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Tips for buying ceramic bowls

Pulished on Jan. 20, 2021

Ceramic bowls are indispensable to our daily life, and we often need to buy new ones for our families.  Buying a bowl is a small matter, but choosing a bowl is a matter need to be with great care.  Here are a few tips to help you to avoid buying incorrect bowls when you are choosing a bowl that is safe to use for your family.

1.Please note that you should try to choose regular supermarkets or well-known brands to buy bowls. Do not be cosy with temporary cheap prices, otherwise it will be easy to buy bowls with excessive lead and cadmium. Using such tableware will harm your body.  

2.When you buy a bowl, don’t forget to check it for any distortion.  Deformed bowls are mostly of inferior quality, and there is a risk of excessive heavy metals.  Some vendors buy this kind of inferior quality at a low price to sell, if we do not pay attention to, it is easy to spend money in vain.  It’s easy to tell if the bowl is out of shape.  All you have to do is put two identical bowls next to each other and see if they are connected together .  

Tips for buying ceramic bowls

3.Many bowls have a variety of patterns on their surfaces.  Obviously, these bowls are more likeable.  However, there is a little knowledge we must understand, the pattern on the bowl is divided into glaze color, glaze color, glaze color.  Under-glaze color is the embryo and pattern of the bowl fired at a high temperature of more than 1000 degrees, the color of the pattern in the under-glaze.  The other two are painted with dye on the fired ceramic, and then fired at a high temperature, the colors are on the upper layer of the glaze.  They differ in dye and temperature of secondary firing.  When you buy a bowl, touch the pattern of the bowl with your hand. If there is a very obvious concave and convex feeling, and even some patterns also appear to fall, this is a low-quality ceramic glaze color, you must not buy it. At the same time, we try not to buy too gaudy bowl with too many colors on the inner wall, it will be better to buy white bowl, they are the most safety.

Tips for buying ceramic bowls

4.When you buy a bowl, you should play the bowl with your hand. The crisp sound shows that the bowl is well fired and there is no gap inside the porcelain.  On the other hand, if the bowl sounds muddy and ugly, there are hidden cracks inside.

Tips for buying ceramic bowls

5.When buying a bowl, look at the ends and ends of the bowl.  The edge of the bowl need to be warped, the bottom of the bowl must be more deeper and thicker.  So as the bowl is not easy to scald your hands, but also non-slip, more practical.  

Tips for buying ceramic bowls

6.After buying the new bowls, it is best to boil with boiling water for 5 minutes first, and then soak in the vinegar at normal temperature for 1 to 2 hours, to dilute the toxic molecules in porcelain, so as to contribute to healthy diet.

Tips for buying ceramic bowls