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Stirring it up in stoneware bowls

Which would you rather mix up some cake or waffle batter in? 

My birthday present, that stoneware beauty pictured above, or some soulless plastic thing?

No contest. I like stoneware better. Sure, it's heavy, though I prefer to describe it as "substantial." And yeah, if you try really hard, it's breakable. But until my wrists finally give out I'm going to keep using stoneware  just for the aesthetic pleasure I get from working with it.

Stoneware is also nice for drinking out of. You can enjoy a cool one and get some upper body exercise hoisting one of thesestoneware beer mugs.

Stoneware and plastic are not  incompatible. In this week's Food for Thought Seattle Times food blogger Nancy Leson reveals that she always cops those hotel room plastic shower caps to take home and use as covers for her stoneware bowls.  Unlike plastic wrap, you can wash and re-use them.  Good tip.  Here's one from me:

Never try to catch a falling knife.

"Mixing bowl set designed to please a cook with round bottom."

– classified ad.

 

 

Dick Stein joined KNKX in January 1992. He retired in 2020 after three decades on air. During his storied radio career, he hosted the morning jazz show, co-hosted and produced "Food for Thought" with Nancy Leson and wrote and directed the Jimmy Jazzoid live radio musical comedies and 100 episodes of Jazz Kitchen.