Big bowls and serving dishes

Executive Member Joined: May 22 2008 Posts: 289

Where do people keep their awkward sized serving dishes and bowls? We have several long rectangular glass dishes and big glass bowls that are fragile. Plus we have a bunch of very heavy serving platters. We're moving in a couple of weeks and we want to have a better system when we move into our house. Currently, all of our serving pieces are stashed together in a closet and it's very difficult to get out the ones that I want to use. Any suggestions?

Platinum Member Joined: Oct 14 2009 Posts: 5893

If they're pretty, I have seen people set them up in a breakfront... of course, you need the furniture for that... I personally just go with the awkward, clumsy way for now

Posted: Mon, Jul 12 2010, 7:28 am Post subject: re: Big bowls and serving dishes

I have all the glass ones in my breakfront. Anything else I might have, I just put where there's space.

Platinum Member Joined: Mar 07 2007 Posts: 10429

I got rid of most of mine. I use regular dinner plates as serving platters, and the moderate size serving bowls that came with my dishes. If I have a lot of people, two or three dinner plates of meat or chicken or two bowls of cholent will go out rather than one huge tray or one giant bathtub-size bowl. Easier to pass around, and more than one person can serve himself at the same time. My style of cooking tends toward smaller volumes of a greater variety of dishes, but whether this is the reason for or the result of my having smaller serving pieces is anybody's guess.

Diamond Member Joined: Jun 24 2008 Posts: 3319

I have a huge pantry and I use the top shelf for storing serving platters and bowls.

Executive Member Joined: May 22 2008 Posts: 289