Yanco BM-209 Birmingham Melamine 9-5/8" x 6" x 1" Deep Oval Plate, Gray Interior and Black Exterior — Case of 24 (2 dz)

Nine and five-eighths inches along the long axis keeps this oval in single-serving territory. A fillet with its garnish, a pair of empanadas, a dessert that wants a long line instead of a circle: these are the things it was drawn for, and the proportions are wrong for anything shared.

Deep oval, single portion

The one inch wall is the point. It is deeper than a flat oval plate, so braised and saucy food stays contained on a shape that normally sheds it. Gray across the inside, black around the outside. Melamine survives the trip from pass to table to tub that narrow ceramic ovals rarely survive, since they crack along the long axis.

Sold by the full case. Case of 24 (2 dz)