape will do, pyrex bowls are ideal, I do small ones in ordinary cups and they work fine too. I wouldn't use a metal bowl, you want a bit of insulation from the heat which glass gives.