This is basically a plate-sized bowl, wide enough to contain a whole balanced meat-veg-starch-dinner, with curved-up sides so you can also use it for pastas, salads, soups, cereals, saucy leftovers, serving a giant pile of sugar cookies.

Household salad wooded bowls consist primarily of receptacles for preparing and serving food and vary widely in dimension, shape, and weathertightness. wooded salad bowls are used the world over for serving dry food, such as fruit and bread, and they are also used as plates and bowls.