Apple-Shaped Porcelain Casserole Dish, 2 Piece, Oven to Table

Food that leaves the oven in one dish and reaches the table in another arrives lukewarm, and there is a second dish waiting to be washed.

What Are the Key Features of This Apple-Shaped Porcelain Casserole?

• Oven to table in one dish - nothing cools while it is being transferred, and there is no second bowl waiting in the sink afterwards.
• Two pieces, most likely a dish and a lid - two is the count given, without naming them, so confirm from the photographs. The lid is what keeps a long meal hot.
• Porcelain does not absorb - earthenware takes on the fat and smell of the last thing cooked in it; dense fired porcelain has nowhere to take it.
• Bring it up with the oven - heat it as the oven heats rather than putting it into one that is already hot.
• Shaped as an apple - this is the dish for a table where it will be seen, not the one that lives at the back of a cupboard.

Where Can You Use This Porcelain Casserole?

• A baked pasta or a moussaka carried straight out
• A dessert served warm
• A gift that gets used rather than shelved
• The Ramadan table, where food sits out while people talk

Why Choose Porcelain Over Earthenware for a Casserole Dish?

• Fired denser than earthenware - it has nowhere to take on the fat and the smell of whatever was last cooked in it.
• That density also holds heat - the walls carry warmth into the meal rather than shedding it the moment the dish leaves the oven.

Details

What's in the Set

• 2 pieces - most likely a dish and a lid, the usual pairing for this type of set. Count them off the photographs before ordering.
• If the second piece is a lid, it is the part that earns its keep - it holds the heat in through a long meal where people talk between servings, and it lets the same dish go into the fridge afterwards without a sheet of cling film over it.

Material & Build

• Described as porcelain - the properties argued above (no absorption, heat retention, dislike of thermal shock) are properties of porcelain generally.
• Apple-shaped. Worth confirming from the photographs before relying on it.

Dimensions

• Capacity decides how many it feeds - judge it in the photographs against a dish you already own.

Care

• Bring it up to heat with the oven rather than putting it into one that is already hot, and never take it from the fridge onto a flame - a sudden change of temperature is the one thing porcelain dislikes.

Specifications