Key Takeaways
Bowl cozies are made out of a number of layers of cloth quilted collectively.They’re designed to suit beneath bowls within the microwave and let you deal with sizzling dishes safely.Whereas designed for bowls, you need to use them with plates and different serving dishes as nicely.
I’ve by no means been a microwave snob. Some issues simply cook dinner sooner and are extra handy within the microwave, whether or not it’s corn on the cob, baked potatoes, single-serving mac and cheese, and even poached eggs. I principally use my microwave to zap leftovers. And in flip, I nearly at all times zap my fingers by burning the heck out of them when grabbing a sizzling bowl within the microwave.

Or at the very least I did till I found my microwave cooking savior: a bowl cozy!

A bowl cozy (additionally known as a bowl hugger) is sort of a potholder molded to suit your bowls, so you may seize meals utilizing the material as a substitute of constructing direct contact with a superheated bowl. 

They’re manufactured to be microwaved, so no want to fret about them catching on hearth or overheating. They’re designed to hug your bowl and provide you with a superb grip for eradicating them from the microwave with out burning your self.

I first found them at my mates Harry and Jarrod’s one Christmas. We reheated soup in heavy-duty ceramic bowls that get scorching sizzling within the microwave. Jarrod’s mother had made the bowl cozies as items, and so they saved our fingers! As an alternative of asking Mrs. Swartout to make me one, I used to be impatient and ordered some on-line. (I used to be that impressed!) 

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Now I’m the proud proprietor of a set of two bowl cozies, like these ones. Mine have fruit and vegetable patterns and are made with a number of layers of quilted cotton.

My bowl cozies are about 3.5 inches tall on the corners and eight inches throughout, with an roughly 5-inch base. I’ve positioned bowls bigger than 5 inches in diameter in them—together with 8-inch huge East Fork’s on a regular basis bowls, which I certainly use each day. The cozies are moldable sufficient which you could squash them down or perk them up relying on the dimensions of your vessel. 

The one draw back of utilizing a bigger bowl is that you simply gained’t have as ample of “handles” on the edges to choose up your sizzling bowl, so it’s slightly extra of a balancing act to slip it out of the microwave from the underside. 

Despite its title, these bowl huggers work for plates too! The comfy can flatten down into the form of a potholder—I’ve used mine for as much as 12-inch dinner plates with out concern. There’s an array of sizes and custom-made choices on Etsy, so you can theoretically get one as large as your microwave base, if you wish to get a greater, safer grip in your bigger plates.

When you flip to the bowl cozy life, I promise you’ll be “stunned”—and with far much less burn threat.



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