Oval Serving Platter

$86.00

A 38 cm oval platter with a dished floor, oven safe to 220 °C and flat enough for a dishwasher rack.

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  • 38 cm long: fits a whole chicken and a standard dishwasher rack
  • Dished floor keeps resting juices at the centre
  • Oven safe to 220 °C when it goes in cold
  • 1.6 kg, so it stays put while you carve

Specification

Length
38 cm
Width
24 cm
Well depth
Approx. 2 cm
Weight
Approx. 1.6 kg empty
Material
Glazed stoneware, vitrified
Oven
Safe to 220 °C, from a cold oven
Dishwasher
Safe, lies flat on a standard bottom rack
Variation
Expected between pieces

38 cm long and 24 cm across, with a well about 2 cm deep. Long enough for a whole roast chicken or a row of grilled vegetables, and narrow enough to lie flat on the bottom rack of a standard dishwasher. That second measurement is the one nobody publishes and everybody discovers later.

The well

The floor is slightly dished so resting juices collect at the centre rather than running to the edge and onto the table. The rim is 1.5 cm wide, which is enough to get a cloth-covered hand on each end when it is loaded.

Oven use

Oven safe to 220 °C, starting from a cold oven. Put the platter in cold and let it come up to temperature with the oven. Do not slide a cold platter onto a hot shelf, and do not set a hot platter down on a wet worktop. Reactive glaze over a vitrified body takes heat well and takes sudden change badly.

Weight

About 1.6 kg empty. The weight is deliberate. A light platter slides across a table while you carve on it.

Food contact

[Client to confirm food-contact testing for this glaze, the standard it was tested against and the date of the test, before any food-safety statement is published here.]