Pasta plate

Abstract

Disclosed a pasta plate having a raised border that is slightly higher than a conventional dinner plate to contain the pasta on the plate base within the perimeter in an enclosure formed by the plate side wall inside of the raised border. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the raised border is substantially widened in one area to provide a border for a separate high walled recess for twirling the pasta with a fork. The recess preferably has high internal walls that approximate the shape of an egg cup, but with a substantially flattened bottom that is adapted to accommodate the width of the tines of a fork which is intended to be twirled therein. Two other important features include the fact that the recess has high walls and is separated from the plate base, both of which serve to automatically limit the size of the portion being wound to that of a reasonable mouthful of pasta. Another feature is the area separating the high walled recess from pasta enclosure forms a surface which can be used with a utensil such as the fork to shorten pasta that is too long for the volume in the high walled recess, which keeps the portion in the recess to a reasonable mouthful of pasta.

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