30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I love it!, February 10, 2004
My wife and I are starting our 4th set of dishes in 20 years of marriage. We figured if we did the mix and match thing with the colors, we could add a new color instead of changeing an entire set of dishes as pieces get broken, lost or whatever. Over the years I can't tell you what my kids have done to our dishes. They use serving bowls as cereal bowls, take dishes outside and eat. Dig holes in the yard with the spoons. Not to mention how they have this built in ability to chip a dish or two a month. This is one reason we started our fiestaware collection. I like this size bowl for side dishes. The weight and quality speaks when you pick up a piece. I do really love the colors.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great bowl for teenagers, November 6, 2003
By A Customer
This is the best bowl for teenager portions of cereal, ice cream or spaghetti. They also make good fruit or candy bowls to set on your counter. I do want to warn people that the photos colors for persimmon are too light on this website; the actual bowls are a medium red/orange. I knew this before I ordered it... You can't beat the price free with a four piece setting. We love it!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for feeding teens and dogs... and it's a serving dish, too!, December 28, 2009
In our house, these bowls are my 15yo son's standard cereal bowl. (No kidding!)
Turns out, it's a really nice dog bowl, too. I started doing this so I could melt some chicken schmaltz I was mixing in with her dry food, and I wanted to put her bowl in the microwave. But I'm not going back to her old metal bowls... I like having colorful bowls for her. So she has one of these for food and a 2-quart for water.
And hey, they're serving bowls, too! And also good for baking cobblers and the like.
Fiesta is amazingly solid and long lasting... I have yet to chip or break a piece in about eight years since I first started working on my set. And of course, there's all the wonderful colors. (Note: I don't buy from Mega any more myself... I tried that once and got several pieces with glazing errors.)
Oh and FYI... I always have a hard time guessing dimensions on Fiesta bowls, so here you go. This one is about 8.25 inches in diameter, outside, and 7 inches in diameter, inside. And about 2.75 inches high total, about 2.25 inches high inside. It holds about half a pound of cooked pasta, depending, of course on what type of pasta that is. (E.g., spaghetti or alphabets, no, those sit densely together. Rotini or shells, yes.)
I used to prefer Fiesta's mixing bowls for large bowls. I like the classic Revere-bowl shape of those. But when our supply of those bowls couldn't keep up with cereal boy and I needed more, I decided to try these 'cause they're cheaper, and now I really like them. I guess now I'm more likely to use the small mixing bowls for serving and these for feeding the boy. These are also the bowl I tend to grab for myself for a large salad that's a meal.
(Note on the mixing bowls. The smallest, aka "421 Small Mixing Bowl" (7.5"), is 44oz.; the middle size aka "422 Medium Mixing Bowl" (8.5"), is 60oz; and the largest, aka "482 Large Mixing Bowl" (9.5"), is 70oz.)
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