/ck/ - Food & Cooking

you make this every week>?
You can't serve a soup in a square dish, you can't plate as simply as you can on a round dish with items centered.
I have square plates and bowls and they never get used.
Even porridge or muesli out of a square bowl fucking sucks

>>11914002
what are you talking about? the corners make it easier to gather up the last few spoons of soup or cereal milk.

>>11914010
a round bowl has infinite corners

>>11914028
yeah one big shallow as fuck corner

>>11914010
It just doesn't. You have a round spoon in a fucking square.
Do you even own square bowls?

>>11914042
ask yourself why the cup in op's pic aren't square. try to imagine drinking from one.

Square dinnerware has to be the strangest shill.

there are no squares in nature

>>11914065
because the round shape works better with the shape of your mouth. still dont know why a plate needs to be round unless you bring it up to your mouth to scrape the last bit like a toddler.

>>11914116
>plate
*bowl
we were talking about bowls

>>11914125
same idea, if you dont put your lips on the rim of a bowl then why does it need to be round?
round stuff is still shit when it comes to taking up space.

>>11914144

>round spoon
>square bowl
one of those things does not go into the other

>>11914148
unless the curve on the spoon matches the curve on the bowl perfectly you are just full of shit

>>11914144
Tbh my lips and tongue are constantly on/in a rim.

>>11914163

>squares have curves but you're full of shit

it's good to use a variety of plates, particularly different shapes. oval, circular, square, rectangular, some others would be nice though i don't own any irregular shapes. some meals are just better presented in a certain shape, and if i knew a good place to buy some nice handmade lacquerware crockery then i'd be all over that. white is overall the best colour for serving, black can be effective also, but sometimes i yearn for a gorgeous blue or beige glistening lacquer finish to a plate.

there's no one plate that can be used for all dishes. part of the ideal of having a variety of utensils to use is that there's another element of freshness and surprise in your meal, in addition to the meal itself. you can make your plate shine in ways it might not have done in another frame. a meal you've cooked a dozen times might be apparently different just given a different structure in plating. it's something you can play with.

>>11914173
honestly it's as much of a drag scouring the dregs from a square bowl as it is from a round bowl, but there's at least a definitive corner to push things into with a quadrangle, so you're not just pushing it around forever.

>>11913986
Potter here. Square dishes would make firing dishes in the kiln a lot more efficeint, too. However, human beings are attracted to circles, hemispheres and cylinders in eating and drinking utensils because they are very ergonomic forms for us and they are, by extension, psychologically pleasant. If you look at the traditional methods of making ceramics and 15,000 years of human pottery, forming round clay vessels seems remarkably innate, too. I've thought about that a lot over the years. Round ceramic utensils are almost like humanity's honeycombs. Instinctual. Square will always be a niche for special applications where its functional advantage outweighs its general pleasantness.

>>11915392
Interesting ideas about something so common we never even consider it thoughtfully.

>>11915562
The only reason I consider it so much is because of my jerb. I watch people use dishes and pay attention to their comments about them. It's very interrealated to the way people eat food and socialize around eating. The instinctual aspect is just a hunch. I'm not qualified to distinguish between cultural and natural biases of the way people eat. But you can look at ancient pottery and see they all made circular forms. You can give a child a piece of clay and they make round little pinch pot cup-bowls. Kinda makes me think humans have an instinctual ergonomic preference for holding a semi-spherical food bowl or cup.

>>11914010
do you square fucking spoons too?

That's why I use tuperware, but I'm trash

>>11915882
Archaeological evidence supports your theory that it's instinctual since the utilitarian pottery discovered so far from prehistoric man is circular or cylindrical even when they didn't have potter's wheels. Almost like the constituent elements of language that are hardwired in the brain of homo sapiens.

>>11916615
Not necessarliy evidential, because prior to the invention of the wheel, coil pots were placed on stumps and the potter would turn walk around the pot or rotate it as the height was being built up. Also, round pottery has a massively higher chance of being fired without exploding. The surface area to volume ratio of spheres and cylinders make them more resistant to thermal shock. From a physics standpoint, it's almost like pottery was meant to be round. Making round things is just easier. But isn't instinct a predictable behavioral pattern that usually adheres to pragmatic results? There are several comments above as to why round containers are easier to eat from. Ususally, round cooking pots work better, too. Think about stirring a big pot of soup or something. What would happen if the pot was square?

>>11913986
It's easier and faster to clean round dinnerware.

>>11913986
Imagine having this much trouble with plates

dod op buy a square set and was hoping for validation here?

>>11913986
My mom started collecting square dinnerware, you have the tastes of a 60 year old woman.

>>11915392
Why not make it an octagon or a hexagon as a compromise?

>>11913986
you're a square living in a circle world OP

>>11913986
Hexgons would be better

>>11916615
go to bed Noam

>>11922924
>transformational generative grammar theory is fake
You stepped on your dick hard this time.