May I Recommend Buying An Enormous Mixing Bowl?

I’ve known my roommate Larissa since college and have lived with her for a couple years, though it feels longer, possibly due to the amount of time we’ve spent indoors together this year. Larissa has many great qualities. Off the top of my head, and in no particular order: She is always down to spent an extravagant amount of money on or travel far out of our way for a good meal; she scours Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist for deals on very good, free furniture; she can find out anything about literally anyone with a simple Google Search and access to popular social media platforms in 10 minutes or less.

But on top of all of those things, she works for a major home gadget company. Obviously, I reap the benefits of this. As she tests new products in our kitchen and gets sent new stuff, I get to try them too. But no item she’s had shipped to our apartment—no matter how fancy, how well-designed, or how ergonomically friendly—has made this year better for me personally than the big bowls in our kitchen.

I did some research before I started writing this because there’s no way I could be the first person on the internet to advise that you should buy a big bowl as a laudatory piece of dining-ware. But despite all odds it…it kind of seems like I am? Don’t get me wrong, other people have written about food in big bowls before. Quartz explained why food tastes better out of a big bowl. (“They don’t just feel good in the hand, bowls are also beautiful.”) It makes your food taste better, according to Shape…