Salad bowls are usually big, Plastic Plate round and shallow.
Since salad greens are the most common ingredient used to make salad, the bowl does not have to be very deep, just deep enough so you can toss the salad without bits of it falling over the edge of the bowl.
Salad Bowl Materials
You can get bowls in wood, plastic, stainless steel, and glass. A glass salad bowl is good if you want the salad to be seen through the bowl or if you want to make sure you have tossed it enough.
Maybe you are using brightly colored or exotic ingredients, in which case it is nice to display them in a glass bowl.
Glass is also easy to chill and you can chill this salad bowl in the refrigerator before filling it with salad, so it stays colder for longer.
Stainless steel can also be chilled, although stainless steel salad bowls are less popular than the glass or wooden ones because they are not so decorative.
A wooden salad bowl might be hand finished or pre-finished.
Pre- finished means that it is varnished all over to make it waterproof and to keep it looking good.
Hand finishing is when seasoning oils, walnut oil, or mineral oil are rubbed into the wood. It is good to rub beeswax on to the wood too, to stop the bowl from Baking Packaging cracking if it dries out or if you miss any part with the oil.
