What are standard bowl sizes?

What are the common bowl sizes for serving and cooking?

Okay, so bowl sizes, huh? It's tricky. I bake a lot.

My favorite mixing bowl? Ten inches across, roughly. Perfect for my double batch of chocolate chip cookies (December 12th, 2023, my kitchen, cost me about $15 at Target). The rim's about two inches.

The well inside? Yep, around six or seven inches wide, maybe an inch and a half deep. It’s just right. Too small, and things spill over. Too big, and mixing gets awkward.

For serving, it depends. Soup bowls are smaller, obviously. I have a set of six, bought them last year at a home goods sale – they are about 8 inches across. Smaller bowls, for cereal, even less. There are so many variations!

Standard sizes seem to hover around nine to ten inches for cooking bowls. That’s what I always see anyway.