Info. on "dough bowl", please

Hmmmmmm? I've only seen the term "dough bowl" applied to old-fashioned, wooden pieces, most of which were oblongish in shape. They weren't used so much for mixing, as for holding the dough while it proofed.

Any chance of you posting a pix?

 

You didn't manage to post the images.  At least not here. 

Upload your photos to your own computer, into the My Pictures file (if you're using Windows). 

Once they're there, use the upload tool with this software (the icon looks like a little painting -- and is located next to the icon which looks like a film strip, which in turn is located next to the paper clip). 

Usually a round-bottom bowl shape is meant for beating things with a whisk -- like cream and egg whites, for instance. Mixing anything as stiff as dough wouldn't be facilitated in any way.  So, it seems like you were sold a bill of goods as well as a bowl. 

In any case, you seem to be stuck with a bowl you don't like and have no use for.  Unless it's hallmarked by Paul Revere, my suggestion is to donate it to a charity thrift store, take a deduction in an amount of about 80% of what you paid for it originally, and be done with it.

The alternatives, like listing it on ebay, probably aren't worth the bother.

BDL

 

Confirmed -- a whisking bowl, as for whipped cream and egg whites.

BDL

 

Looks like a great cereal bowl to me! /img/vbsmilies/smilies/biggrin.gif

 

Gotta wonder if it isn't sort of zabiglione specifc.  It would certainly be perfect as a whisking/mixing bowl over hot water for zabiglione, saboyan, hollandaise, and other hot emulsions.  Don't do a lot of that stuff either?  In any case, we've got a copper bowl just like it -- supposedly just for egg whites. It's primary use is decorative though.

BDL

 

How big is it, FB?

If manageable size, it makes sense to use it as the top of a double boiler set up, as BDL suggests. If not, I agree: donate it to the Salvation Army.

 

My grandmother had a bowl shaped like that, except hers was wood.  She put it in her lap and used it for all sorts of things like peeling apples and shelling beans.

 

It could be used as a very nice pan to get a round topped cake. It could also be used to make a cookie bowl. (This is now on the list of things for me to figure out.)

 

The copper bowl on the right is the one we use for egg whites and zabagliones.



We got it for a song at one of the booths at El Mercado del Este de Los Angeles, aka El Mercado del East Los.  Everyone should go there at least once -- if only for the dueling mariachis.

BDL

 

Oh WOW, BDL.  For a brief moment,  I thought I was looking at a pic of my own pot rack,  and wondering "how did that get there?"  I have a very similar bowl, surrounded by other very similar accessories, all hanging in front of my kitchen window.  I bought my copper bowl at a yard sale,  embarrassingly cheap,  but it's solid copper and reasonably thick too.  It's really lovely.