The bowl is the prefect size to make french toast for one or two people. I crunch up some dry cereal, like oats and almonds I dip the bread in the egg batter in the first bowl and then coat the bread with the crunched up cereal and fry in butter. Then you have Crunchy French Toast. I have had Corelle Ware in my cupboard since about 1976. My first set was white with a green flower edge. Gave those to my sister as she has the same set and then purchased, the white with blue trim in 2002. I gave that set to a friend as I had purchased the all white dishes (That way I could use any color of table cloth and all would match). In all the years there has been only broken plate. When it broke it shatter right over a hot roaster full of lasagna. We peeled of the top layer and ate the rest